Example sentences of "of [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a moment ago I had in front of me the relevant paper . |
| 2 | ( If my private test convinces me that I do not want what you think I want , I assume error in your reading of me the public tests , which I must expose or leave you unanswered . ) |
| 3 | Only later , I told the now somewhat quivering Principal , only later , when Rosa had gone , did it come to mind that one or two of the other girls had made of me the same enquiry over the past twelve months . |
| 4 | It eats into their profits and for many of them the only good rabbit is a dead one . |
| 5 | I guess an inexperienced parent just does n't know what to do with these intruders in the nest , and disposes of them the only way it can . |
| 6 | Of the two of them the young Job Centre man looked the more hot and worried . |
| 7 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 8 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 9 | Just under 40 years ago , he and two other journalistic colleagues — one of them the late Ron Roberts — had the courage to call a public meeting because they were so concerned about the way the county club was being run . |
| 10 | Barrymore did not know in which of them the mysterious man was living . |
| 11 | Ahead of them the dark shadow of the trees waited . |
| 12 | On one of them the poor little creature sat nursing his arm and looking very sorry for himself . |
| 13 | Got two of them the one that , that pushes one round . |
| 14 | Inside were four small diaries , three of them the cheap cardboard-backed variety , the fourth a blue leather-bound volume that Luce recognised . |
| 15 | Somehow Finnan made sense of the tangled labyrinth , and brought them through the lanes and alleys of boats until they could see looming ahead of them the solid sunwashed stone of the city wall . |
| 16 | Ahead of them the weathered brick of the garden wall , touched with Virginia creeper , looked warm in the morning sun . |
| 17 | The experienced practitioner carries in his head the names of the best works on the subjects with which he usually deals , and the sooner the student gets to know some of them the better . |
| 18 | Anglesey meanwhile , have two debutantes in their line-up one of them the first RAF Valley player to be selected for a decade . |
| 19 | I was thinking of them the other night , well they er , five at least erm they were |
| 20 | He contributed to many newspapers and magazines , one of them the Weekly Dispatch , in whose pages he was in 1885–6 an early advocate of the formation of an independent Labour party . |
| 21 | Even John Stuart Mill who , as one would expect , greatly admired Socrates , describing him in On Liberty , rather extravagantly , as " the head and prototype of all subsequent teachers of virtue " and " the acknowledged master of all the eminent thinkers who have since lived , " was moved to protest at this probably misplaced generosity : " The Athenian Many , of whose irritability and suspicion we hear so much , are rather to be accused of too easy and good-natured a confidence , when we reflect that they had living in the midst of them the very men who , on the first show of an opportunity , were ready to compass the subversion of the democracy . " |
| 22 | He paid £2.39 for each share and sold 3.4 million of them the same day for £26 apiece , walking away with £82.5 million in cash and two million shares still in his possesion . |
| 23 | In some of them the retinotopic organization is quite loose but in others it is very precise . |
| 24 | I can still see in each of them the special qualities which made me select them . |
| 25 | Eastern religions — some of them the oldest known to man — have taught people for millennia to find their gods within themselves . |
| 26 | Creggan called out once more after her , powerfully , and Kraal stared at him in silent surprise and just a little awe , while unnoticed by any of them the meek Slorne relaxed a little and seemed to nod her head , as if to whisper to a waiting sky , ‘ Yes … yes … yes . ’ |
| 27 | Dealing with people came naturally and was in many ways the most important part of the job , but there was more that could come only with experience , and Charles was there to pass on some of the things he had learned over thirty-three years , some of them the hard way . |
| 28 | To many of them the active life seems more deserving because of the amount of good works and preaching it performs . |
| 29 | When Chapman had signed on new players in July , he had agreed to pay three of them the full yearly wage of £208 to the end of the next April . |
| 30 | Because that way it stays on if you do it the other way it 'll drop off it 's as simple as that , okay , cover the pad and as you spiral up the arm all you need to do is to cover about two thirds of what you 've just done before , just like a spiral , you find the bandages , the more you use those roller bandages of yours the worse they get to control because they lose their , you know , nice and stretchiness , so you just do , cover up the pad at the top , tie always on the top of the arm never underneath here . |