Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Many of them make regular trips to the filmset where it was all put together , at Portmeirion in Wales . |
| 6 | Most of them got thirty years . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 " ) . |
| 9 | Three of them use online services to a reasonable extent , while the other two make limited use of them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Almost one in five of them said male nurses were seen as ‘ weak ’ . |
| 12 | A couple of them sported bruised faces , and one was limping . |
| 13 | Only three of them secured enough votes to be assured of their seats . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Members benefited from both the restricted entry and competition controls , allowing many of them to earn oligopolistic profits . |
| 16 | Er no , but one of them collected these ones . |
| 17 | The largest of them have lion mouths and a lion face on the base of the barrel ; these were cast in 1599 in Munich for Duke Maximilian I. Each of them weighs 7,225 lbs . |
| 18 | Artists , too , have changed , some of them choosing new areas to investigate . |
| 19 | Most of them became good Americans . |
| 20 | There are over SmartIcons and some of them introduce new facilities . |
| 21 | Just two days later , at a party attended by a particularly ‘ old ’ ( and tarty ) flame of his , the expression on my face as I watched the two of them exchange meaningful glances would surely have revealed the same disgust and disdain that Diana displays whenever she encounters one of her husband 's confidantes . |
| 22 | A series of imposing buttresses characterise this part of the crag , many of them sporting ominous roofs , or at least overhangs , in the vicinity of mid-height . |
| 23 | Some of them contain printed reports , some sheaves of handwritten minutes held together by Treasury tags . |
| 24 | All of them contain strong elements of role play , narrative and ritual . |
| 25 | Each child was proud of how good they had been , each of them earning three stickers for the three meals . |
| 26 | Most of them had cartilaginous vertebrae , like modern toads . |
| 27 | Many of them had blue lights on top . |
| 28 | There was , however , one issue on which both of them had similar views : President Sadat 's peace-seeking journey to Jerusalem in November 1977 and its sequel at Camp David the following year . |
| 29 | Most of them had similar extensions . |
| 30 | The family drew together to help each other , and most of them had additional sources of comfort . |