Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She was a companion of mine four regenerations ago . ’ |
| 2 | At the end of my five laps , I wheedled and wangled for another session , saying that the photographer needed more time to get his shots . |
| 3 | As a ‘ for instance ’ , I was recently perturbed by an apparent leak in the smaller of my two ponds , which shares a common circulatory system with the larger Koi pool , and is fed by a return waterfall . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , I fell on the gravel , severely grazing my knee and , what was worse , ruining one of my two pairs of stockings — nasty rayon objects which sagged at the knees and cost precious clothing coupons . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's Father Kinsella , one of my two curates , ’ he explained . |
| 6 | ‘ I turned to look at the retreating figures of my two friends , feeling unbearably isolated , and went to eat alone in the cafeteria . ’ |
| 7 | Next morning , with ghoulish relish , I shattered the already somewhat shaky illusions of my two cousins . |
| 8 | So I was quite pleased , at the end of my United Airlines flight to Chicago , to discover merely that one of my two bags was missing . |
| 9 | A synthesis of my two strands of research is attempted for an illustrative ‘ typical ’ case in figure 10.6 . |
| 10 | They remind me a little of my two Shih Tzus . |
| 11 | Er the the interests of of my two clients are quite different erm and and it would be very helpful to me if the A fifty nine and A erm s sixty one could be treated separately . |
| 12 | I have tried to identify the pattern of presuppositions which underlay common sense arguments about the meaning of my two study texts ; I look both at their theoretical adequacy as explanatory models of racism , and at their rhetorical power as a means of winning consent for certain ‘ exemplary ’ or ‘ ideologically correct ’ formulations of how antiracist work should be done . |
| 13 | Meantime she has nothing to pay for the upkeep of my two brothers ; in fact , they are bringing in money . ’ |
| 14 | I 've sold my home in London and the eldest of my two children will be starting school here next month . ’ |
| 15 | The dream of the New Look has to have taken place during or after the summer of 1950 , because in it I wore one of my two summer dresses , one of green and one of blue gingham , that were made that year and that lasted me , with letting down , until I went to school . |
| 16 | Her crocheting was a work of art , much of it now in the possession of my two sisters . |
| 17 | Today I attended the Scotland/Wales rugby international at Murrayfield with several of my under-15 team mates from Preston Lodge High School , East Lothian . |
| 18 | The fuel consumption of my 1966 IIA two and a quarter petrol is horrendous and the oil consumption is not much better . |
| 19 | But as I surveyed the grand vista of my 47 ft plot , one fact became clear : in their struggle for power , many of my shrubs were now far too big for their boots . |
| 20 | It was the end of my 1983 season . |
| 21 | I currently set the ignition timing of my 8:1 compression ratio engine , using 90 octane fuel ( Note : An ethanol |
| 22 | In many cases the school was also the church , where the small groups of Christians , almost entirely Karen in race , gathered for Sunday worship and for Holy Communion when I was able to turn up , or occasionally one of my four Karen ‘ curates ’ . |
| 23 | Occasionally linen , holland or cerecloth would have been specially bought in for this purpose rather than sacrificing a useful item of domestic furnishing in an age when linen of any appreciable width was a luxury and worthy of bequest ( 'There are 4 very fine smocks in your father 's little linen trunk and one of my four breadth Holland sheets for your own girl Peg … and I desire your father that he will not let any of my household linen be sold , but that it may go to you and your eldest son and I hope to his son too , only some of my broderies of my own making give to your sister . ' ) . |
| 24 | I shall be illustrating each of these four views of style with one of my four examples of modern stylistics , but let me first say exactly what my headings mean . |
| 25 | She was by far the quietest , as well as much the nicest , of my four aunts , and normally a rather shy woman . |
| 26 | Er so I think the first of my four points is the is the airframe agility , clearly the the ability to m manoeuvre . |
| 27 | Doreen said : ‘ I 've been really lucky in that I 've enjoyed everyone of my 34 years with the company . |
| 28 | When I returned , six of my eleven chicks had died , but I said nothing . |
| 29 | But I believe he has the potential to become the best of my six world champions . |
| 30 | I come from a fanatically rugby-conscious Welsh miner 's family ; five of my six brothers played it with some distinction . |