Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I loved it : when nearly every one of my friends came round , all they wanted to play was Super Wonder Boy . |
| 2 | ‘ Several of my friends went up yesterday , and were expecting to spearhead a big breakthrough . ’ |
| 3 | I have barely scraped the surface of my topics singled out for illumination . |
| 4 | No-one of my generation set out to be a war correspondent , at least not in Europe , because we supposed that previous generations had disposed of all that and that war in Europe , if it were ever to occur again , would be the kind of war that would leave no-one alive to write about it . |
| 5 | The DHSS were playing me up over the removal grant , so one of my sons went up to the house to see if there were any letters — everything had been smashed , crocks were smashed and the beds were slashed . |
| 6 | Then one of my sons went down into the village to see if the army had left , He came back to tell us that they had destroyed everything , that they had taken all the maize , all the cows and had burnt every house in sight . |
| 7 | One of my boys went out to Heathrow to pick it up . |
| 8 | When I did Beyond The Fringe , I was five foot two and the rest of them were all six foot , and a lot of my comedy came out of me being small . |
| 9 | I discussed the format of the diet with various callers and then one of my members came in to the shop . |
| 10 | ‘ My symptoms only became apparent after 18 months — the skin of my bottom broke out in an itchy rash . |
| 11 | Then it was on to my bike and off to spend the rest of my day banged up with a bunch of sullen , spoilt brats in order to make Clive Phillips even richer than he already was . |
| 12 | of my constituents lost out . |
| 13 | The roof of my cave fell in , and nearly killed me ! |
| 14 | The first year of my research made up my pilot study and from that I decided to carry out a full scale research project . |
| 15 | As one of my pupils pointed out — there are a lot of moments wasted when lying on your back for three months . |
| 16 | The red of my anger bubbled up like the rosy orange juice squeezed by the vendors ' machines in the main street in our village . |
| 17 | Twenty years ago , in all innocence , the occupant of my house stuck up a little fence , 15ft long , inside his own boundary . |
| 18 | When she visited the hostels and goodwill centres or was out on the soup run distributing food and blankets to the homeless on the streets of London , the caring side of her nature came fully into play : " I think something of my mother came back into me . " |
| 19 | One of my colleagues went up to D 's cottage last weekend and PK was up for eight days about a fortnight ago , and had a really super week and not bad weather though there was a lot of snow at the roadsides on their way back — she went with current boyfriend , a nice chap who lives in Midlands . |
| 20 | Neither of my couriers came back . ’ |
| 21 | Many of my envelopes came back ‘ Return to Sender ’ , and it was clear that most members had died or were very elderly . |
| 22 | One of their defenders stayed back making a mockery of their appeals for offside . |
| 23 | A large part of their earnings went back again to the USA for investment ; as a result they had to pay Belpan National Bank 's transfer charges twice . |
| 24 | Jets will have the advantage in terms of cup final experience as four of their players turned out for Telford in last year 's final . |
| 25 | Midges drawn by the smell of their sweat swarmed round their heads and young Angus began to regret his curiosity , but his father 's face was set and dark in a way that froze out complaints , or chatter of any kind . |
| 26 | ‘ Almost every time one of their rifles went off ’ , Gibbon lamented , ‘ one of our party was sure to fall . ’ |
| 27 | The Horror Film Specialist was surrounded by an admiring coterie of lesser horror film specialists and most of their conversation referred back to previous triumphs . |
| 28 | They was t that tried to be the strike breakers and there was several of their buses turned over you 've probably read that have you in the |
| 29 | In spite of complaints by leaders of trade unions many of their members bought up the shares . |
| 30 | A draught whistled through the jeep and all three men had the collars of their mackintoshes turned up . |