Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll swap er , midi hi-fi system and that for her first prize . |
| 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 | Takes some of them that way . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Some of them gathered firewood , others drew water . |
| 11 | Periods of peace alternated with conflicts , some of them minor border skirmishes , others quite major clashes . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So so that 's I 'll give you some of them this time |
| 14 | Most of the rest moved to Loch Laggan , after charges of trespass were brought against some of them last year . |
| 15 | ‘ Even I could n't see some of them last week . |
| 16 | We could put under there to hang some bits and pieces up , some of them little sticker things . |
| 17 | " I make the tree stand up , if you let me make some of them little colour things . " |
| 18 | ‘ There are plenty of juniors — some of them national standard — already participating in the Centre 's programmes . ’ |
| 19 | But yeah , but the pure orange I would n't dare to touch Cos they 're some of them canned orange drinks are |
| 20 | Some of it is amusing , some of it pretentious drivel . |
| 21 | I ca n't speak for the others , but I do some of it each hour . |
| 22 | And he construed from exchanges with others that though they might talk confidently about their childhood and adolescence , much of it was rumour and conjecture ; some of it pure fabrication . |
| 23 | A year ago Japan held an international meeting on aid for Mongolia , which produced pledges amounting to some $120m in credits and aid , some of it emergency assistance to keep Mongolia 's lights on ( literally ) . |
| 24 | I 'm sure some of you last year or least last week or even last month , read about the black sack that had all the wonderful jewels in it that came into a charity shop and I think it 's a lesson for us all is n't it , not not to miss anything in a black sack , Jacqui . |
| 25 | If you ca n't spell and some of you last week even on Monday we because there were numbers of boys away we had that odd test . |
| 26 | To some of us Christian Aid Week means treats like home-made bread and ‘ date chews ’ for tea . |
| 27 | In any event , I think I put this to you financial status , okay , so you 've got a job and you 've got er er a reasonable income , what financial status straightforward thing that financial status does n't say what your outgoings are . |
| 28 | So house style for both newspapers I mean Brian pointed to , out some to you this morning . |
| 29 | These occasions , so far as I could tell , brought neither of us any pleasure . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , her sparing detail is invariably more fully indicative of social change than that of her more prolix contemporaries . |