Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [det] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon . |
| 2 | Tremayne would doubtless have lent me some of the quarter-advance due at the end of the month but my lack was my own choice , and as long as I could survive as I was , I would n't ask . |
| 3 | Some of the material I have n't seen , of course , because the government has n't even shown me all of the material . |
| 4 | Eventually , most of his estates in Northumberland were entailed upon the Percy family , who may indeed have advanced him some of the money he needed in 1332 . |
| 5 | And in his 36 years in the profession , this approach has landed him several of the hottest potatoes going : campaigning for the British Institute proposals from the Scottish side ; merging his firm Thomson McLintock with Peats ; introducing graduate intake only at the Scottish Institute ; working on the Likierman report on professional liability ; and , last but by no means least , heading up the then newly-formed APB at a time when , in the public view , auditing was becoming increasingly discredited . |
| 6 | The familiar story of the artists ' model ( female ) sitting for hours , days , even weeks on end , for a ( male ) artist , has brought us some of the great ‘ nudes ’ in art history . |
| 7 | I 've given her some of the Veronal her doctor prescribed and she 's gone to bed . |
| 8 | The commitment which the new proprietors are bringing to the enormous task of totally renovating and modernizing Low Birk Hatt is patently obvious For years they have denied themselves many of the luxuries they would otherwise have been easily able to afford because they both knew that one day they would need the capital to spend on the kind of home they both dreamed about . |
| 9 | ‘ We asked for ordinary Russians , but the embassy must have misunderstood and sent us some of the country 's creme de la creme . |