Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I have one of my mini chocolate orange things ? |
| 2 | Only because it 's one of my all time favourite riffs … |
| 3 | I have tried to identify the pattern of presuppositions which underlay common sense arguments about the meaning of my two study texts ; I look both at their theoretical adequacy as explanatory models of racism , and at their rhetorical power as a means of winning consent for certain ‘ exemplary ’ or ‘ ideologically correct ’ formulations of how antiracist work should be done . |
| 4 | The dream of the New Look has to have taken place during or after the summer of 1950 , because in it I wore one of my two summer dresses , one of green and one of blue gingham , that were made that year and that lasted me , with letting down , until I went to school . |
| 5 | I remember watching flecks in the concrete passing under the tips of my black button shoes and the flaked brown paint of the step of my pushchair . |
| 6 | For fifteen years I 've spent much of my spare time scrabbling and grovelling about in the mud and gravels of our upland waterways . |
| 7 | More attractive were the hillier southern regions of Lewis and Harris where I spent most of my spare time rambling and climbing . |
| 8 | The bride is one of my greatest school friends . |
| 9 | ‘ You are not , as you believe , the offspring of Will Halidon — but of my late husband John Mowbray , fourth Duke of Norfolk . ’ |
| 10 | Enclosed is a photograph of my late father Bert Wakefield on site just after the war . |
| 11 | Judging by the critical reaction to certain passages in the third of my recent Reith Lectures this dogma is very widely held to be a self-evident truth . |
| 12 | Similarly , the apparent text of my obsessive orderliness read , ‘ Form and order make for efficiency , and efficiency makes for a well-structured , meaningful life ’ , while the sub-text read , ‘ Unless I impose some form and order on life , I shall lose control , chaos will ensue , and life will become meaningless . ’ |
| 13 | I later wrote a little piece for the magazine of the Old Boys of my former grammar school and I said , quite truthfully , that I had n't even told my family what was said between us . |
| 14 | ‘ Yesterday morning , during break , you sneaked like a serpent into the kitchen and stole a slice of my private chocolate cake from my tea-tray ! |
| 15 | I was busy and happy all that time , relying greatly on the help and encouragement of my dear friend Miss Temple . |
| 16 | I took stock of my fur-lined leather jacket which I had prized for years , and I did n't see any problem . |
| 17 | I was glad of my stout walking boots as I squelched through bossy bits . |
| 18 | I climbed out of my hired morning suit , mused lingeringly on everything I 'd experienced that eventful day … and fell fast asleep . |
| 19 | Today I attended the Scotland/Wales rugby international at Murrayfield with several of my under-15 team mates from Preston Lodge High School , East Lothian . |
| 20 | Two of my Bleeding Heart Tetras have developed a hemispherical black lump 2 to 3mm in diameter , towards the rear of the body . |
| 21 | I therefore form a hypothesis about an appropriate contribution based on the proposition being considered , the associated facts and logic , the personalities of my fellow committee members and my own standing within the committee . |
| 22 | It was hard to leave , too , because the parents of my good friend Henry Clerval would not let him go to university with me . |
| 23 | Reminds me of my first branch chair , an ex-miner , who used to give me a lift home in his Jag . |
| 24 | So upon this , my third post-chapel ‘ chat ’ of my first Lent term , ‘ The boy who refused to be confirmed at a Woodard School ’ was launched , and the annual , ‘ All those who have n't been confirmed , stay behind after matins ’ was to go on for four more weary years . |
| 25 | As it turned out that was the end of my first World Championship . |
| 26 | With two of my first graduate students to work on the chick , I went on to explore some of the more detailed biochemistry of these changes . |
| 27 | I 'd been excited about Brownies for so long that I 'd been warned about wishing my life away nearly a hundred times by the week of my first Pack meeting . |
| 28 | It 's for this latter meaning I chose it as the name of my new holiday company . |
| 29 | I currently set the ignition timing of my 8:1 compression ratio engine , using 90 octane fuel ( Note : An ethanol |
| 30 | Occasionally linen , holland or cerecloth would have been specially bought in for this purpose rather than sacrificing a useful item of domestic furnishing in an age when linen of any appreciable width was a luxury and worthy of bequest ( 'There are 4 very fine smocks in your father 's little linen trunk and one of my four breadth Holland sheets for your own girl Peg … and I desire your father that he will not let any of my household linen be sold , but that it may go to you and your eldest son and I hope to his son too , only some of my broderies of my own making give to your sister . ' ) . |