Example sentences of "[num] [noun] of [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think what I 'll do , you 've got about forty minutes of it today , you 'll get Carl Rogers working with a client called er and then we 'll stop there and then next week you 'll see the er the next behaviourist called er called erm Arnold Lazarus , okay , who you might wan he 's got a book called Multi Modal Therapy which was a big hit about ten years ago and there 's about five copies in the library . |
| 2 | I 've done just over fifty percent of them so far . |
| 3 | Three members of it silently vow |
| 4 | What are the three parts of it please ? |
| 5 | bought it for the dog and about fifty quid of it altogether |
| 6 | Just ten or fifteen minutes of it now would see him right , a short trip out through the islets and mudbanks where you could let the boat drift , lean over the stern and watch the inner life of the dirty green water , the shreds of seaweed and small branches and other shapes that sometimes proved to be alive , or focus on the surface , a depthless sheet of scum on which the pearly light shimmered in continual shifting patterns , or even look up to see a huge modern building , several storeys high , going for a stroll along a neighbouring island , the superstructure of a freighter putting out to sea along the deep-water channel … |
| 7 | One girlfriend of mine recently caught the man she lives with holding a bottle of her moisturizer . |
| 8 | A 1592 manuscript of his highly influential Theories on Calligraphy and Painting is loaned by the Beijing Palace Museum . |
| 9 | Laura gave a low moan as she struggled to sit up , one half of her still almost unconscious mind noticing that Ross must have recently had a shower , since his black hair was still damp and he was wearing nothing but a short white towel about his waist . |
| 10 | She sat balanced precariously on one cheek of her behind on one side of the high stool . |
| 11 | for many hours on day one the river seemed amazingly narrow , one bank of it always being on the front end of my canoe . |
| 12 | Soon Maggie held a golden ball of thread and St Margaret had one end of it firmly attached to her finger . |
| 13 | But then , with Matilda concentrating fiercely , one end of it slowly lifted up about an inch off the table-top . |
| 14 | He came closer to the desk , sitting easily on one corner of it so that their eyes were almost on a level . |
| 15 | Positive as ever , however , Kylie did admit to looking forward to one element of her new found freedom . |
| 16 | hundred percent of it then if this is so good ? |
| 17 | Now that , that Street with , with , from two hundred yards of it there 'd be nine , nine terraces each with twenty four houses in each terrace within this two hundred yards so there were a lot of people closely knit together and er there was quite a lot of unem unemployment , quite a lot of poverty . |
| 18 | Depends how much ma if you , maybe new P C these days , it would normally have it already on it four thousand K of memory , and three thousand left could be converted to expanded memory , but it 's not worth it only use five hundred K of it probably . |
| 19 | REGARDING your article on fuel wastage in Belfast , I have come across two instances of it lately . |
| 20 | Those assumptions could no longer be made by Mr Crosland 's Commission , although one or two members of it plainly wished that they could . |