Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [prep] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I try to think of them as people first . ’ |
| 2 | ( Remember a penny then was not a penny now — there were 240 of them to £1 ! ) |
| 3 | It should be possible to live in any one of them without staff , though some might need a large and willing family to maintain them . |
| 4 | Letters pour into the correspondence columns from all over — some of them from people who sound several years older than himself , and some of them from the most exclusive neighbourhoods , well beyond the pockets of any of his friends . |
| 5 | I picked it up from a golfing friend of mine for £25 back in the early Sixties . |
| 6 | For another thing , I told a friend of mine at Corps to shuffle his documents if the frogs started looking for us . |
| 7 | Perhaps the Minister could clarify the impression given by the Hon. Member for Tayside , North ( Mr. Walker ) , who believes that it is all right to buy from the public purse something for £2 million and then to sell off a fraction of it for £4 1 million a fortnight later as long as the proceeds of the sale go to buses . |
| 8 | … We depend on the media for our life-blood , the stream of information , the adventures , the violence , the romance , … the eternal commentary that lines our lives like a loving companion , a double , making sense of it for us. ( 30–1 ) |
| 9 | No , it 's Serumchromoglycate with it What it What 's it Now we know We know all about that cos we a lot of it in aspirin and problems with noses and things like that , but er I was n't aware that it was actually used by mouth for this . |
| 10 | Housing benefit was never payable in addition to income support , but was used in place of it by people who would not have qualified for income support , such as people living in a room run by a close relative , the long-term disabled and various other categories of people under pensionable age who were not eligible . |
| 11 | Central government may assign a local authority a large guideline figure for capital expenditure but also assume it will finance a lot of it from sales of council houses , for example , and hence give a small credit approval . |
| 12 | I think I 've been up and down to the Big Smoke more times since Christmas than I have in the past two years — and the jaunt next weekend — at long last Mark & I have managed to use a Boots free train ticket voucher — two of us for £45.55 — Baaargain ! |
| 13 | I do n't reckon they even think of us as people at all . |