Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the thought of her that had drawn me back to the Lodge with my dream , and if this odd enterprise had any meaning at all it must lie , I believed , somewhere between the three of us . |
| 2 | Yeah it 's like with me , I mean of course do n't forget that I 've got a good two hundred pounds to come on about the fifth of December from the British Legion 's savings . |
| 3 | Was n't that implicit in whatever it was which was going on between the two of them ? |
| 4 | ‘ Maybe this is an old-fashioned viewpoint , but last night I thought something fairly important went on between the two of us … ? ’ |
| 5 | I was happy in that I felt that I had paid him back a little for the thousands of hours he had spent at West London Stadium , stopwatch in hand , urging us all on to greater things . |
| 6 | It seemed that the Bangor girl had timed her late surge to perfection , but Martin held on for the closest of wins . |
| 7 | However , he would n't be surprised if it was announced at DECUS in Cannes in September and first shipments came right after the first of the year . |
| 8 | Was n't a weekend enough for the two of you , Maria ? ’ |
| 9 | Surely the place was big enough for the two of them ? |
| 10 | My two brothers have worked for my father all their lives and there is n't really enough for the three of us to do . |
| 11 | He knew that if Silas wished to marry , the place was more than large enough for the three of you . |
| 12 | It did not take long for the two of them to agree that cost-cutting and restructuring were required . |
| 13 | The men who obey their party 's call in the House of Lords do so for the highest of motives . |
| 14 | Her poor academic record was traded in for the sharpest of wits , her gaucherie for poise . |
| 15 | It was his pick-up and feed from a scrum which sent David Wright in for the first of his tries and then the No. 8 charged over from a similar situation to grab the lead on the stroke of half-time . |
| 16 | Gregor Townsend later managed to pass to the referee — clad in near identical colours to the Scots — for the Samoans to plunder ball and scuttle in for the first of their three tries , though it might have been more had we not seen defensive heroics typified by a timely tackle on Leilane Une by Derek Turnbull . |
| 17 | Alistair , Wendy and Anna come in for the worst of it . |
| 18 | Oh , Vincent 's one , eh Roger 's probably about the next best man , better of the two of us that 's why . |
| 19 | The first of July will no doubt be much like the thirtieth of June — such is the tragedy of Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | Michael Ramsey qualified only under the first of those epithets . |
| 21 | It was only with the greatest of difficulty that the League could be persuaded to do its job in Danzig . |
| 22 | And all apparently with the greatest of ease . |
| 23 | Even Signe had been a little nervous about that , especially with the four of us inside it , for the ice would not last a lot longer . |
| 24 | The man holding Connelly 's arm pushed it forward , forcing it down onto the largest of the electric rings , holding it there . |
| 25 | So I think that what he has done is to try and meet the concerns which your Lordships have have expressed er i in second reading My Lords er I did think if I might say so with the greatest of respect for the Noble Lord , Lord Harris of Greenwich whom I admire en enormously and not for er only for his views which erm depending upon what the views are er that it depends upon my extended admiration |
| 26 | So with the greatest of pleasure . |
| 27 | Sorta linking this in with the Manc of the Day stuff … who remembers the BBC2 program that ran nearly half the season … |
| 28 | ‘ You are all the same , ’ I had said — reducing her from an individual to a stereotype , lumping her in with the worst of the cherry berets . |
| 29 | sing along with the best of them . |
| 30 | El grip has been discarded , along with the last of the Band-Aids . |