Example sentences of "[pron] of [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age . |
| 2 | With that , careless of his obvious amazement that someone of her slender weight could not only pack such a punch but dare to do so , she spun rapidly round and raced back the way she had come . |
| 3 | She needs someone of her own age to talk with — maybe even to quarrel with at times , ’ said Elizabeth Mowbray with a smile . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're a surprisingly strong swimmer for someone of your slight build . ’ |
| 5 | Although to someone of your tender years I suppose I do seem quite old and decrepit . ’ |
| 6 | I have no doubt that a brilliant article will appear but I am not at all fooled that someone of your peculiar talents would either be asked or would agree to such an easy exercise . |
| 7 | ‘ You know you 've been wanting to meet someone of your own age . ’ |
| 8 | As for finding someone of your own age , well , you do n't need to spend your time looking round for someone to replace him with . |
| 9 | My mates think he 's too young for me and that I should find someone of my own age . |
| 10 | Mary Read , who had first worked in New York in 1916 with the Sunshine Girls , endeared herself to reporters by telling them of her great love of the city . |
| 11 | The ever-cautious Margaret Beckett is no longer on the left by any definition but her own , but she knows that she can not win the votes of a majority of MPs , let alone constituency members , without reminding them of her leftwing roots . |
| 12 | His arrogance and bullying alienated the Imperial family ; and in their desperation they called in the armies of the Hindu Mahratta Confederacy from the Deccan to help rid them of their troublesome Vizier . |
| 13 | In the long-run , this money illusion will disappear as workers come to realise that price inflation is depriving them of their perceived increase-in real income . |
| 14 | THE TORIES owe their victory to a swing to Labour scarcely half that required to deprive them of their overall majority . |
| 15 | When the wind dropped an occasional rumble in the distance reminded them of their first taste of war 's excitements . |
| 16 | The obvious unfairness of such poverty side by side with conspicuous affluence reminded them of their vulnerable parents back home . |
| 17 | Chelsea moved swiftly after Saturday 's cruciate knee ligament injury to Paul Elliott , which has robbed them of their defensive kingpin for a year . |
| 18 | The tendency to render horrific incidents of this sort into funny tales or ‘ atrocity stories ’ ( Dingwall 1977 ) , told ritualistically within the occupational culture of the station , is a further attempt to strip them of their emotional hold . |
| 19 | All I intend to do is rob them of their chief copywriter . ’ |
| 20 | That had seemed enough to placate the deputies , who are living in fear of a referendum being called on dissolving the Congress and depriving them of their privileged status . |
| 21 | Perhaps one day an Ayrshire school or other organisation will pursue the theme and bring the peoples of the old and new worlds closer to each other by reminding them of their common bonds . |
| 22 | But that does n't deprive them of their fair share of malignant little blisters full of pop to inflict on their potential audience , who may soon be buying their T-shirts and phlegm samples by the lorry load . |
| 23 | But they had a lively fear that enclosure might rob them of their valuable rights — rights which made a real difference to their standard and their mode of living — in the interests of the large freeholders and a corporation known to be corrupt . |
| 24 | He had taken a group of talented individuals and moulded them into a superb team , ridding them of their old factions and weaknesses , and showing the disbelievers that black men were every bit as good as white . |
| 25 | They would appear from time to time and taunt the old couple , reminding them of their past lives and the failures or mistakes which had brought them to the castle ( though never detailing them — neither Quiss nor Ajayi knew what the other had done to justify sending them here . |
| 26 | The British were suspicious of the loyalty of headmen , and soon stripped them of their judicial powers . |
| 27 | As Wood and Wood comment , ‘ relating ideas to their social context ’ far from ‘ depriving them of their universal meaning ’ in fact ‘ rescues them from the emptiness of ethereal abstractions which have no human meaning at all ’ ( ibid. p. x ) . |
| 28 | It is intended mainly , although not exclusively , for young people and informs them of their basic rights . |
| 29 | As in Between , the binary definitions on which structuralist theory is founded receive parodic treatment which voids them of their original function and uses them for the purpose of telling the tale(s) of the novel . |
| 30 | ‘ You take men from their homes or their chosen occupations , you confine them in insalubrious conditions upon a wholly inadequate diet , you subject them to the tyranny of bosun 's mates , you expose them to unimagined perils ; what is more , you defraud them of their meagre food , pay and allowances — everything but this sacred rum of yours . |