Example sentences of "of [pron] [prep] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've got no sighting of her after first thing Saturday morning . ’ |
| 2 | Derby when just run out of it for third place by Fly Smasher . |
| 3 | Consequently I was very interested to read the article ‘ Tower of Babel ’ by Tania V. Guha ( May/June 1992 ) since I realised that I could now without too much struggle understand most of it , or perhaps I should more truthfully say about 80 per cent of it on first reading . |
| 4 | Indeed , if I had thought that , I would no doubt have been disabused of it by last night 's debate , to which my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State , the hon. Member for Maidstone ( Miss Widdecombe ) so ably replied . |
| 5 | In the centre of the piece was a carving of a shoemaker resisting four shaggy devils who were dragging him from the embraces of what at first Athelstan thought was a young lady but , on looking closer , -realised that with his tail and close-cropped hair , it was a depiction of a male prostitute . |
| 6 | At one end of this seeming arcane map or game-board an enormous plascrystal bowl held thousands of what at first sight appeared to be bloodshot ochreous eyeballs . |
| 7 | As the number of counts increases the more fortunate of the continuing candidates are to be observed making their bizarre progress to victory by acquiring , like Ruari Quinn , miscellaneous parcels of votes of anything but first preference . |
| 8 | This famous five have experienced the spectrum of emotions stirred up in many of us by last year 's frightening food-related newspaper headlines . |