Example sentences of "of [pron] [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one of them best lads of the yard used to go up there and meet the year meet them . |
| 2 | I can not will the disappointment of my highest hope , in the expectation that the catastrophe will make a new man of me , because it is no catastrophe unless I am fully committed to the hope . |
| 3 | I had lost my virginity to a Belgian au pair who was a friend of my eldest sister . |
| 4 | ‘ The death of my eldest brother in 1978 was the most important event in my life , ’ he said . |
| 5 | I thought it was a brown leaf , but it moved again , and I saw the object of my greatest dread , a toad . |
| 6 | The bride is one of my greatest school friends . |
| 7 | One of my greatest frustrations is having to tell my electors , in correspondence and personally , that there is nothing I can do about a proposal because a decision has already been taken somewhere else — albeit by ministers , one of whom is a Member of the House — that there is nothing that anyone can do because the decision has been taken outside these shores , so there is no point in writing to me . |
| 8 | One of my greatest pleasures was to load my gun , draw the curtains in my bedroom and then crawl under the bed . |
| 9 | AS A BOY one of my greatest pleasures was watching animals . |
| 10 | Since I have mentioned the botanical gardens , let me say that one of my greatest pleasures during the Sydney shoot was taking early morning pictures in these gardens — especially of the superb skyline through the trees and flowers . |
| 11 | Since I have mentioned the botanical gardens , let me say that one of my greatest pleasures during the Sydney shoot was taking early morning pictures in these gardens — especially of the superb skyline through the trees and flowers . |
| 12 | This ranks among one of my greatest days . |
| 13 | I knew I must soon arrange the memorial party , and the perfect opportunity arose with a letter from one of my closest friends , Margo , now living in Australia , who was planning a trip to Europe with her husband later that summer . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't look quite so much like myself any more , ’ one of my closest friends told me about her decision to colour her grey . |
| 15 | ‘ This very night , three of my closest friends have — in supposedly unconnected incidents-met with a violent fate . |
| 16 | Cash and I go way , he 's one of my oldest , one of my closest friends . |
| 17 | Nor must I omit a dozen or so Turkish friends , whose friendship I was able to resume years later , above all Aziz and Ulviye Isvar and my closest Turkish friend — indeed one of my closest friends — Naci Ortaç , whose wife was the daughter of a Grand Vizier . |
| 18 | ‘ Some of my closest friends are homosexuals . |
| 19 | With the agreement of my closest colleagues and the director of the MRC 's Clinical Research Centre , Dr C. C. Booth , I provided Dr Ted Steele with an environment in which he could complete his experiments in the friendly but critical atmosphere provided by immunologists who were trying to repeat his results themselves . |
| 20 | It is one of my proudest boasts that I have never thought about insurance and I am convinced that , even under torture , I could resist the temptation . |
| 21 | It 's one of my earliest memories . |
| 22 | If this is so , some of my earliest memories heralded a life full of gloom and disaster , or at best , a consuming interest in the spectacular , even the morbid . |
| 23 | Well er I think some of my earliest memories are er dating to the First World War time when I was a boy and we lived in Street which er during the war , we made a shift to which was really the opposite side of the street . |
| 24 | Some of the galleries were gone before the days of my earliest memory , and all of them were hastening to decay . ’ |
| 25 | I was only about five and a half when she too died after a long illness and one of my earliest recollections is riding in the well , at the foot of her bath-chair when she went out for constitutionals . |
| 26 | I was born in Wapping in the year nineteen hundred and six , my father was a docker , one of my earliest recollections is of the dock strike of nineteen hundred and eleven , in which I played a part lining up at the soup kitchens to get soup for the family . |
| 27 | ‘ I played some of my earliest gigs at the club , ’ Joel says . |
| 28 | I was already upset because one of my best friends , a girl I knew at school , has been having a surgical operation today . |
| 29 | As a postscript to this , I can say in all sincerity : ‘ Some of my best friends are Gentiles . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ At the end of High School I got together with a drummer , who is still one of my best friends , and over the summer of ‘ 67 we got into a group situation . |