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 .
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