Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In front of me sat the smartest and most alert looking person I had ever seen in my life . |
| 2 | Certainly part of me won the 1964 Open . ’ |
| 3 | Because the 1980s in the UK was a very favourable period for customers , UK retailers did n't see those developments : most of them spent the 1980s massaging their profits and margins , which they euphemistically called ‘ adding value ’ ’ . |
| 4 | By this stage , many of them reflected the growing importance of the classical movement , depicting their subjects in classical settings , surrounded by symbolic fruits , flowers , and urns . |
| 5 | I was n't sure how many of them knew the actual meaning of the word . |
| 6 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Darlington Railway Preservation Society , explained : ‘ Quite a few historians have written about this building but it seems a bit odd that none of them knew the exact date it opened . |
| 7 | And of those who firmly intended to vote Conservative more than half of them said the major reason for giving the Tories support was that ‘ they like the local candidate ’ . |
| 8 | None of them shared the icy restraint of the last letter . |
| 9 | Most people in bands have quite similar backgrounds and I reckon a lot of them shared the same experience as I did . |
| 10 | The first of them resembled the still-existing cyanobacteria ( formerly known — wrongly — as ‘ blue green algae ’ ) . |
| 11 | They had reached the end of the ferry jetties and ahead of them lay the tightly-knit bulk of the town , its few colours beige , dun , ochre , brown and white — flattened by the sunlight . |
| 12 | Most of them had the familiar ‘ jizz ’ of guillemots but were too far out for us to tell if they were common guillemots or the Arctic species , Brünnich 's guillemots. ( 'Jizz' is a term coined by experienced birdwatchers to explain how a distant or fleeting glimpse of a bird can produce a positive identification without your being able to say exactly why . ) |
| 13 | Three of the staff from Orange wore the silver parachute wings which denoted service in the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes , and all of them had the blue and white campaign ribbons denoting service in Chad or Lebanon . |
| 14 | The debate on these issues continued for several centuries and the proposed solutions were very varied , but all of them had the ultimate implication that only the civilized Christian Europeans deserved to be rated as true men in a fully human sense ; all other " men " being variously rated as sub-human animals , monsters , degenerate men , damned souls , or the product of a separate creation . |
| 15 | They did not pray two rak'ahs before making love , or perform wudu after intercourse ( perhaps because neither of them had the faintest idea what wudu might be ) , and they were woefully deficient in the sacrifice and dowry departments . |
| 16 | And none of them had the arranged marriages which were normal just one generation earlier . |
| 17 | ‘ Every single one of them had the same opinion as mine , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Two hundred and fifty came from Strathnaver and 104 of them had the same surname : William Mackay . |
| 19 | But that night , all four of them had the same dream … |
| 20 | Merchants were not famous for taking exception to the behaviour of government appointees , but one of them likened the new Moscow Governor , A. A. Zakrevskii , to an Asiatic khan or Chinese viceroy . |
| 21 | Many of them wore the chequered scarves of the Palestinian fedayeen , the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . |
| 22 | As Fael-Inis began to play , each of them drew a deep breath and surrendered , and each of them experienced the deepest contentment at hearing the silver pipes of enchantment . |
| 23 | One of them constructed the astounding rock-hewn churches at Lalibela . |
| 24 | But the flow of immigrants went on , with very little space to receive the new settlers , so in 1628 some of them made the easy move from St. Kitts to Nevis , and a couple of years later made a slightly longer move and occupied the islands of Antigua and Monserrat , laying the foundations of English settlement in the Leeward Islands . |
| 25 | Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team . |
| 26 | She never knew which one of them made the first move , but suddenly , unaccountably , she was in his arms , his hands pressing against her back to draw her closer still . |
| 27 | It was therefore important for him to be well informed about events in his own country and in the political world generally ; and ambassadors sometimes asked in their despatches for news which they could trade with their colleagues from other states since , as one of them told the French foreign minister in 1674 , " You know that in [ diplomacy ] as in other ordinary transactions it is necessary to give in order to receive " . |
| 28 | Yesterday , two of them told The Northern Dr Clarke had not mentioned he was standing for the BNP , and that they would not have signed had he said so . |
| 29 | But here there was no statutory authority , and although there were several paths that seemed to lead to a solution , none of them went the whole way . |
| 30 | Sophie lowered the table and the two of them hoisted the surprised dog on to it and raised the table to a convenient height . |