Example sentences of "of [pron] [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | both of whom phoned in this afternoon . |
| 2 | By the next day , there were three angels keeping vigil by her bed , one of them clad in black applying cold cloths to her brow . |
| 3 | On the far side they came to the Sierra de Quareca , hills which , though not particularly high , did give the party — many of them clad in heavy metal cuirasses and leg-armour — some relief from the steamy , insect-ridden heat of the lowlands . |
| 4 | At the beginning of the twentieth century Freud wrote about sexuality in children , which was , at that time , an original contribution to the understanding of human beings and the problems many of them developed in later adult life . |
| 5 | The cloudburst switched itself off as abruptly as it had started , and the moon , peering momentarily out from an ink-black cloudscape , showed a coastal desert of pure white sand backed by low hills of chemical-green and violent reds , cactus everywhere and trucks parked on the dirt verge , most of them painted in livid crimson on white — Optimista , Primero de Mayo , La Virgen . |
| 6 | Both of them smashed in one jump |
| 7 | The differing styles of these articles mean they are not all suited to publication in similar outlets , but it is hoped that unlike past years ' winners we shall see all of them published in some form or other in the coming year . |
| 8 | There was some of them billeted in private houses , and we just had a two r bedroom house out at Whale Park a Peedie bungalow . |
| 9 | ‘ Five years it took them , the first tae of them spent in these waters , so Ah would guess Darwin 's first tentative thoughts about the origins of species started here . ’ |
| 10 | The casualness , and implicit disvaluation of her contained in that form , are exposed by her reply in verse : Even after her thirty-line speech of pathos and wifely love , describing his disturbed dreams , when Hotspur answers it is in the verse of public business , ignoring all that she has said : ‘ What ho ! |
| 11 | A description of him written in 1806 states : |
| 12 | At an identification parade one of the police officers at the scene identified TJ , although his description of him differed in several ways from TJ 's true description . |
| 13 | ‘ Makes no difference in this case Lofty , ’ interrupted Yanto , quietly trying to defuse the situation ; a sturgeon is a royal fish , and all of 'em caught in this country must be offered to the King , that 's the law . ’ |
| 14 | I would be chary of anything caught in these murky waters . |
| 15 | You do n't have to be artistic for this kind of work and the stitches used are the basic ones that many of us learned in primary school , chain stitch , lazy daisy stitch and French knots . |
| 16 | However , on behalf of many of my constituents — I am sure that this is true for many other people around the country — I should like to stress that , although none of us thought in 1979 that we would be discussing this situation today , as a result of it many of our constituents have received a quality of life far superior to that which they might otherwise have had . |