Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of me knew this sort of thing worked . |
| 2 | ‘ Clever of me to acquire such information , do n't you agree ? ’ |
| 3 | But the rest of me ignored those details and clutched hungrily at the reassurance that she had n't really played a willing part in my humiliation . |
| 4 | Given the excellence of the cause which benefits from the sales of ‘ Ruby Trax ’ and the generosity of the artists etc , etc , it would be churlish of me to rubbish individual tracks — although there are one or two here which have tempted me sorely — so I will pick out some highlights for you . |
| 5 | I think it took a lot out of me learning colloquial English . |
| 6 | ‘ When we heard about poor Alain Gebrec being dead , I had a sudden vision of Dora looking furiously angry … you know how she sometimes glares at Dieter … and I thought for a moment … supposing it had been Dieter who 'd been killed … it might have been Dora who had … oh , I know it 's dreadful of me to think these things , but she hates him so much . ’ |
| 7 | There is a controversy going on in America at the moment because President Bush has decided to cut his military arsenal which means that many people working would lose their jobs , and because of the recession there is not much chance of them getting other jobs . |
| 8 | Our only means of escape is alcohol , and I keep off that pretty much ; but I ca n't say I blame chaps for getting drunk ( apart from the fact that it does n't do you any good ) , for few of them take any interest in books . |
| 9 | Many of them make regular trips to the filmset where it was all put together , at Portmeirion in Wales . |
| 10 | It was conducted , too , in French since France was the country to which most of them owed intellectual allegiance . |
| 11 | But none of them does full justice to the purpose of Scripture as set out by the Bible writers themselves , or to the cumulative experience of Bible users through the centuries . |
| 12 | While the deal goes down the rest of them wait next door . |
| 13 | Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money . |
| 14 | Most of them got thirty years . |
| 15 | Not all of them enjoyed full sovereignty nor were very united or coherent in structure . |
| 16 | At five o'clock tea was served to the Empress and about 20 of her guests , the groups being so organized that in the course of a week all of them enjoyed this privilege , thus avoiding any outbursts of jealousy or recrimination . |
| 17 | Lot number one one nine Lot number one one nine is the next to offer globular jars and there are two in the lot , we have one showing fifty pounds for the two of them thank fifty pounds ? |
| 18 | Most of them use small sets of rules about what constitutes an affix which can safely be removed , and any stem " normalization " which may thereafter be needed to achieve conflation ( e.g. , " absorption " — " absorb " " travelling " — " travel " ) . |
| 19 | Some of them use super P C K and some of them use Smart Drive and buggered if I can tell the difference . |
| 20 | Three of them use online services to a reasonable extent , while the other two make limited use of them . |
| 21 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 22 | Lucas 's study used data from 18 countries , and the regression equation ( 6.5 ) was estimated for each of them using annual data over the period 1952–67 . |
| 23 | Whilst they were appearing in Up With the Lark at the Adelphi Theatre , they coped admirably with their filming schedule but were furious when Sickert produced a picture of them called High Steppers . |
| 24 | Almost one in five of them said male nurses were seen as ‘ weak ’ . |
| 25 | A couple of them sported bruised faces , and one was limping . |
| 26 | Only three of them secured enough votes to be assured of their seats . |
| 27 | The workers will have to be part of the success of the sell-offs , which is why advisers like Mr Brennan are proposing that they be given sizeable stakes in companies for nothing — up to 5 per cent or more — with the possibility of them buying more shares at big discounts . |
| 28 | None of them offered any distinction from its neighbour . |
| 29 | Twenty nuclear reactors have been dumped at sea , mostly in the Arctic , seven of them containing nuclear fuel . |
| 30 | Members benefited from both the restricted entry and competition controls , allowing many of them to earn oligopolistic profits . |