Example sentences of "of [pron] [adv] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the words came , they were hissed and halting , each of them separately delivered and stressed and they were in answer to Harry 's first remark as if those that had followed had not yet been absorbed . |
| 2 | The white boys admire the cheek of the black lad who nicks their Kentucky'n'chips , as well as wanting to beat him up for it , just as many of them secretly envy and try to emulate the black street style which at another level they experience as so invasive . |
| 3 | The rest of them just paused and hesitated . |
| 4 | The materials you will be expected to use and enjoy will include a wide range of nursing journals , some of them well established and some which are entirely new to the market . |
| 5 | Mr Nasta has used two large rooms to display the works , all of them privately owned and personally lent for the occasion . |
| 6 | Foreign Minister Joaquín Ricardo García was quoted by local radio as saying on July 18 that a total of 13,000 Haitian citizens , most of whom were migrant workers , had left the country " in the last few days " , 2,000 of them forcibly repatriated and the rest having left " voluntarily " . |
| 7 | Carrie thought of all the people she knew in the world , all of them still eating and breathing and walking about , and then of Mrs Gotobed , lying still . |
| 8 | They have twenty six mig 21s and 15 Su 22 , some of them constantly armed and ready for action . |
| 9 | X/Open Co Ltd is about to embark on the largest Xtra process ever : it expects to invite 50 to 75 user groups worldwide to participate , get 35 to 50 of them actually involved and circulate 10,000 multiple-choice questionnaires in six languages : English , French , German , Spanish , Chinese and Japanese ; it is now trying to figure out how to get feedback from the non-industrial nations ; results will probably appear in Rome in early December . |
| 10 | It expects to invite 50–75 user groups worldwide to participate , get 35–50 of them actually involved and circulate 10,000 multiple-choice questionnaires in six languages : English , French , German , Spanish , Chinese and Japanese . |
| 11 | You will find that we have invited three outside lecturers during the year , all of them highly recommended and each covering a completely different area of work . |
| 12 | He had all his old weapons about him , all of them lovingly cleaned and oiled and ready . |
| 13 | She 's had two or three of them home to stay and things . |
| 14 | The owner 's cabin is situated on the main deck and four double guest cabins are on the lower deck , each of them fully equipped and with bathrooms ensuite . |
| 15 | Among book ephemera I must also spare a paragraph for the modest bookmark , much neglected and too little chronicled.2 I do not , of course , refer to improvised examples such as scraps of brown paper and bacon rinds , but to the commercially produced strips of silk , paper and card , some of them elaborately lettered and decorated , deckled , frilled , tassled and ribboned . |
| 16 | Even the oldest machines can reach average speeds of 12 miles an hour … all of them painstakingly restored and maintained … |
| 17 | ‘ Is this decision of yours just to try and thwart me , or do you have any particular reason ? ’ |
| 18 | He revealed the background of his little failing and what he was doing about it when talking to me about our tele-coaching scheme . |
| 19 | Because of his fully integrated and flowing plans , his fitted furniture , and his stripped exteriors , Scott has often been seen as one of the fathers of Modernism . |
| 20 | The students ' sense of achievement , heightened by the success of their carefully prepared and organised presentation , was an intended outcome fully attained . |
| 21 | This was done by a series of pas marchés each of which softly rose and fell through her feet from toe to heel . |
| 22 | At the time of her appointment , Fohrbeck , who is a distinguished sociologist and studied under the renowned philosopher Jürgen Habermas , made no mention of her firmly held and openly practised faith . |
| 23 | Nonetheless Count Christoph Douglas , head of Sotheby 's in Germany , declared that he has ‘ complete confidence in Berlin ’ as a location and with the level and amount of bidding at the sale , some of it keenly fought and much of it this time conducted by telephone . |
| 24 | After they 've scalded my ears with their abuse for a few weeks , and paraded my wreckage before the assembled ranks as an edifying example of what not to do and how not to do it , they will probably just turn me into a stone gargoyle on the roof of some Gothic cathedral . |