Example sentences of "[adj] of [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been rioting down by the docks , some said , but no one knew exactly where ; and Mrs Norris swore they were throwing the dead into mass graves , and half of them good Catholics without the last rites . |
| 2 | Three-quarters of the store 's 164 staff , half of them full time , will lose their jobs . |
| 3 | I found it hard to picture what kind of landscape those statistics might have shaped , until I opened the Ordnance Survey map to find half of it coloured green with a great blue stain in the centre . |
| 4 | I watched half of it last week , as soon as you told me off I I put it off . |
| 5 | ‘ I come up with some of me 'ome-made sausage and onion pie fresh out of me oven . |
| 6 | I mean , some of me favourite TV programmes start at 8 p.m . |
| 7 | It depends , some of them bigger Vauxhalls see they do n't hold their money . |
| 8 | Tiguary , at the north tip of the island , could muster about five hundred men ; from the length of the northern shore , the chiefs there could raise another four hundred ; on Oualie , Dulé could promise a force nearly two hundred strong of a mixed crowd of men , a core of maroons from islands in the archipelago colonised already , some redlegs , or tallow men , renegades to their own people and the more ardent to fight for that very apostasy ( some of them former prisoners and others who had been press-ganged into sailing service ) . |
| 9 | I 'm glad I 'm out and I 'm glad that I never see some of them bloody people again |
| 10 | That 's a making some of them fourteen feet long now . |
| 11 | In my pastoral ministry I have met so many people , some of them convinced Evangelicals , who believe in justification by faith with their heads , yet are condemned by their hearts . |
| 12 | The restoration is taking place in public , so you can actually see the volunteer restorers , some of them ex-Vickers employees , in action . |
| 13 | The Renault was surrounded by guns , some of them automatic weapons . |
| 14 | However , Leech took over the site and in 1991 won permission for 44 more homes , some of them two-storey houses . |
| 15 | WITH the new season getting underway and Christmas beginning to loom , there has been a plague of books clogging up RW&P 's mailing system , some of them annual publications , others one-offs . |
| 16 | Takes some of them that way . |
| 17 | The photos do not include very many which have not been seen before , some of them many times ; and captions are virtually innocent of any identification or discussion of the uniforms and personal equipment illustrated , which is puzzling . |
| 18 | People came from far and near to see the wonders they wrought , and eventually , like the Myrcans , some of them accepted service with the lords of Minginish . |
| 19 | Apparently some of them nervous wrecks . |
| 20 | She was going to have her husband was in khaki as a territorial and her and her bridesmaid was going to have khaki frocks to be some of them great velvet frocks . |
| 21 | Most of this is tied up in grants , salaries and existing programmes , some of them five years long . |
| 22 | Para hoy ! ’ — and the blind beggars and cripples crouched and complained , some of them small children left squatting on a bit of cardboard and bawling their heads off . |
| 23 | Some of them gathered firewood , others drew water . |
| 24 | Police have interviewed sixteen hundred people — some of them fellow walkers -in their search for the killers . |
| 25 | Periods of peace alternated with conflicts , some of them minor border skirmishes , others quite major clashes . |
| 26 | In the winter he plays with some of them most weeks , either at Oswestry or Aberdovey , where he has a mobile home close to the first tee . |
| 27 | The carefully assembled figures , some of them 40 centimetres high when complete , exploited the same colour and texture contrasts between polished gold and carved and polished ivory that were achieved in the large chryselephantine ( literally ‘ gold and ivory ’ ) statues of classical Greece . |
| 28 | In Italy a few famous and ancient republics — Venice , Genoa , Lucca — continued to exist ; and in some of them republican government , even in the highly oligarchical form which had prevailed in these small States for centuries , continued to arouse genuine loyalty . |
| 29 | There are philosophers , some of them inclined to Kant 's doctrine that we impose the category of causation on reality , some of them freer spirits , who think or at any rate say differently of causation and of nomic connection generally-in a phrase , that it is part of the mental order . |
| 30 | Immigrants , some of them Indian Tamils , arrived to work on the new estates . |