Example sentences of "[det] of [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Say only that this of which I speak is pleasing to you . ’ |
| 2 | She does n't understand half of what we say but she listens all the time . |
| 3 | We have n't used or worn half of what we have brought . |
| 4 | But those wo n't , er if we were to take cashing those in now , it would be probably taking half of what we might get for them in the future , and from a business proposition , there is a time , when even if you have money in the bank , there are times , when it would be very advantageous to take long term interest rates , at low interest rates , and I think er er this is er perhaps the best opportunity that we have . |
| 5 | Well that is n't bloody half of what we paid . |
| 6 | As credit is now so central to people 's lives — financing as it does something approaching half of what they buy , other than day-to-day necessities — and as choice of credit arrangements is increasingly diverse and complex , people by the time they leave school should be equipped to deal sensibly with it . |
| 7 | Do n't listen to half of what they say . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | All these actions led to the reduction of oil prices until they dropped to half of what they used to be … |
| 10 | Taking into account both the virtual disappearance of explicit commissions and the shrinking of spreads , it is evident that dealing costs , for the most part , are now appreciably less than half of what they were prior to the reforms of October 1986 . |
| 11 | And that , said the advertiser , was ‘ almost certainly around half of what you pay now ( the total cost of £17,469.12 Will be reduced on early settlement ) . |
| 12 | So virtually half of what you produced would go to the landlord . |
| 13 | ‘ You can live free in my house , and give me half of what you earn . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Alan , I do n't know half of what you 're talking about — people at work and all that- ’ |
| 15 | The world price of tin collapsed in 1985 , plummeting to less than half of what it costs Bolivia to mine it . |
| 16 | Unemployment is still only just half of what it was seven years ago . |
| 17 | half of what it is now |
| 18 | Afterwards she could n't remember half of what she 'd said . |
| 19 | This nun had read passages of some sort to them but Millie had been unable to make out half of what she had said . |
| 20 | Maxim could n't catch half of what she was saying , but it seemed mostly on his side . |
| 21 | She nodded her head vigorously and chattered gaily though I could only understand half of what she said . |
| 22 | With unsympathetic editors on the magazines he usually worked for , half of what he did was found fault with or refused . |
| 23 | In effect it provided for the dismemberment of Abyssinia and the giving to Mussolini of about half of what he had set himself to achieve by conquest . |
| 24 | He eventually sold the properties for £5 million — half of what he originally told shareholders he expected to get for them . |
| 25 | ROS : Half of what he said meant something else , and the other half did n't mean anything at all . |
| 26 | It 's like our Albert , he tells that many jokes I can never remember half of what he tells me . |
| 27 | I suppose I have enough to fill two cottages , so space is at a premium before I have even unpacked half of what I brought . |
| 28 | ‘ So would you have if you 'd had to put up with half of what I 've been through in the past ! |
| 29 | Now I do nt believe everything I read and I only believe half of what I see , but if these words have been uttered by the ‘ poor mans Billy Bremner ’ , then even I think it 's a bit rich ! |
| 30 | Of course they 're all putting their hands up by me see , and Da , I thought David would clock , and he never said a word , I thought he ai n't sussed it , anyway they went on this night out and the girls kept saying , Debbie saying oh Lynn just come , I said I ai n't got no intentions of coming , I said David 's going amongst all the others I 'm not going , so Debbie said why , I said why because David is nothing but a wanker , a lot , along , a lot of the others , she said , she nearly fell off the chair , gordon bennett she said I never thought you , I never realised you felt like that , I said Debbie if you knew half of what I thought you would fall off that chair |