Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of [det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes of this he grew breathless with anger and rage and flurried his wings so much that he was hardly able to lift them any more he was so tired . |
| 2 | Unless they of course there were different sorts of that you know even . |
| 3 | A society of extreme altruists , each devoting most of his attention to the welfare of others , would not be the ideal community it might seem ; since each would be poor in self-awareness , he would be still less aware of the actual needs of those he was trying to benefit . |
| 4 | As we saw in the section on deterrence , all the evidence is that the penal system is engaging in a massive overkill operation — which amounts to a massive infringement of the human rights of those it punishes excessively . |
| 5 | A shy and unpretentious woman , she was dominated by her husband , who expected her to organise his home life , act as his hostess , show a picture of domestic bliss to his constituency , listen to him rehearse his speeches , endure his frequent absences , cope with the bruised feelings of those he had insulted and be prepared to be woken up in the middle of the night to hear his account of his part in great events : ‘ Wake up and listen , what I 'm telling you is history ! ’ |
| 6 | I could of roared of laugh when she won when Joyce won that raffle you know , all little bits of this and little bits of that you know , and there were a Christmas pudding on the , er , well you picked what you wanted well |
| 7 | All this went down well enough with the members of the Institute , although it conveniently ignored both the fact that large numbers of those he excoriated had been encouraged into the professions by business parents and that for an entire decade ‘ the Establishment ’ had been elbowed aside by the Thatcher appointments policy . |
| 8 | But frankly it 's not likely to irritate your skin anyway because er you are n't industrial users of this you would only ever touch these chemicals for a very short time so the any possible side effects they might er have on you will be greatly diminished by the fact that you did n't use them very much . |
| 9 | After what seemed like a good twenty minutes of this he took a handful of rice from a gourd at his belt and scattered it over the waters . |
| 10 | After several days of this we were rather bored with the whole thing until one afternoon a yacht came in under sail and anchored near us . |
| 11 | and there 's twenty of them and the , I do n't suppose , they do n't expect me to fill both sides of all them tapes |