Example sentences of "of [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been doin' all sorts of jobs since then , and livin' in all sorts of lodgings , and now I 've been chucked out of me last place because I did n't 'ave any job or any money . |
| 2 | hon. Friend the Member for Hexham ( Mr. Amos ) immediately in front of me , I should have welcomed equally the presence of the attractive blonde lady who was sitting in front of me last week , but she obviously has other things to do this week . |
| 3 | Unlike Ma , I know what it wants : not a spoon but my spoon — in fact precisely that spoon belonging to the tea set which became a part of me last Christmas . |
| 4 | Right , I 've spoken to both of them first thing this morning about their trainers . |
| 5 | He was twice runner-up and missed only two cuts , one of them last year . |
| 6 | There is little argument that , other than by the Augusta book , Tom Kite — the world 's all-time leading money winner , twice runner-up in the Masters , with only two cuts missed since his first appearance in 1976 , one of them last year — should have been in . |
| 7 | It filled only 60% of them last year , a good season for Greece as a whole ; it is hoping to do better in 1993 . |
| 8 | Frankly , dear Lily , I saw too many of them last year … ’ |
| 9 | Most of the rest moved to Loch Laggan , after charges of trespass were brought against some of them last year . |
| 10 | ‘ Even I could n't see some of them last week . |
| 11 | I gave you one of them last time did n't I ? |
| 12 | NEC hopes to sell 1,500 of them next year . |
| 13 | ‘ Well now , you look here , that was a good lay of yours last night . |
| 14 | It was no great shock , therefore , when around the time of my nineteenth birthday , the police informed me she was in hospital again . |
| 15 | I HAVE JUST celebrated , or , rather , I have just had drawn to my attention , the occasion of my 64th birthday . |
| 16 | Not long after I 'd started the notebook , I became the proud owner of my first pair of binoculars . |
| 17 | Yorkshire is a cold place and I could remember the sensation almost of shock at the start of my first winter in Darrowby . |
| 18 | One of my first articles on machine knitting ( before MKM was even born ) was called ‘ Do n't blame the machine ; it 's the operator that 's at fault ’ . |
| 19 | Rita : You know , the old story , my first thoughts when I had her , well one of my first thoughts , was Oh , I 've got one of them kids that have silly haircuts , silly anoraks , spend all day on buses or all day in a home , weaving baskets , and that was my first thought … |
| 20 | I had ordered a consommé to begin and , by the end of my first course , she was clearly growing restless . |
| 21 | I did n't feel it was worthwhile to make an effort in England any more if this was to be the result of my first exposure in England since Robert Fraser collapsed . |
| 22 | Only three could read , and none could write , so at the end of my first day I felt quite depressed at the thought of the hard work ahead of me . |
| 23 | She came into Dorothy when I was on days there at the end of my first year . ’ |
| 24 | I spent the whole of my first year waiting to be tapped on the shoulder and told they 'd made a mistake . |
| 25 | In the summer of 1979 , at the end of my first year as a history student at Edinburgh University , I , having never been outside Britain , put a pack on my back and , with a great and enduring friend of similar enthusiasm , set out across Europe . |
| 26 | This sees the end of my first year as chairman . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been living on odd bits and pieces , ’ he says , ‘ as well as the proceeds of my first novel . ’ |
| 28 | I did not then know any literary people , and my first contact with Ivy ( at one remove ) was when Spencer Curtis-Brown ( later to become literary executor of Elizabeth Bowen and Somerset Maugham ) accepted the agency of my first novel late in 1937 . |
| 29 | ‘ You , the last remaining of my First Hierarchy of Hell . |
| 30 | ( How I thrilled at her use of my first name ! ) |