Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have here a copy of the committee which was formed that night , and also a copy of the minutes , I 'll give each Councillor one , and then they can read it at their leisure , instead of me taking up the whole meeting . |
| 2 | I can not for the life of me see why the County Council as the Statutory Authority and supposedly an independent er er body to British Coal is so resistant to a full public inquiry when only the clear er proposals of British Coal will come out . |
| 3 | One of them got out the ugliest looking knife that I have seen to cut a piece of string or something on his bicycle . |
| 4 | In areas where there are a number of pumice deposits present , all of them looking much the same , it 's clearly a difficult job to tell them apart and , more important , to recognize the same individual deposits in separate localities which may be many kilometres apart . |
| 5 | I mean that there 's half of them go down the dock now , they do n't do anything . |
| 6 | And it 's this that inspired the pair of them to set up the Thomas Appeal . |
| 7 | I spent a long time diving frantically after them , jamming the sheet at a bunch only to see half of them streaking out the other end , and I might have gone on indefinitely had I not felt a gentle touch on my arm . |
| 8 | This could help to give substance to what is meant by the spiritual dimension , for both of them lived out the kind of character expressed in the middle column of Table 6.1 . |
| 9 | I stood transfixed as two of them shot down the Glacier des Grands Montets carving beautiful turns all the way down beneath the north face of the Drus . |
| 10 | Beautiful women , dressed in anything from the flamboyantly obvious to the understatedly elegant , weaved in and out of the crowds , some of them hanging on the arms of men old enough to be their grandfathers . |
| 11 | ‘ How many of them lacked only the good fortune that saved you ? ’ |
| 12 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 13 | Three girls came into the line of fire , each wearing a student nurse 's uniform , walking quickly , but gossiping as they went , and laughing , their heads constantly turning to whichever of them took up the conversation . |
| 14 | They were jumping up and putting their paws up so they I went up back upstairs and they sk tried to skid up but they were going so quickly that one of them went down the step again . |
| 15 | Come on , come on , he thought , and pictured the three of them plummeting down the last thirty feet into the basement . |
| 16 | When the Israelites go out to gather it , each of them gathers exactly the right amount for himself and his family ; on the sixth day of the week a double portion is given and collected so that the sabbath rest can be properly kept ; on the sabbath , appropriately , no manna appears at all ; while any kept at the end of any of the first five days goes bad overnight , the half of the sixth day 's gathering put aside for the sabbath keeps perfectly fresh . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , Beth , I do love you , ’ she said : the two of them laughing all the more when a little voice piped up from its place at the table , ‘ I do love you too ! ’ |
| 18 | The five of them scrambled up the narrow carpeted stairway . |
| 19 | Out of these depths the England players fought back well , some of them showing just the qualities that Barrington would have wanted . |
| 20 | Four or five of them broke down the door of the Admiral Benbow and ran inside . |
| 21 | One of them switched on the light , her finger tips painted with a silvery pearl , and the other switched it off with an animal claw . |
| 22 | One of them picked up the rolled newspaper which Clasper had flung into the crowd . |
| 23 | When filling small cracks , I 've found that I get a smooth finish , which requires little or no sanding , of I roll over the crack with a paint roller a few times , while the filler is still damp . , . |
| 24 | The way she sort of I do n't the way she sort of lead |
| 25 | Our link up with adidas has certainly provided a boost to membership , with many of you taking up the option to join and receive a free headband or wristband for their trouble . |
| 26 | more so than the front room or the well the front room 's good when you get a bit of you know when the you 've got the sun . |
| 27 | ‘ It was clever of you to work out the connection with Jim Lancaster , ma'am . ’ |
| 28 | Neither of you knows personally the young man to whom you intend to entrust your , er … secret , and I feel it is my duty to caution you . ’ |
| 29 | There may be lots of others which do very similar things , but I think this is a question of you working out the criteria for your placement that you want , you know , |
| 30 | And we , it 's really funny because of we started off the evening talking about leg waxing . |