Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] of [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was so ample that he completely filled one side of the table , and a heavenly smile suffused his round pink face as he said : ‘ My favourite of all the wines is — rose petal . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Quite my favourite of all the Kalman operettas , ’ he said enthusiastically . |
| 3 | I had pictures in my mind of all the sex fantasies we had been through … . |
| 4 | I 'm sitting here at the computer even now , with images flashing into my mind of all the spots I want to go to , but have n't had the opportunity yet . |
| 5 | Miss Braithwaite expressed her appreciation of all the hard work undertaken by the retiring Vice-Chairman , Mrs. Ann McMillan and said how much she regretted that Ann was unable to be present at the meeting because of her admission to hospital . |
| 6 | The exclusion of votes for very small parties is responsible for another slight deviation : it means that — as the figures given at the beginning of this chapter showed — the other patties secure a percentage of seats marginally greater than their percentage of all the votes . |
| 7 | None was more evident than her grasp of all the issues of Government as she answered questions twice a week in the House of Commons . |
| 8 | Alan Bates 's Muse Of Fire , for example , could have been compiled by a computer : its selection of all the biggest blazes in world literature lacks any sense of dramatic propulsion , a shapeless cabaret-set without music . |
| 9 | It had been a difficult time for everyone , but especially Diana , who was perhaps closest to her father of all the children . |
| 10 | Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown told a rally in Edinburgh : ‘ The Labour Party must defend their own use of the particular case Jennifer Bennett , and justify their handling of such an emotive and sensitive issue . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We give you charge of all the matters which may relate to this our command . |
| 12 | You taste of all the sweet things I 've ever imagined . ’ |
| 13 | He may also have obtained from Popes Leo III and Paschal I privileges giving him control of all the monasteries he had acquired . |
| 14 | He had spent some time alone after talking to her father , had changed his clothes and had a shower , trying to clear his mind of all the stuff of history , the political necessities that ruled their lives , the reasons he must lie . |
| 15 | And they like the erm the water , excuse me ! they like the water drained out the site , you know , they like it sort of all the water switched off on , on each van |
| 16 | His surviving letters to Edward Bulwer Lytton , first Baron Lytton [ q.v. ] , his friend of half a century , reveal a warm and enthusiastic personality . |
| 17 | With all his elaborate political machinery — his control of all the tradesmen in the town and of all the town 's six advowsons , his ownership of some two hundred houses each carrying a vote , his absolute control of the Mayor , the corporation and all the corporation offices — the Marquess of Exeter could not be absolutely certain that the remaining voters would not one day oust his candidates . |
| 18 | His neglect of such a sacred duty had scandalised some , even members of the old priesthood , but behind Tutankhamun 's inaction the policies of Horemheb were discerned , and no public protest was raised . |
| 19 | Ultimately , the urge to move on that afflicted so many media people , and Florian more severely than most , would demand satisfaction , but she suspected that Luke would be shrewd enough to tempt him with an offer of his choice of all the other stations in which he had an interest . |
| 20 | His host of many a good evening , Mr. Harden , at Brathay Hall , was set up as an example of one who did not plant enough trees . |
| 21 | All I will say here is that Bukharin was far too sanguine in his treatment of such a transition , even allowing for the fact that it was being treated at a purely abstract level . |
| 22 | He resumes his inventory of all the hit acts he 's signed and the propositions he 's declined from budding Madonnas wanting to sleep their way to the top . |
| 23 | His salary of 300 a year was adequate to his needs but the greater reward was in being a full-time Fascist at last . |
| 24 | It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price . |
| 25 | Can you say what fraction of all the fruit the bananas , pineapples and mangoes together make ? |
| 26 | What fraction of all the fruit are the remaining pawpaws ? |
| 27 | Unfortunately , there are still enormous gaps and matters of controversy in our understanding of both the wide variations in strike activity over time and the wide variations in strike activity between Britain and other countries . |
| 28 | There is no mention in your report of such a thing . ’ |
| 29 | Within a week of launching the Oxfam Cold Front Appeal we reached our target of half a million coats and jumpers . |