Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun] of [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all the time telling us about it in that slow , unemotional Norfolk voice of his . |
| 2 | Viktor thought , The keys are clicking in to place in that computer brain of his . |
| 3 | ‘ Master Cook ! ’ he said , ‘ I do n't know what was in that flame pot of yours but it undoubtedly saved the day and many noble lives . |
| 4 | It all chimed in horribly with that waking vision of hers . |
| 5 | Mark and I went down to Yorkshire on Saturday morning to stay with an old University friend of mine and to go to the Bedale Point-to-Point with a group of people . |
| 6 | I have noticed in this puritan America of ours that beautiful women are rarely permitted to be clever . |
| 7 | But when I actually erm got into the social work side of it , and i saw what the needs there were , erm and it was at the particular time too when you know , lots of teachers were sort of being made redundant , or at at least the er the numbers in schools were n't so high . |
| 8 | you see I met an old work mate of mine he said they were at Grantham |
| 9 | ‘ And here comes another lad back of 'em ! ’ |
| 10 | Edgar 's male chauvinism ( though this was a phrase not yet current ) and his expectation that his work was always , would always be of greater importance , than her own — these were aspects of their mutual dissatisfaction , no doubt , although both were , decades later , to concede that Edgar at this time was paying a high psychological price for having renounced his theatrical ambitions ( old Cambridge friends of his already had their names in lights in the West End , while he was a mere house officer ) and that Liz was still suffering from the trauma of confronting her mother with her total , final defection . |
| 11 | I have been told by an old Rochdale colleague of hers that she may have married a doctor and that he thinks she was left a cottage in Tonypandy some time in the mid to late 1960s . |
| 12 | These — this is what this group think of it in terms of some of the pros and cons . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't suppose it was anything to do with that so-called physiology paper of yours , with its introduction culled from a German review article , and results ‘ borrowed ’ from the chief technician 's own private research ? ’ |
| 14 | ( Actually I think I 've still got an old match report of yours somewhere — the game v Chelsea in April ‘ 92 where C*ntona scored That Goal , what a day that was ! ) |
| 15 | the total is different opposite on the scale , instead of all this stuff inside of you , you just let it build up and you let it build up until whoosh and you throw it outside at other people , and that itself that that as well causes physical problems . |
| 16 | The Peak District is a favourite walking area of mine . |
| 17 | If you could ring this polymath pal of yours , Mrs Williams … ? ’ |
| 18 | Mr Bruce Page , of accountancy recruitment specialists Llambias Douglas , said : ‘ All the big firms are suffering equally — just some are better at handling the public relations side of it . ’ |
| 19 | I feel a lively lump inside of me and a need to keep it vital ; to keep on running though I am panting and sweating like a sore animal ; to encase it in life , to keep it moving . |
| 20 | This sparring routine of theirs had grown so familiar that her brain had more or less switched to automatic . |
| 21 | As he gathered her into his arms and pressed his mouth to hers , he had a sudden swift memory of the nights he had lain here in this bed dreaming of her . |
| 22 | But if if you just say consumer protection , you 're not covering the public health side of it awfully well . |
| 23 | Richard saw , with reservations , where his duty lay , and put Dreadnought on the market through the agency of an old RNVR friend of his , who had gone into partnership , on coming out of the forces , as an estate agent in Halkin Street . |
| 24 | This Project Eden of yours : five years and nothing to show for it . |
| 25 | As the summer came I could take the pram along the Hastings promenade , and meet up with an old form mate of mine from school days . |
| 26 | I bet they needed to get some food inside of them . |
| 27 | Labour voters have not changed their minds in such high numbers 83pc of them will still vote Labour and only six per cent have switched to the Tories or to the Liberal Democrats . |
| 28 | ‘ This caravan site of yours , Mr Passmore , is it far from here ? ’ |
| 29 | We see old film footage of him meeting Juliette Greco and Sartre . |
| 30 | I believe she has even phoned an old school friend of mine whom she avowedly dislikes and asked him for the manuscript of a symphony we once composed together . |