Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She died soon afterwards , keeping her hatred of me alive in her heart , and no one at Gateshead cried for her . |
| 2 | They 'd stopped on their way across the marble floor , both of them blue-white in the lights and the fog . |
| 3 | It included cartoons of them house-hunting in Katmandu and the children building sandcastles on holiday in Wales . |
| 4 | Clark demonstrates that older people tried , where possible , to set up contractually based arrangements ( some of them enforceable through the courts ) to secure their livelihood and care in old age , through a system whereby they surrendered some of their rights to their land to a specified individual , in return for agreed services — ‘ individually arranged pension benefits ’ ( ibid . |
| 5 | Research projects , many of them collaborative with other European centres of excellence , have been funded by ESRC , SERC , ESPRIT and BRAIN in such areas as natural language understanding and computational neuroscience . |
| 6 | So now he had in all 10,025.07 votes , 1,118.07 of them surplus to the quota . |
| 7 | Huge amber clouds — ‘ symbols of a high romance ’ — floated across a brilliant blue sky , and the sun went down dramatically with vertical shafts of crimson , fake flames behind the pine trees , the birds — many of them new to her — still shouting after dark . |
| 8 | Many of them such as the American Express Gold Card and the NatWest Mastercard are charge cards , not credit cards . |
| 9 | And the er there 's there 's er one one of them two of them had to close down . |
| 10 | Two things that make a people a top earner here of course is one of them one of them in addition to graft , is that they wo n't sit back and sign up one deal and be very satisfied in a day . |
| 11 | No one of them one of them |
| 12 | Now , meantime , until this happy state of affairs has been reached and we can devolve these responsibilities , we continue to support individual artists directly ourselves , through a variety of schemes , all of which I like to think relate to making more of them accessible to the public . |
| 13 | When tapes come into me I have a listen to the beginning and end of them all to sort of see what sort of quality they are |
| 14 | Either that , or they may have practised the oldest and surest method of them all for preventing unwanted pregnancies — abstinence from sexual relations . |
| 15 | about five of them all with the same name ? |
| 16 | And how was it possible for a man with cardiac problems to win the greatest tennis crown of them all at Wimbledon in 1975 ? |
| 17 | One supporter summed up the feelings of them all about the authorities who took them away . |
| 18 | More generally , he was certainly the most effective in making his mark abroad ; he was the most sought-after of them all in the European marriage market , which was both highly profitable and rewarding to morale when this Scottish king succeeded where an English one failed and Mary of Guise became James 's second wife , rather than Henry VIII 's fourth . |
| 19 | Most of them all in hessian sack , |
| 20 | These young teenagers all millions of them all in this group that came down and took their bras and oh |
| 21 | and if people could get a copy of them all before the next meeting |
| 22 | After all he had been through he had missed the longest standing running record of them all by just one mile ! |
| 23 | Joyfully , they made love again , this time at his pace , not hers , even with a contraceptive he produced , both of them delighted by their mutual daring . |
| 24 | But it was not keeping many of them awake at night , and it certainly was n't the major influence on how they were going to vote . |
| 25 | It had been a dry summer but the pool was full and the young people , many of them travel-stained after a long trek from Portofino , were lying in steaming baths , their toes poised to activate the gilded taps . |
| 26 | He fed her names to see whether she thought any of them capable of sending the knives or the death threat , either as unpleasant practical jokes or to intimidate . |
| 27 | Many species and varieties are available , many of them suitable for your community set-up . |
| 28 | A depressing number of British and US publishers turned it down — most of them warm in their praise of the book , but expressing doubt as to whether the political climate in Britain and the USA was right for its content . |
| 29 | Three other qualities , less obvious , emerge when we look deeper ; all of them relevant to the principal theme of this book . |
| 30 | The fist techniques of taekwondo involve lunge punches , reverse punches , back fists and hammer fists — all of them similar to the basic karate punches described in the previous chapter . |