Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you do n't know the difference between a fork and a desperado , we hope our brief guide below will help you understand some of terms you are likely to hear in the coming weeks . |
| 2 | With the slightest of limps I walked to reception to find Kenneth waiting , and after saying goodbye to Candy , we joined José , waiting behind the wheel of the hotel limo . |
| 3 | Well I think he would 've , he was very fond of children you know . |
| 4 | For tens of pennies it 'll take you to any one of 20 odd bays or villages in the area . |
| 5 | The kangaroo rat is so aware of such sound that even on the darkest of nights it can hear the approaching slither of a hunting rattlesnake . |
| 6 | The thread I have chosen to follow is that of houses I consider to be perfect period pieces or exceptional architectural masterpieces , and hence they are not always conventionally representative of their particular period . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , we do n't have room to print all the hundreds of letters we received . |
| 8 | From the hundreds of letters I have received from adult survivors the message is quite clear : they wish that someone in their childhood had stopped it . ’ |
| 9 | The Bishop of Gloucester , who 's been accused of indecent assault , has issued a public thank you for the hundreds of letters he 's received . |
| 10 | Hundreds of bottles they buried . |
| 11 | Hundreds of pounds you know clear all |
| 12 | But sometimes , because he does n't have hundreds of depots I think he 's not regional , but that 's my own fault . |
| 13 | It was still unthinkable to see him without his sketchbook and pencil , but of the hundreds and hundreds of drawings he made , he gave away many or sold them for a few francs . |
| 14 | DISNEY says it has a minor dispute with a few of the hundreds of contractors it has dealt with on the project . |
| 15 | That Wright is ultimately responsible for handling his short fuse and , to help him do that , think back to the hundreds of games he 's played when there has been no trouble . |
| 16 | I can honestly say that of the many hundreds of queries I have answered where fish were dead/unwell , probably less than 1% were suffering from disease caused by a pathogen ( causative organism ) , and about 5% from probable organic failure ( tumour , heart failure , and the like ) . |
| 17 | There 's hundreds of variations you can come up with , but one thing that influenced me was learning piano in school . |
| 18 | The wire was still there and the bored guards and the roll-call , morning and evening , and the hundreds of faces you grew to hate just because they were a part of the unaltering surroundings . |
| 19 | I had mentioned the unquantifiable public relationships which could be generated during a secondment and argued for the intangible value of the many hundreds of contacts I had made which could not easily be costed in purely fiscal terms . |
| 20 | Using many hundreds of analyses they defined field envelopes each embracing 68% of all relevant data points from the river , beach , aeolian and quiet water deposits . |
| 21 | But , to me and to hundreds of others he was a unique , dashing , elegant , outrageous , witty , beautiful friend — and to share his last weeks , even from a distance , was an inspiration . |
| 22 | Speakers at a rally this afternoon have called for the release of hundreds of prisoners they claim are innocent . |
| 23 | Hundreds of flowers she could n't name , she 'd seen them in her grandmother 's garden , in her mother 's garden , in neglected gardens all over . |
| 24 | From the hundreds of entries we received , 12 winners were finally chosen to represent six regions throughout the UK and you can see the stunning results over the next eight pages … |
| 25 | ‘ I 've lost count of the hundreds of miles I 've covered and it has been pretty hectic . |
| 26 | For hundreds of years it has all been exactly the same . |
| 27 | But the Becks have already started turning lawned areas into borders ready to take the hundreds of plants they 're transferring . |
| 28 | I can tell you this the general public have sent me literally hundreds of cards I have had well wishing cards , I 've also had some letters from the opposition , some of them , to be quite honest , have been disgraceful . |
| 29 | For all but the most simple of products it is advisable to divide the demonstration into two stages . |
| 30 | I had expected it to be best for trenching and shaping in the vertical position , but on all but the softest of timbers it failed to supply a substantial cut . |