Example sentences of "of [pron] [det] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | no , no , I , I , I just really want , cos I do n't think there 's any question of me this afternoon ruling on whether you 're right or not on these points , but I just er on second I thoughts I want to have them in mind |
2 | Of them all Claythorpe watermill is the one most worthy of exploration . |
3 | And the father of them all David Smith is represented by a selection of sculptures all this month ( and next , too ) at Knoedler . |
4 | On behalf of them all Tony Pite , tennis club chairman , presented Mr. Offer with a leather wallet . |
5 | They were ranked to meet him in the misty rain , every soul from castle and clachan , fidgeting and nervous , and in front of them all Marion Aluinn , eager to break the tense silence , lovely in her excitement . |
6 | Virtually all the cathedral choirs whose recordings are known abroad are directed by former Oxbridge students of one kind or another , most of them former organ scholars . |
7 | During the two-month trial , David Paget , prosecuting , said KAS operatives , many of them former SAS soldiers , tailed Europarks directors to their homes , searched their dustbins and got jobs in the company 's car parks . |
8 | I rushed last night , I did two of my geographies I did one of them this dinner time , and other he did n't ask for my book in ! |
9 | Only because it 's one of my all time favourite riffs … |
10 | ‘ Very well , ’ answered the wife , ‘ and it always reminds me of my former Croydon neighbour , Pam Hook , who also taught Medau . ’ |
11 | 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 . |
12 | It was certainly never more than an individual analysis of my own work practices — a personal time-and-motion study . |
13 | In South Antrim , the constituency of the present writer , no satisfaction was received on the matter until an exasperated meeting of my own constituency party presented the Westite Official Unionists with an ultimatum that either ‘ UUUC ’ appear on the literature and posters of their candidate or it would present its own rival one . |
14 | ‘ The Mysteries of Greathaven are famed even in the far distant streets of my own home town … ’ |
15 | I offer as an example some of my own Inspector Ghote novels , particularly the early ones , since I have found it possible in recent years to shift , as it were , Ghote 's character into higher , more serious gear . |
16 | While I have included some of my own test results here , yours will be far more valuable . |
17 | As so often in this story of my own anorexia nervosa , I find myself arriving at the same conclusion , the same central statement : it could have worked for some people , but it did n't work for me . |
18 | But I am mindful in the midst of my own troubles ma'am that you are not in good health for Miss Blagden has told me so and I am sorry to hear it and to think of you unable to leave your room and I am sorry too that the Rome winter does not prove as gentle as you had hoped . |
19 | More than half of my own family work in England . |
20 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
21 | To mind comes Ian Hunter of my own club Northampton . |
22 | and those are the six advert this is one of my own commission claim forms . |
23 | It was against this densely-textured historical backdrop that I recently awaited the delivery of my own fax machine . |
24 | Much of my paltry income goes on rent boys — one of my few weekend leisure activities . |
25 | Their coffers have been boosted by the £100,000 sale of their former England Rugby Union three-quarter John Bentley and international loose forward Gary Divorty to Halifax . |
26 | Particularly memorable too are the retired ministers who themselves carried into the cellars the cherished contents of their former manse libraries . |
27 | Meanwhile , Tyrone will begin the defence of their All Ireland football title on Saturday when they meet Monaghan at Omagh on Saturday . |
28 | The ‘ Cats ’ stormed through the Leinster championship and then destroyed Antrim in the second half of their All Ireland semi-final . |
29 | Food industries are somewhat unusual , differing from most activities , in that skilled and sometimes professionally qualified men and women are required to take an active part in the cleaning of their own work areas . |
30 | This pattern was one of " alternate bouts of intense labour and of idleness wherever men were in control of their own working lives " . |