Example sentences of "[art] [det] of [pron] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | There were the few of us who cared , and there were the silly ones , the snobbish ones , the would-be debutantes and the daddy 's darlings and the horsophiles and the sex-cats . |
2 | These are also ‘ baddies ’ as they make the blood more liable to clot , so the fewer of them you have in your blood the better for your heart . |
3 | Er I , I do bring you greetings , not only from the Association , but from the many of us who served here during World War Two . |
4 | And , of course , the more of them he fulfils , the more substantial becomes his own Messianic claim . |
5 | Yeah sixteen of them , well the more of them you see the cheaper it is |
6 | The more of it I hear , the more I realise that metal music is unparodiable . |
7 | The more of you who do , the more informed our choice of articles etc will be ! |
8 | Or to make the most of what they had , while they could … |
9 | The Horbys themselves say they have to make the most of what they have with Leah . |
10 | We did n't have much , so we learned to make the most of what we did have , and if a man was lucky enough to have a job he put everything into it . |
11 | She was strong enough to carry on , to make the most of what she had left . |
12 | A woman who had made the most of what she 'd got , and done her best to be content . |
13 | 4 Making the most of what it offers |
14 | It 's making the most of what you 've got . |
15 | And you know I went into that film it was just being launched in America , and there was a sort of prologue to the film and er I did n't know whether to , to become terribly angry or , or just about cry because the prologue was as if Britain was a sinking ship you know , this was the last we would see of this great thing and they made the most of it you know , like er i the g the film was the old private schools you know the old w well the public schools in England . |
16 | Go on — excite your palate with a little of what you fancy : the soft , the sharp , the acid tang of novelty . |
17 | ‘ I understand only a little of what you say . |
18 | You can get plenty of what you do n't want and a little of what you do want . |
19 | There were a few of them who put it straight at me and I was forced into getting into rows . |
20 | ‘ It 's only a few of them who do n't believe , ’ explained Beuno . |
21 | See I 've got to remember , you see a few of them I had a load of them all talking , you know when I were at school ? |
22 | Yet there were those who moved easily around the margins , and I am certain the profound effects of this liminal time extended to more than a few of us who made this transition into structural limbo . |
23 | Anyway , she went out to get some text books , so there was a few of us who thought we 'd have a bit of a laugh , do something to catch her out . |