Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | how many packets of them mushy peas did you get ? |
| 2 | For a start , there would be a cause of the rain , and further effects of it-a wet garden and so on . |
| 3 | I am told by an ex-employee of ICI that there was a curious example of the effects of it some time back . |
| 4 | The lesson is that art and objects from the past can never be a rival to mass entertainment ; put art in close proximity to wax works , videos , sound effects , smellies , wenches in costume , recreations of ye olden days , and it pales , becomes invisible and irrelevant . |
| 5 | Philip and she spent sixty pounds of it that afternoon on a secondhand gas boiler . |
| 6 | This means reducing your fat intake to three quarters of it current level . |
| 7 | Sometimes , in the middle of a flow , or else at the small mouths or boccas from which the flows emerge , gas venting from the lava flings small glowing gobbets of it short distances up into the air . |
| 8 | and nature of Man — of convincing one 's nerves that the world is full of Misery and Heartbreak , Pain , Sickness and oppression — whereby this Chamber of Maiden-Thought becomes gradually darkened and at the same time on all sides of it many doors are set open — but all dark — all leading to dark passages . |
| 9 | He took a lot more photos of me this morning . |
| 10 | I never got round to showing you the photos of him last time . ’ |
| 11 | However McCann , who got to within 8 seconds of him last Saturday in the Movilla 10 , started very quickly and at the turn , which he reached in 9.30 , he was 10 seconds up on the Banbridge man . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , I still feel the consequences of it one way or another . |
| 13 | Ven uttered , and to her delight confessed , ‘ Well , there was that occasion when , after being disturbed by thoughts of you all night , I rang you at your hotel the next morning in the hope that I had n't disturbed you . ’ |
| 14 | Radio , television and the evening newspaper carried reports of it that day and the morning newspapers carried them next day . |
| 15 | I had hopes of you one time , I would n't mind if you had n't made a success of it , but for God 's sake at least try … |