Example sentences of "[num] of [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she said Oh I thought there was supposed to be six of you here today , some did n't turn up . |
| 2 | Although there are only six of us here now , once there were Twelve Royal Houses . ’ |
| 3 | And be about five or six of us left then , and we were just getting ready to get off when we got hit by the second big blast , which caused most of the burns to all of us then . |
| 4 | ‘ Blimey , guv , ’ he said , ‘ there are 'undreds of 'em round 'ere . ’ |
| 5 | In many ways , the tragedy had brought the three of them closer together . |
| 6 | ‘ I won three of them back once . ’ |
| 7 | And I said , If somebody 's serving somebody in the shop and perhaps they you know two of three of them perhaps together , I said , but do n't talk in the shop I said , go through to the back if you want to chat . |
| 8 | She thinks of Dulé , for he beckons to her : they will cross the channel to Oualie and be with him , perhaps , as he has asked , the three of them together again , with Roukoubé as well , and Sycorax will recover . |
| 9 | And there are three of them along here so how many have we got altogether multiplied b well we 've got three add five . |
| 10 | It went on like that , the three of us never quite living together , never wholly apart . |
| 11 | And there were oak trees stood up there ; and it snapped three of 'em off just like snapping a match . |
| 12 | There were ten of them down there , their voices urgent , excited . |
| 13 | say , there are five of them along there . |
| 14 | There must be tens of millions of them out there ! |
| 15 | Renton also discussed the situation with Lord Whitelaw , the deputy leader of the party , who was one of its most widely respected elder statesmen and a person renowned for the loyalty he had shown to Mrs Thatcher . |
| 16 | The only sandgrouse likely to be seen north of the Mediterranean region , and then only when one of its now very infrequent irruptions ( none on a large scale since 1908 ) from Central Asia occurs . |
| 17 | Her latest work of fiction , The Copper Beech ( 1st July , £4.99 ) , which is the Superlead announcing the new Orion Paperbacks list , is a superficially simple book that is in fact one of her most meticulously planned . |
| 18 | ‘ On the couch , I think , ’ he said when she came back with her newest camera , photography being one of her most seriously pursued hobbies . |
| 19 | Today 's chefs have very properly outlawed that preliminary blanching which spelled ruin to so many vegetables — of course there are still those such as celeriac and turnips which may need it — and one of their most fiercely held tenets concerns the brief cooking of fish , in particular of the fragile scallop . |
| 20 | On the day he left , Gould wrote to Captain Washington at the Royal Geographical Society , announcing proudly , ‘ I shall have many novelties to add to science as well as to communicate a great deal respecting their habits since I have already obtained the nests and eggs of 60 species not one of which as far as I am aware have been described . ’ |
| 21 | Look at those paving slabs , we 'll have to take one of them away today . |
| 22 | Perhaps ‘ second-joystick option ’ was the wrong phrase to use , but when joysticks were plugged into both ports , one of them most definitely DID N'T work ! |
| 23 | Her sleeve of care was unravelled all right : her life was a basket of woollen shreds , all shades and textures and not one of them long enough to do anything with . |
| 24 | Give us one of them back then . |
| 25 | And this was one of them as far as the demon was concerned ) . |
| 26 | ‘ I met one of them earlier today . ’ |
| 27 | She says it must be one of them along there . |
| 28 | Get one of them out here in plain clothes and on a civilian motor-bike — better still a moped , it looks more innocent . |
| 29 | One of them out there shall buy us a bottle . |
| 30 | So I put the microchi chip in place the time machine was ready the next day I put one of them down so I typed in ancient Egypt and then I put oh and by the way I wa I 'm called Professor Plop because when I landed in ancient Egypt there was a big plop ! |