Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You want me to go jumping out of Dorniers again at five thousand feet in the dark like last time over Ireland and you try to hand me that kind of bollocks . ’ |
| 2 | You ought to save them wooden type of things for it . |
| 3 | Look , can you give me another couple of hours ? |
| 4 | so and erm , and still my total number of calls come to seventy odd pounds but then , over above that is rental and then VAT |
| 5 | In my hypothetical discussion of cheetahs and gazelles I said that cheetahs , unlike the weather , had a tendency as the generations go by to become ‘ better hunters ’ , to become more severe enemies , better equipped to kill gazelles . |
| 6 | And I needed my dry bed of Bibles . |
| 7 | What will give you that extra bite of interest is something like — and here I stop and open my indexed notebook of Victoriana ( and I advise you to keep a similar book for your chosen period ) and I find under " B " : boiled mutton on the sideboard for breakfast . |
| 8 | In my ordinary use of words to stand for sensations my words are ‘ tied up with my natural expressions of sensation ’ . |
| 9 | Though my early dream of cones directly related to moulds and maintained in course of 180° rotation had to be abandoned . |
| 10 | What really sets this up as a fraud and complete load of tripe , is the ridiculous assumption on the part of the forger , that my entire squad of players would happily sign a document whose sole aim is to get me removed from the manager 's seat . |
| 11 | ‘ I am in my second year of articles at the Prudential Corporation plc — one of the UK 's leading companies and the largest financial services business outside the high street banks . |
| 12 | I made a bad mistake on my second lot of commercials — for Skol — by letting myself be persuaded by other people against my own instincts , so from then on I was very firm about what I wanted to do and what I was prepared to do , and it 's made my life easy . |
| 13 | My picked man of countries : ‘ My dear sir , ’ — |
| 14 | He 'd had my bald account of events over the telephone in the morning , his first knowledge of what had happened . |
| 15 | Let's have a look , then , at my little circuit of friends just as the calendar tells us that a new year is dawning … |
| 16 | Anyway , if I am to maintain my hectic schedule of conquests , I can do without the interference of these guys taking up the time and energy of foxy babes with mere talk . |
| 17 | ‘ I would have loved to join the elitist few who have made 500 League appearances and , but for my spell in the Conference and my long list of injuries , I probably would have done it , ’ added McDonough , who netted 89 goals in 460 league games . |
| 18 | Ideally , I 'd have my preferred gauge of 45–105s fitted , which would further attenuate this brightness . |
| 19 | Once on board , I took a look below , where many men folk were as comfortably spread on the saloon sofas as circumstances would permit , and finding a vacant space sufficiently large to stretch my full complement of feet and inches on , I tried to fall asleep before we got into rough water ; but with the first movement of the screw , I was on my feet and on deck , having a view of the hills round Gairloch as they slept in the mist of night ere the faint streaks of dawn disturbed their repose . |
| 20 | He was a tourist peering over a painter 's shoulder as he scanned my unread stack of books . |
| 21 | My small circle of friends stuck with me , choosing to support me and risking their own popularity . |
| 22 | Damien , 18 : ‘ My first memory of nuns is getting lines at school for making scones instead of buns in cookery ! |
| 23 | My first experience of airsports had n't been a good one . |
| 24 | My first choice of defenders from what we 've got are O'Leary and Fairclough . |
| 25 | The quantity and variety of reading and writing , the mathematical ideas and vocabulary , the competence shown by many children in instrumental music , physical education , art and light crafts would have amazed my first class of children , and their teachers too . |
| 26 | I I eat I do n't usually take my first lot of tablets till sort of around dinner time . |
| 27 | I never had a TV set until I bought one with my first lot of royalties and the only way we got the record player was because my dad won about £40 on the pools . |
| 28 | Just suppose that creature eluded my first stream of bullets and got to me before I could kill it … |
| 29 | They both limit their coverage to Britain , and this has influenced my own selection of examples ; similar themes to those discussed do occur in other parts of the world . |
| 30 | In my own survey of visitors to the British Museum in which teams of five interviewers worked for four separate weeks interviewing at the museum entrances I made sure that I was present for at least the first day of each survey and was available by phone during the rest of the time . |