Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [vb past] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against Fareham the juniors trailed 2-1 at half-time , but a change of tactics brought them a 6-2 win . |
| 2 | Arnold was of Tom Arnold 's circus , and his post as the vice-chairman of the party in charge of candidates made him a target of all those who were eager to stand for Parliament . |
| 3 | And the recently discovered structure of atoms gave them the idea that they could make helium out of hydrogen . |
| 4 | My twin sister is a nurse and I suppose all the blood and thunder of things took me a different way . |
| 5 | At either end of the village two long avenues of trees gave it a friendly air . |
| 6 | A lot of girls compromised themselves a great deal more than I did . ’ |
| 7 | But hard as John Meaney tried he found it an uphill struggle against Hughes , who was firing on all cylinders , and his great ‘ cool ’ blessed with a wide repertoire of shots saw him a worthy winner 4–0 from seven frames . |
| 8 | Buckley says she has never been aware of a problem of discrimination in the company , at least in a corporate sense , ‘ but I think a lot of men found it a problem ’ . |
| 9 | The charge was reasonable enough — a few pence per bird — and with a community in which many families kept hens or whose menfolk were able to buy them direct from the country farmer Rev. Levitt 's qualification as a slaughterer of fowls brought him a regular , if modest , bonus on his salary . |