Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toby Sykes putts boldly and hits a mighty tee shot but too many over-delicate chips , two of them into bunkers at close range . |
| 2 | You may then think of them as questions for each paragraph to answer . |
| 3 | The villagers hold them in awe and think of them as men of the world . |
| 4 | Thinking of them as numbers on a tall , thin clockface may be useful , so first put a large leaf into the twelve o'clock position and then one at six o'clock . |
| 5 | I had already discussed it with a fair proportion of them as individuals in the previous weeks . |
| 6 | Every surface was covered with photographs , many of them old , but all of them of women with babies . |
| 7 | Outside the formal political discourses of Alliance and Labour there emerged a genuine popular resentment against Alliance candidates based on a simple identification of them with threats to relief . |
| 8 | She strode through the newspapers all over the floor , some of them with dates from the thirties , even the war . |
| 9 | Seventeen people were taken to Guy 's , most of them with lacerations to arms , wrists , tendons , backs and shoulders . |
| 10 | Wooden horses and kangaroos and chickens went round and round also , a few of them with children on their backs . |
| 11 | The gypsies were on their feet , two of them with knives in their hands . |
| 12 | Here was a variety of wildfowl , some of them with broods of young , all scrabbling after scraps of bread provided by shoppers and passers-by . |
| 13 | Anne was more comfortable with the married women she worked with , many of them with husbands in the Forces and with the same problems and hopes as herself . |
| 14 | Quite a few of them without feet in them , because the humans had taken them off . |
| 15 | Adults , many of them without children of their own , go into schools for their classes . |
| 16 | For example , when Lok looks across to the island in the burgeoning spring , a narratorial simile compares the haze of early spring buds to smoke : " there were buds everywhere on the island too , drifts of them like clouds of bright green smoke " ( p. 101 ) . |
| 17 | Kidneys are usually obtained from dead people and many of them from victims of road accidents . |
| 18 | She remembered clothes she had then , on her honeymoon and afterwards : suits and dresses , many of them in shades of blue , her favourite colour , coats and scarves and shoes . |
| 19 | Think of them in groups of threes and that gives you four dotted ? |
| 20 | Charlie Mears , the bank clerk , however , is more usually a secondrate poet who does not understand the value of his ‘ dreams ’ , scorning to think of them in terms of actual reincarnations , though these dreams are so vivid that reality and unreality seem mixed . |
| 21 | For it is not clear that the generative or productive motions which ‘ cause ’ a circle really are put forward as ‘ efficient ’ causes ; Hobbes has a tendency to speak of them in ways which make it not inappropriate to think of them in terms of some notion of ‘ formal ’ cause . |
| 22 | The ladies could make little sense of them in terms of their norms of dress . |
| 23 | This was a double-barrel blow for both of them in terms of loss of money and prestige . |
| 24 | Yes and take control of them in terms of direction and so on . |
| 25 | We look forward very much to his succession to the Chair , and we wish him very well and I know that he can count on the full support of all the honorary officers , and all of you as members of the Council as he takes on these new responsibilities . |
| 26 | If you are put in the position of having to commit yourself to one employer , establish well in advance of accepting a job or secondment offer exactly what will be required of you in terms of subsequent employment . |
| 27 | Aline sees more of him on nights in Marcus . ’ |
| 28 | It was an understood thing that Mr Joe , Sir , as he was now — and that was hard to take in — was still in shock , for he walked about like someone in a dream and would stand staring in front of him for minutes on end . |
| 29 | But he wanted to represent a protean form now , however impossible ; wanted to find a way to fix what he 'd seen at the door of his hotel room , when Pie'oh'pah 's many faces had been shuffled in front of him like cards in an illusionist 's deck . |
| 30 | Colin James Rendell FCA of Queen Elizabeth Cottage , Broadtown , Swindon , Wilts having been found liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) ( a ) in that he in Swindon between 19 December 1991 and 18 August 1992 failed to deal properly and promptly with enquiries made of him by solicitors in respect of the taxation affairs of a deceased client ( b ) and in that he in Swindon between 6 July 1992 and 22 July 1992 failed to honour an undertaking to contact solicitors and having been found liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( iv ) ( c ) in that he in Swindon between 19 December 1991 and 5 May 1992 failed to comply with a direction of the Disciplinary Committee made under Bye-law 83(c) that he obtain advice from the Practice Referrals Service . |