Example sentences of "of [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he 's always been pretty decent — bailing me out of rather tricky situations I got into , and not coming down too heavily about them . ’ |
| 2 | I , it did n't come over , but for me when we interviewed Martin is one of most refreshing interviews I 've had the pleasure of taking part in ! |
| 3 | Over the next fifteen years of constantly recurring crises it was going to get much worse . |
| 4 | Faldo , interviewed in Golf World magazine , blasted : ‘ I have been 16 years on tour and I can honestly think of only two times I have seen Peter Alliss on a practice ground watching me or anybody hit balls . |
| 5 | According to Barry Pierce , Curator of Australian Art at the Gallery of New South Wales , other key works are : Glover 's ‘ View of Patterdale ’ , the finest Glover in private hands ; the Skinner Prout ‘ Willoughby Falls ’ ( bought for A$180,000 at Christie 's Australia , 1986 ) , one of only two oils he ever painted ; and the Skinner Prout ‘ From Sandy Bay , Hobarton ’ ( £15,400 , Christie 's London , 1986 ) ; and McCubbin 's ‘ Feeding Time ’ ( A$630,000 at Sotheby 's Australia , 1986 ) which stand comparison with their European contemporaries . |
| 6 | Having milked his seventy-five Friesian cows , he set about the main business of the day , loading Norton 's Coin , one of only three horses he trained under permit on his farm , into the horsebox , then taking the wheel to drive his stable star to Cheltenham . |
| 7 | Take it , and in the space of only twenty miles you pass through a rapid summary of all the Pyrenean landscapes : high pasture first of all , nowhere richer than near the Col du Soul or , with a backing of the fearsome granite of the Cirque de Lit or ; then , after the village of Arbéost , dense woodland and the gorge of the river ; then suddenly open , more or less flat country , well cultivated , and you are out of the mountains for good . |
| 8 | My heart ached for her as I realised that she had joined the ranks of so many others I had known , who had watched their men fly off into the dusk , never to be heard of again . |
| 9 | ‘ He reminded me of so many things I 'd half-forgotten . |
| 10 | By studying a series of successively younger embryos he found that the same cells at the tip of the limbs always contacted the central nervous system first , and that subsequent connections were always made along pathways established by the axon processes extended by these pioneer cells . |
| 11 | After a wait of about two hours we joined the long crocodile winding through corridors to the ballroom , with anxious ushers ensuring that we were all in the right order of presentation . |
| 12 | He shut his mouth and swallowed hard , and in the space of about two seconds she saw a whole kaleidoscope of emotions flash in succession through his mind . |
| 13 | couple of things we saw each other and then over a space of about two months we saw each other probably about three times |
| 14 | For the previous privately printed and limited edition of about 170 copies you will be fortunate if you are not parted from £2,000 . |
| 15 | So she had a list of about five things she wanted sorted out and she said so far we were the cheapest . |
| 16 | Do you know when she left on that trip she left behind a list of about 28 things I was to do . |
| 17 | I mean I 've never needed a new licence for the last three and a half years but Nicholas erm prior to this in the countdown to me appearing for my drink drive which is in a matter of about ten weeks I believe in the countdown to that , Nick said on several o two occasions anyway while other members of staff were present , Well this is a way of getting rid of him without having to pay him redundancy money . |
| 18 | There are all sorts of comparatively small changes you can make which will transform your kitchen 's looks out of all proportion to the time and expense . |
| 19 | In his mind thinks of simply incredible things he would do to her , involving getting her on a couch and going into unrealistic positions without clothes , plus jerky movements . |
| 20 | You know but er they 're really a lot of hard working women you know and er |
| 21 | From 1949 for a period of around four years he was a regular figure in Minton 's life , performing as his illustrative assistant whilst also doing free-lance work and other odd jobs . |
| 22 | As a rule of thumb , with samples of around 1000 individuals we may say that , if the difference in proportions is greater than 0.1 , then an interaction is present , and it is unwise to average the effects . |
| 23 | In a world of potentially conflicting beliefs it can thus help to extract the sting from many otherwise nasty situations of conflict and tension . |
| 24 | From the batch of over seventy birds I ringed that day , only one other came to light . |
| 25 | Alan added : ‘ While our senior managers have combined experience of over 100 years they are aged 40 and under , thus enabling us to offer the most up-to-date knowledge of shipping and air freight requirements . |
| 26 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |
| 27 | As a reader of over 60 years I never found you more stimulating . |
| 28 | ‘ If you look at the children of very rich parents you will see that they are nearly always an unhappy , shoddy lot , ’ he says . |
| 29 | Though this work was done to explain the strength of very tiny crystals it is worthy of the attention of engineers who are perhaps somewhat frightened of cracks but take a rather light-hearted view of steps in machinery and structures . |
| 30 | Star and Garter I 'm being told from the right here , those sort of very special places we do n't provide them , we buy in from , from outside . |