Example sentences of "of [pers pn] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It eats into their profits and for many of them the only good rabbit is a dead one . |
| 2 | On one of them the poor little creature sat nursing his arm and looking very sorry for himself . |
| 3 | Inside were four small diaries , three of them the cheap cardboard-backed variety , the fourth a blue leather-bound volume that Luce recognised . |
| 4 | Somehow Finnan made sense of the tangled labyrinth , and brought them through the lanes and alleys of boats until they could see looming ahead of them the solid sunwashed stone of the city wall . |
| 5 | When Chapman had signed on new players in July , he had agreed to pay three of them the full yearly wage of £208 to the end of the next April . |
| 6 | Since the publication of his The Seven Lively Arts in the 1920s Seldes had been a linchpin of New York 's arts scene . |
| 7 | She had seen little of him the first two days . |
| 8 | His natural talent and readiness to learn , together with irregular but extremely fruitful attendance at the Istituto di Belle Arti , were to make of him the amazing so-called ‘ painter of Old Masters ’ . |
| 9 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |