Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] of [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when I said I was family — well , yes , I know it was n't true but it seemed near enough the truth to use to persuade them neither of them would give her away . ’ |
| 2 | Some of them some of them give a lot of details , I mean this gives a lot of detail there . |
| 3 | You know I get things now , I just have to throw them some of them . |
| 4 | Well they had a particularly bad time many of them lost absolutely everything and now they 're protesting cos the Lloyds people are only coming up with a nine hundred million pound rescue package that might give them some of them back half of what they invested . |
| 5 | Yeah , you sometimes get them some of them look as if there 's , I du n no vinta vintage Newcastle Brown you know cobwebs and dust on them int there and spiders ' webs on them . |
| 6 | Some of them some of them , you know , slight change . |
| 7 | They bought half excuse me half of it and they lived in the basement , then the other half came up for sale so Peter bought the whole lot then |
| 8 | Tell me some of them and |
| 9 | Can you get me some of them boots ? |
| 10 | to tell me some of them best , I said are there any best |
| 11 | Just give me some of them . |
| 12 | But though he had taken all my poetic power , and gave me some of his in return , he still remained himself , his own man , his own poet . |
| 13 | Is yours one of them ? |
| 14 | Dyson looked at old Eddy , head down behind the dusty newspaper files , nothing visible of him but his tousled white hair . |
| 15 | The slow dance was quickening , swirling them back and back through the darkening woods and stabbing gorse of memory to the sheep trying to escape the cold night and , beyond that , to the ways in which each of them , Forest girl and Forest boy , had first joined body with another . |
| 16 | Undoubtedly each of these aims could be furthered by standing rules ; but their are probably other ways in which each of them could be achieved . |
| 17 | The conceptual requirements are to be clear and exact in our use of these and subsidiary terms , and to confront and seek to resolve the many and often contentious value issues which each of them raises . |
| 18 | When you have both finished , talk about them and think of ways in which each of them could be improved . |
| 19 | I think it unnecessary to go through those cases , or to examine the particular grounds on which each of them was decided . |
| 20 | The ‘ Chelsea Diagnostic Mathematics Tests ’ ( Hart et al. , 1984 ) , which are based on this research , were designed to measure pupils ' levels of understanding and identify particular errors which each of them make . |
| 21 | Chatterton , Fagg , Fishbane and Glastonbury were huddled together in the Smoking Room , from which each of them had been extracted for a brief conversation with Milton . |
| 22 | God 's warning to the Israelites as they embarked on their conquest of the Promised Land can be applied easily to the renewal of mind which each of us should experience . |
| 23 | The conclusion which each of us independently has reached in this court on the vital part of his story is that he was clearly telling the truth … we see no justification for disturbing the verdicts which in our view were entirely correct . ’ |
| 24 | P. T. Geach , Mental Acts , refers to the Cartesian idea ‘ that introspection can give the word ‘ I ’ a special sense , which each of us can learn on his own account' . |
| 25 | Bentham combined his utilitarian ethical theory with a hedonistic psychological theory according to which each of us necessarily seeks to maximise his own happiness . |
| 26 | In contrast to this , according to the emotivist thesis , the typical cause and effect of a statement like ‘ Personal affection is a great good ’ is not any kind of genuine belief , which could be true or false , but an emotional attitude of favouring personal affection , which each of us may find ourselves either sharing or otherwise , but which we can not properly call true or false ; it therefore has primarily an emotive rather than a descriptive meaning . |
| 27 | Essentially , then , Spinoza supposes that the moral virtues , and life in accordance with the demands of a sensible morality , provide both the essential background , and a large part of the content , of a human life in which each of us lives their own personal life to the full . |
| 28 | ‘ This is one way in which each of us can make a difference now ’ |
| 29 | Pledging for the Planet ( see next page ) is one way in which each of us can actually make a difference right now . |
| 30 | There are perhaps two things upon which each of us is the indisputable world expert , firstly the function of our own bowels and hence those of everyone else and secondly the causes of and treatment for addiction . |