Example sentences of "[adj] of [pers pn] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 2 | Perhaps they were afraid of me at first . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't think much of it at first , but then something started to waft around the corridors , ’ shudders Bea . |
| 4 | People did not want to hold hands with either of them at first , but without her red cloak to remind them of sin , they quickly forgot who Izzie was . |
| 5 | ‘ There were only three of us at first , and we were up the field all day , every day . |
| 6 | This famous five have experienced the spectrum of emotions stirred up in many of us by last year 's frightening food-related newspaper headlines . |
| 7 | Michael Abbell worked at the Justice Department for 17 years until 1984 , the last five of them as first the director and later deputy director of the Office of International Affairs . |
| 8 | Kevin was frightened of her at first but she was good and , like him , she was alone with no friends . |
| 9 | Since 1985 , Heidrick and Struggles in London has more than tripled its number of consultants — from five to fifteen — most of them at first new to search and comparatively young . |
| 10 | When the three appeared for school they were wary of her at first but she was able to summon sufficient energy to disguise her lack of it and they were completely at ease before they left for school . |