Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Probably it 's one of the strange things you pick up , ’ he said , quoting her . |
| 2 | Lochinver was a magnet , largely because of the strange mountains I knew to be in its vicinity , and I longed to go there . |
| 3 | We will not include the value of any message or information , but we will give sympathetic consideration to your request for a refund of the reasonable costs you have had in making enquiries about a lost or damaged postal packet . |
| 4 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 5 | By the time you read this there will certainly be 200 or more routes , and although many of these will be big numbers , there is certainly the potential for more instant classics in the middle grades on one of the friendliest crags I 've ever visited . |
| 6 | One of the wisest criteria we can apply to any of the claims made for the Holy Spirit and any of the teaching about the Spirit which is being advanced from all sides today is this : does it glorify Christ ? |
| 7 | And now it was coming true , because he was smiling … and she decided there and then that it was one of the nicest smiles she had ever seen . |
| 8 | Joseph Gill , John Pinney 's hard-drinking cousin , lived as near by as caretaker ; Peggy Marsh , described by Dorothy as ‘ one of the nicest girls I ever saw ’ , arrived after a month to help in running the enormous house ; and from the beginning Wordsworth and Dorothy were preoccupied with caring for a child not yet three years old called Basil Montagu . |
| 9 | And I believe them to be the some of the nicest maps I 've ever seen . |
| 10 | If you are using a thicker yarn , particularly a fancy one , then some of the nicest fabrics I 've seen were ones where you 'd hardly suspect the presence of a punchcard . |
| 11 | In contrast Ralph Shergold who took Standard Four was not only a splendid teacher but also one of the nicest men I have ever known . |
| 12 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 13 | But Guy Sterne is one of the nicest men I know . |
| 14 | He 's one of the nicest men I 've ever met in my life . |
| 15 | Pizza is not one of the lowest-calorie dishes you might order , but ounce-for-ounce it can be quite healthy if made with the right ingredients . |
| 16 | Jeff Ritcher , my choreographer , has spent most of the thirteen years he 's worked on me with his head in his hands crying with laughter or frustration . |
| 17 | Like everyone else , teachers may be unaware of the prejudiced views they hold and admitting their prejudice can be a very painful process . |
| 18 | In five of the six companies it was found that the planning department could be involved in special projects on an ad hoc basis . |
| 19 | Llanelli 's second try , a disarmingly easy one by Steve Bowling on the blind side of a scrum-five , was of more modest proportions and if Jeff Bird had kicked more than one of the six chances he had the conclusion would by half-time have been foregone . |
| 20 | In goodwill tours of the Six Counties he has been heard to ask for alcohol-free lager and other exotic drinks . |
| 21 | ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’ |
| 22 | After the passing of the Six Articles he sent her back to Germany . |
| 23 | You might , for example , inquire after Richard Dunwoody , whose Becher 's Brook fall on the much-fancied Brown Windsor was just one of the six times he hit the ground during the three-day meeting . |
| 24 | Beginning with ‘ La Turquie ’ in L'Europe galante , in which he set out to portray ‘ as far as was possible on the stage … the passionate nature of Sultanas ’ , he associated E major with the emotion of jealousy on four of the six occasions he employed it . |
| 25 | Throughout , the legislators concerned will be subject to a great deal of explicit lobbying , and will be aware of the political debts they are expected to settle through the budget , as well as the importance that their decisions may have for their own political futures . |
| 26 | These are but a few of the self-created problems we 've seen around the festivals . |
| 27 | You should see her doing her impersonation of him ; one of the funniest things I 've ever seen . ’ |
| 28 | It 's one of the funniest things I 've heard for Oh , minutes ! |
| 29 | At his best , he was one of the funniest storytellers you ever heard . |
| 30 | THIS was one of the funniest films I 've seen this year . |