Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Karafistan said : ‘ Two of my friends held a 24-hour sponsored ‘ stay awake ’ . |
| 2 | I remember putting my foot down when some of my customers took a piece of their sausage as I was weighing it , and after a discerning chew they casually dropped the remaining small piece of chewed hard skin onto the floor of the shop . |
| 3 | One of my sows has a litter about three days old . |
| 4 | One of my characters owns a cafe but I wo n't be seen peeling any spuds . ’ |
| 5 | Yesterday I and a few of my colleagues spent a day 's retreat at Compton Durrville , a Franciscan retreat centre in this diocese . |
| 6 | Any of my colleagues have a number in their mind ? |
| 7 | When one of my teenagers spent a month huddled in the park with a crowd of deadpan Gothic posers , I radiated white-hot hostility . |
| 8 | Daphne : " I would be scared out of my wits to have a giraffe — it 's a wild animal and far too big for our garden ! " |
| 9 | And then we were at Frinton , masses of us , and we always used to go to Frinton in the summer because one of my uncles had a house there and we knew the people who erm dad used to play golf and mother used to knit on the beach , you know . |
| 10 | Well my free kick , he actually got a touch on that as well , he tipped it onto the post for the free kick yes , but I mean even when he bounced out to Mickey Lewis , one of their defenders got a great block from about two yards out to send it out for the corner , which luckily we scored from the corner , so that we got away with it then . |
| 11 | Full time finished with the score at 1–1 and sudden death extra time began with Woodmill seemingly well in control until one of their players conceded a foul off the ball . |
| 12 | The Boards ' own contracting services and the customer canvassing activities of their salesmen played a part in remedying this situation ; and in most new houses ‘ ring ’ mains , with a range of socket outlets and the new standard 13 amp fused plugs , became the norm . |
| 13 | None of their farmers have a |
| 14 | The pattern of change of many of the houses built before 1700 , and the fluctuating fortunes of their owners provide a pretty good history lesson . |
| 15 | The stoicism with which the Masai endured the harsh circumstances of their lives made a deep impression on the British , and the opportunity to share that hard life and thus to display to some extent their own possession of this admirable quality was part of Masailand 's attraction for many Englishmen . |
| 16 | Some people may wish to try their luck in using part of the capital value of their benefits to finance a business venture . |
| 17 | The former part of their duties aroused a protest from Libya 's Colonel Qaddafi during the pilgrimage to Mecca that year : unbelievers were traditionally forbidden from overflying the Holy Places in Saudi Arabia 's Western Province , the Hedjaz . |
| 18 | The variety of their occupations gives a sense of the remarkably diverse bases for economic independence still open at the beginning of this century . |
| 19 | It 's all part of their efforts to build a better and more rewarding career for themselves . |
| 20 | These are remarkably tough ; for instance , the recorder manufacturers must demonstrate the ability of their products to withstand a temperature of 1100°C for thirty minutes and a dynamic load of 1000 g for five milliseconds . |
| 21 | He also seems to have donated his belt and hose , as a twelfth-century account of their treasures lists a girdle made from the one and an alb decorated with gold thread from the other . |
| 22 | The fighting and horror stories from Bosnia seem a world away as fifteen refugee children and six of their mothers watch a video in Oxfordshire . |
| 23 | I think my first encounter with Carvin amplifiers was around 1983 , when one of their adverts featured a very young and fresh-faced Steve Vai , announcing the fact that he was using Carvin X100B amps in Frank Zappa 's band and was , basically , chuffed to bits with them . |
| 24 | The men of the Old World were determined mariners and eventually some of their ships found a route to Ulthuan . |
| 25 | Frank reports from Bavarian localities where the government and police agencies were in closer touch with reality than many of their superiors give a clear impression of the mood . |
| 26 | Stations jealous of their disciplines maintained a class and racial division on specific parts of the platform and between platforms . |
| 27 | Briault and West went on to comment that the headteachers in two of their studies gave a good deal of attention to the process through which individual teachers can change themselves . |
| 28 | Meanwhile our three cutters , Active , Safeguard and Swift also came out of hiding , the roar of their engines sounding a death knell for Eloise as they closed in to arrest the white yacht . |
| 29 | As opposed to the past , many of these groups and some of their ideas found a wider audience among people with political prestige or in positions of political authority . |
| 30 | Michael Brookes of Nomura suggested that headhunting firms , to justify their charges , should be prepared to accept that part of their fees reflect a performance-related element . |