Example sentences of "[det] of [pers pn] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 2 | Apart from anything else you ca n't trust half of them because it all goes into interviews . ’ |
| 3 | gazumped , because nobody will take him , cos he knows absolutely nothing , about nothing else apart from butchery , it 's the same with me I ca n't work a computer so I 'm cramped in the way of clerical , it 's no good applying for half of them because you 've got to have keyboard skills and erm computer skills |
| 4 | And for next time I 'll get some erm a special set of tables for him a lot easier to learn so that he can learn his tables and he 'll only have to learn about half of them and then he 'll know all of them . |
| 5 | He said well he 's got rights because he owns half of it , I said owns half of it but he ai n't paying for half of it . |
| 6 | Now somewhere on there we should say what the total is because we could look at this and we could say , well she saves erm half of it but does she , how much does she get ? |
| 7 | So we 'll cut it all down so there 's only about half of it that you need to learn okay and I 'll print you a table out on the computer like that and then you can ask your mum to ask you them . |
| 8 | The cat could have eaten half of it while he had been asleep . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's good to be here , Wayne , ’ he said , and swallowed half of it before he put it down . |
| 10 | Yeah I said well I earn half of it as well then and I 've worked for half of it , but I ai n't paying the bills either |
| 11 | you could kill a pig if you kept , you kept half of it and gave |
| 12 | I 'd opened half of it and the letter was in the other half . |
| 13 | Yeah , but if , should we say well we acc we 'll accept half of it and and |
| 14 | Erm , and feeling there was it must of been he said today I 've cooked Sunday lunch and erm , she ate half of it and I thought then she finished it . |
| 15 | and I used half of it and I put it , put some onion and some sliced potatoes in the oven |
| 16 | And like when he cle does the water he just changes half of it and you know keeps half in and just wipes the glass , just wipes the glass off . |
| 17 | They bought half excuse me half of it and they lived in the basement , then the other half came up for sale so Peter bought the whole lot then |
| 18 | What half of it or more than half or ? |
| 19 | We 'll take that mat out of the way So what if you did get a pound , if you did get a pound Claire would you , would you still save half of it or do you think you might save a bit less than half ? |
| 20 | Bruce Mona can have half of mine and half Kim 's . |
| 21 | At 58 she may be younger than some of them but she is the ‘ mother confessor ’ of Beauchamp Place , seeing all , hearing much but relaying nothing . |
| 22 | Some of them but not very many . |
| 23 | I , I knew some of them but I did n't remember them leaving like . |
| 24 | Where there never many ghost stories speak about some of them but |
| 25 | Throughout the week you come upon games which you see as vital and by the end of the week you have had so many vital games that you have forgotten some of them but one which definitely stood out was the fourball between Howard Clark and Mark James and Curtis Strange and Payne Stewart . |
| 26 | Now I might forget some of them but , er , what about er , you , seeing as how your skill is one that I have n't been able to acquire yet , Jo how did you get to make the perfect quiche . |
| 27 | But I mean i i certainly if you go through the , the early bits erm I mean i i i if you take well okay the , the organization bit to begin with , but then hitting the landlords politically er you know y you 're , you 're checking their accounts , you 're imposing their fines when they 've been a bit naughty , you 're letting contributions erm you 're crowning them and going through the streets , you 're locking them up , you 're banishing some of them , you might be executing some of them but i it 's , it 's only specifically where they 've offended against your , your view of the moral economy , where they , where they 've sort of been naughty in terms of |
| 28 | Yeah , I I just wondered because there are some of them that do n't have any relevance to national curriculum and I want |
| 29 | Erm you had friends everywh , in all sorts of places , you did n't dally , shall we say , in some of them that might have been a bit smelly . |
| 30 | Nice there 's some of them that look as though they 're double . |