Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was to be fought with far larger armies than on similar occasions in the past : about 36,000 , with superior troops , cannon and equipment on William 's side , about 25,000 , some of them first-class French troops but mainly ill-trained , poorly equipped Irish , on that of the man the English called ‘ the late King James ’ . |
| 2 | Each of them combined eastern ritual with western realism . |
| 3 | Certainly in principle , and also in fact , the gene reaches out through the individual body wall and manipulates objects in the world outside , some of them inanimate , some of them other living beings , some of them a long way away . |
| 4 | Katy and Jamie got ready very quickly and Mum gave each of them two wee spoons . |
| 5 | Wife Doña Ximena , said he , these damsels who have served you so well , I will give in marriage to these my vassals , and to every one of them two hundred marks of silver , that it may be known in Castille what they have got by their services . |
| 6 | We also have to provide support for the A N C for thirty years a banned organization having to start from scratch in a country where the majority is supported but having no party officers or structures in place because if we suspend support to them or reduce it it will be like having no support of them all this time and just when the bird is about to fly you clip its wings . |
| 7 | Yeah , that that would be one of them that little flower up there . |
| 8 | Only several weeks later , as she lay stifling in her cabin on a filthy steamer from Trebizond , did she reflect that the Kurd , in the whole time he had been with them , had executed Miss Fergusson 's commands with punctiliousness and honour ; further , that she had no means of knowing what had passed between the two of them that last night in the cave . |
| 9 | Not that an animal picture on the wall meant anything to either of them that particular evening . |
| 10 | Most of them used local girls , but I decided to go to the famous state-run Eros Centre in Hamburg , which I 've since heard has been closed down due to the AIDS scare . |
| 11 | Some of them used broken chairs to hit people . |
| 12 | Even in the nineteenth century , many hundreds of vessels passed through the Straits each year , most of them small coasting ships but also a good many larger vessels trading between Europe and the East Indies ( Java and Sumatra were at that time prosperous Dutch colonies ) . |
| 13 | The death toll was initially reported at around 250 , but later officially estimated at around 70 people , many of them poor Surinamese immigrants believed to be living illegally in the Netherlands ; a senior Netherlands police official was quoted on Oct. 13 as saying , however , that " we will never know exactly how many people were killed , and we will never know exactly who they were " . |
| 14 | He lives down Taylor 's Avenue , you know , in one of them great big houses opposite the park . |
| 15 | Thus a type description might present a comprehensive array of structures and give each of them equal descriptive weight , but a token description might well reveal that some of these were of rare occurrence , or restricted to a realization through a limited range of lexical items , almost exclusively confined to certain contexts , or associated with certain meanings . |
| 16 | Liverpool was a curiously sensitive man who presided with firmness and tact over a series of Cabinets containing men of greater ability , several of them future prime ministers . |
| 17 | The Ecological Bricks Initiative will create new parks in Finland , Poland , Germany , the Czech Republic , Slovakia , Austria , Hungary , Albania and Bulgaria on unspoilt natural habits , many of them former military training grounds , now threatened by development . |
| 18 | ‘ One of them old music-hall ballads of yours , Charlie . ’ |
| 19 | So I nipped in and bought one of them little tiny bag , I 've never had tiny bag before . |
| 20 | One of them little clippy ones . |
| 21 | oh it 's only three of them little yellow ones |
| 22 | In all of them some private violence pulled against prescribed behaviour . |
| 23 | So 156 MPs had some identifiable business interest , a little over half of the party , but for most of them some other interest seemed to predominate . |
| 24 | The Chinese are very good singers , and practically every other person seemed to have a good voice and a repertoire of songs , a lot of them popular revolutionary songs , but also they gave us a rendering of ‘ old Man River ’ and a few others , and we all rounded the occasion off with Rio Grande , Old MacDonald had a farm ( during which the Chairman of the Institute Revolutionary Committee looked a bit bemused ) and Auld Lang Syne. and I also did our bit , singing a few English songs including ‘ Turpin Hero ’ , and we even attempted a rendering of two Chinese songs from the opera ‘ the White-Haired Girl ’ , much to everybody 's amusement and applause . |
| 25 | The guy said it did n't do either of them any serious damage , but they had really bad headaches afterwards . |
| 26 | She had to stand up in the midst of a certain amount of pomp and ceremony and address a large audience , which included her own family , her husband , the Prime Minister , the Lord Mayor and a host of City dignitaries , many of them accomplished public speakers themselves . |
| 27 | We 've still got two big tins , them ginormous ones so you 'll only need four of them forty five P ones . |
| 28 | I ai n't got no best pans , I 've had my pa most of my pans , they 've all near enough come from either Embassy cigarette coupons or Number Six coupons , and I 've still got them and I 've had some of them twenty bloody years , all them pans . |
| 29 | Choate parallels Servan-Schreiber , but his exposes are ostensibly more sinister : showing how the Japanese bought their way to excessive influence in Washington by hiring regiments of lobbyists , many of them senior former officials , in order to move Congress and the Administration their way . |
| 30 | In many of them assertive political leaders are trying to enhance their power . |