Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat with a tomato juice in front of me for some time straining my ears to hear what Nigel was saying . |
| 2 | And one of them to some extent has has has already been discussed . |
| 3 | Since all goods are donated , most of them of high quality coming from the more affluent within and outwith the parish , charges for them can be minimal so providing a social service as well as a subsidy towards the hall expenses . |
| 4 | As Richard Whalley wrote to his sister in 1624 , many quite wealthy local gentlemen : ‘ had opposed their parents … consumed their whole estates , even to one foot of ground , five of them with much ado to get winding sheets ; some died under hedges ’ . |
| 5 | This autobiography has nothing to say of courtship , but that , as Dr Vincent has suggested , could well be because working-class autobiographers did not judge it a subject their readers wanted to know about , and many of them in any case lacked the command of an emotional language to describe their feelings . |
| 6 | If this is so , there must be a facility for holding portions of text in parallel on screen , for altering either of them in any way desired , and for moving all or part out of one text and into the other . |
| 7 | The prompt action by South Pacific countries to deal with the drift-net plague provided a marked contrast to the situation in the North Pacific high seas , where the US had been dragging its heels as the Asian drift-net fleets continued to pillage the salmon , tuna , and squid resources , and kill tens of thousands of marine mammals and hundreds of thousands of sea birds , many of them in Alaskan fisheries waters . |
| 8 | In the end , this passion of his for generating paper got to be so ridiculous that we had T-shirts made up , with the DEA logo and OPERATION MAKAKOPI in big letters across the chest . |
| 9 | Would you believe that the sight of her in that condition made me feel differently about her ? |
| 10 | Livingstone , a 34-year-old PE teacher said : ‘ Kevin and I broke away from another four runners around the halfway mark and I got the measure of him with 200 metres remaining he did n't seem to have anything left . |
| 11 | Doing his best to stay awake , he chatted to Mills until satisfied that the other was convinced of his academic credentials and then , to get rid of him before Syrian George arrived to transcribe the night 's tapes and give the game away , sent him over to see Hurley , who wanted to know if Mills , in the course of his travels in and out of Lebanon for Newsweek , would like to shoot a few pictures for the DEA . |
| 12 | Men were to talk of it for many years to come . |
| 13 | It 's mainly for adults , but the Home Office is considering using part of it for young people awaiting trial or sentence.It 's that potential for criminal cross fetilisation that 's worrying the Howard League for Penal Reform . |
| 14 | Although parts of this tradition have been examined in great detail , some of the most important aspects of it for this theme have received little attention . |
| 15 | There was a bench at one side of it with empty tea cups on it and some comic papers . |
| 16 | At first Daedalus sought a lubricating oil freezing at about 0°C , with some idea of boiling tons of it in vast kettles set up near ski slopes . |
| 17 | The first use of it in British diplomacy seems to have been by the Paris embassy in December 1852 : by the middle of the following year the missions in Vienna , Berlin and Florence could also communicate in this way with London , and from 1878 British diplomatic telegrams were numbered in the same way as despatches . |
| 18 | In the course of ordinary domestic , family and work-place life , each of us voluntarily gives our name and address to a wide range of agencies , authorities and individuals , usually in expectation of a service ; in addition , of course , we are each of us under statutory obligations to give personal details to agencies of central and local government , whether as employed persons , voting citizens , rate-or-tax-payers or licensees ( of TV , dog , car , etc ) . |
| 19 | When you think that each person produces roughly 21 lbs of rubbish per day and there are 55 million of us on this island using non-returnable bottles and indestructible plastic containers , it is not difficult to imagine the mountains of refuse that we shall have to deal with somehow . |
| 20 | The complex also has a variety of restaurants , and a disco bar where those of us with any energy left after a hard day 's sport were able to relax the night away ! |
| 21 | Those of us with sensitive noses caught the rank whiff . |
| 22 | The training was not very comprehensive and was really only intended as an introduction to the cutters , but we all enjoyed ourselves as I recall , although a few of us with previous experience considered ourselves as veterans . |
| 23 | Many of us at that time welcomed the fact that the government was taking stock of public opinion , and was t making the effort to review the , the , the N H S. |
| 24 | We 've already reviewed the SoundBlaster Pro — indeed most of us at Practical PC have one in our machines — and know it to be more or less the industry standard for PC sound . |
| 25 | Most of us at any age enjoy a good chat , but in how many Homes do you see small groups of residents talking to each other ? |
| 26 | All of us at this time began to understand what was meant by the scripture : ‘ Zeal for your house consumes me . ’ |
| 27 | Yeah it 's about ten of us at this party put the bottle in the middle and spin it and whoever the the open ends comes at is the the previous spinner 's got ta kiss that . |
| 28 | The back is a delicate instrument , and so finely tuned that nearly everyone of us at some time has experienced some sort of back problem . |
| 29 | Below are a few tips from all of us at RUNNING Magazine to help you as the hours count down . |
| 30 | There could be many glorious months in front of us before that time comes . ’ |