Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Abbell worked at the Justice Department for 17 years until 1984 , the last five of them as first the director and later deputy director of the Office of International Affairs . |
| 2 | Rosa ‘ Dorothy Perkins ’ , with small , double , pink flowers has clambered over one of them to such an extent that a visitor to the garden once asked about the ‘ carnation tree ’ . |
| 3 | I had twenty village girls to teach , some of them with such a strong country accent that I could hardly communicate with them . |
| 4 | He had known most of them for half a lifetime . |
| 5 | They simply show the courtesy and respect demanded of them in such a society as theirs . |
| 6 | On the way you can tell me what 's happened to make you lather up that great horse of yours in such a fashion . ’ |
| 7 | So he called me up and asked me if I wanted to play it , which was incredibly flattering because I 'd been a fan of his for such a long time . |
| 8 | Alison waved from the window of the departing taxi and Celia waved back , a sudden feeling of depression taking hold of her to such an extent that she abandoned her idea of looking for a pram and set off , rather aimlessly , in the direction of Leicester Square in the faint hope that perhaps a cinema might take her mind off things . |
| 9 | Do you know , in the first World War , when he was Commander-in-Chief , they put up wooden statues of him in all the towns and you could pay and hammer a nail in it ! |
| 10 | He had all their attention now , every eye was wide and bright upon him , Herluin and Robert irresistibly moved to hoping against hope , but very wary of disappointment , Nicol interested but bewildered , for nothing had been said to him of the loss of Saint Winifred 's reliquary , or the possibility that he might have had it aboard his wagon , and had been robbed of it with all the rest . |
| 11 | Family connections gave her an inside view of Oxford 's local government , and hers is the best account of it in all the surveys . |