Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , some of me favourite TV programmes start at 8 p.m . |
| 2 | it had , erm one of them cast iron baths you know in the middle of the bathroom with the sort of er curly legs , Queen Anne type legs on it |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , ’ Joe continued , ‘ he said she looks like one of them bloody film stars . ’ |
| 4 | She was going to have her husband was in khaki as a territorial and her and her bridesmaid was going to have khaki frocks to be some of them great velvet frocks . |
| 5 | Oh I thought it was one of them fifty pence ones . |
| 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 | Bill only likes H P beans and I give Maggie a tin of them seventeen P beans and I says throw the tin away before he sees it and he could n't tell the difference . |
| 9 | I can still hear stuff , but it sounds swishy like when you listen to one of them curly sea shells . |
| 10 | " I make the tree stand up , if you let me make some of them little colour things . " |
| 11 | We could put under there to hang some bits and pieces up , some of them little sticker things . |
| 12 | I was , I got one of them big soap powders before Christmas , I 'm still using that . |
| 13 | We ai n't seen any of them crazy sect bastards Sheriff Springfield warned us to look out fer neither . |
| 14 | But yeah , but the pure orange I would n't dare to touch Cos they 're some of them canned orange drinks are |
| 15 | Periods of peace alternated with conflicts , some of them minor border skirmishes , others quite major clashes . |
| 16 | But it 's , it 's like er , one of them dual bar ones , right easy to set . |
| 17 | ( Subsequently , the RUC was accused of leading the marchers into an ambush consisting of stone-throwing , cudgel-wielding assailants , many of them off-duty B Specials . ) |
| 18 | If you 're looking to history for inspiration or entertainment , or an indecently brilliant rock ‘ n ’ roll story , then comes feast on ‘ Bodies ’ , ‘ Anarchy ’ , ‘ Problems ’ , the finer recorded works of Ye Olde Sexe Pistols . |
| 19 | ( Such species also have social systems in which males spend almost all their time at display grounds while the females spend almost all of theirs performing nesting duties singlehanded . ) |
| 20 | Are any of you experienced map users ? |
| 21 | Nevertheless , her sparing detail is invariably more fully indicative of social change than that of her more prolix contemporaries . |
| 22 | Figures are not produced for the lengths of old field boundaries removed or watercourses canalised but in 1983 , SAFER Auvergne spent 163,481FF on building new farms and buildings ; 470 , 165FF on irrigation , drainage and straightening water courses ; 1,859,119FF on roads , clearance for cultivation ( scrub etc ? ) and boundary construction , much of it attracting state subsidies . |
| 23 | On the face of it gross profit rates showed a steady decline over the 1960s and a dramatic fall between 1970 and 1975 from 23 per cent to 13 percent ; if capital consumption is taken into account the fall was from 17 to 4 per cent . |
| 24 | He well deserved the sentence he got , but to many of us five life sentences do not seem quite enough for what he did to our youngsters . |