Example sentences of "of [adj] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The grammar school pupils had a mean reading score of 11.2 when they were aged ten and the comprehensive pupils 10.7 .
2 The rest of the class suffered its demise in the winter of 1934 when they were replaced by the streamlined double-deckers as part of Manager Walter Luff 's modernisation of the tramway. 59 was spared and sent for storage to Fleetwood depot , following a valedictory tribute in the Evening Gazette : ‘ They were clumsy , awkward and dangerous , but they were Blackpool 's own trams , and there was nothing like them anywhere else .
3 I know it it sounds sounds sort of strange really it is re really strange .
4 But that 's what I want tomorrow morning we 'll be looking at your preparation tonight on your call and I want I want you to tell me at the end of each why you chose the route you chose right ?
5 Harry Connick Jr has been saying that since the tender age of eight when he stole the show in his native New Orleans , and he just gets better and better .
6 Joyce dates her own conversion to the age of eight when she made her pledge and vows in the Sunbeams , an organisation similar to Brownies but with slightly more spiritual content .
7 From the age of eight onwards he was allowed to dine with his parents at the Bonaparte family dinners which took place every Monday at the Tuileries , and occasionally at more formal dinners which were held in the Galerie de Diane .
8 And if you take half of that away you know they know how to manage on that as well , somehow .
9 A part of that obviously I think is going to be that there was an expected higher level of productivity than we 've actually achieved , cos you know in January I think in , in Christine 's area for example , to start off with I mean er er er productivity plummeted erm and it 's now , and she changed the system and , and one or two other things .
10 I never thought of that actually I was thinking of scrubbing the kitchens and that or maybe we would , or maybe we would put that down
11 One H positive one O H negative gives you the H two O we 've got two lots of that so we 're going to get two H two O.
12 this year she chose a big one like I got for Arf last year , cos I ai n't got a double of that so I 'm going to have to tape it off , fill it up and then put it back on cos in case she opens mine .
13 I mean basically he 's put that into account and then it 's how much will they need on top of that so he total that he would need would be three hundred and seventy thousand pounds of which there is a hundred seventy thousand so the shortfall 's twenty thousand , or two hundred thousand .
14 If she let herself believe even a word of that then she would be just as bad as they were !
15 And I had a snuff of that then I was n't right for a while .
16 Eleven percent proof , I said so get some of that down you I said you 'll sleep for a bloody week !
17 what was the point of that now we 've got one ?
18 I handed it to a former flight engineer of 213 when I visited him in Toronto some years ago .
19 There will be a presumption in favour of co-operating wherever we can . "
20 Although they built a mere 30 or so aircraft between 1929 and the end of 1933 when they formally went out of business , their racing craft took most of the major air races in that time and broke the world speed record for landplanes on one occasion — no mean achievement for a team that worked from hand-to-mouth most of the time and had little formal education .
21 Allison turned Book into a League star at the age of 30 when he took him from non-League Bath City to Plymouth Argyle .
22 Peru would assume observer status in the Pact until the end of 1993 when it would resume full membership .
23 sort of proper then I just have my tea , it 's more the picking and eating sweets in between
24 Similar things like inflexible , okay , let's take another look at some of these words , it 's not so much of this where they 're an asset , , now I would imagine , that some of these as well as being things possibly you 'd say to your , your colleagues when you 're down the pub talking about your staff .
25 I 've seen the film of this where they 're trying to g and all around from outside you can see the graves the graveyard .
26 When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes .
27 No , if he 's not taking much of this in he 'd wan na start talking
28 I now have a molecule of this there it was there again , now it 's back in again and out now they 're gone now they 're back !
29 But if we are going to accuse them of this then we had better also accuse them of inventing the doctrine of the Trinity , for although the New Testament provides evidence for such a cardinal Christian belief it does not set it out in a clear or distinct fashion .
30 If he 's married to my daughter that 'll kick-start me right back in the business , but if you wo n't play your part in all of this then I 'm just as happy to bring him down … ’
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