Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Some sociologists claim that an individual 's class position is largely achieved ; it results from their personal qualities and abilities and the use they make of them rather than ascribed characteristics such as the status of their parents or the colour of their skin . |
| 32 | More than 4,400 Teesside homes now stood within 200 metres of overhead lines , almost 900 of them closer than 50 metres . |
| 33 | So he 's got all his bricks up virtually I think he said , but I ai n't worried about it cos I 'll get rid of them somewhere and I helped him out , I sold this car and , and told him what I was doing and he come I 've just the thing for you , just cos was having bricks like your dad 's , the sand grain sort of brick , you know . |
| 34 | Sunil had sent three of them tonight and if he kept that rate up they 'd need a double-decker bus to follow me by Christmas Eve . |
| 35 | And she went on a party of three , no , no , she went with a party of four friends I think , there were five of them altogether and er she stayed for well er , three nights , four days , or four days , three nights I ca n't remember no , it must have been four days , four nights , three days . |
| 36 | And the , several times I 've bought picture of them particularly because I have n't had to pay the postage , |
| 37 | She threw all of them away except one , then realised how silly and significant it would be to arrive on his doorstep with one daffodil ; she tucked it into the contents of an overflowing litter bin and arrived at Alan 's empty-handed . |
| 38 | We suspected they were not made of sheepskin at all er and we took some of them away and analyzed them to find out what exactly are they made of . |
| 39 | " We can take most of them apart and use the materials again — which is what the government wants us to do . " |
| 40 | They assault the sense , savage the palate , ravage one 's innards and announce themselves in loud , pungent terms so that one gets wind of them long before one catches sight of them . |
| 41 | Now we we 'll have done some of them there and I do n't want you to look there okay I want you to just try it |
| 42 | And there 's nobody shrieking at them and there 's only twelve of them there and you know , nobody 's getting cross with anybody . |
| 43 | they 've erm , erm fifty-eight 's up at Black Bridge , they used to be three of them there and , one of them was used in the |
| 44 | and I 've heard him say oh can I go and play with such a boy , he said he likes going to Kirsty , Kirsty and Hannah and Kirsty and Graham he 's quite fond of them too and Adam |
| 45 | If you stir enough of them together and stand back for a few hundred million years , the result is likely to be a chemical entity capable of reproducing itself — one of the fundamental differences between living and nonliving material . |
| 46 | It was true that there were usually two of them together and he remembered thinking at the time that the other one was probably in a shop begging . |
| 47 | half of them less than £100000 . |
| 48 | In 1907 about 2,250,000 German peasants had from 5 to 250 acres apiece , most of them less than 50 . |
| 49 | Evelyn looked across at Rose sitting in the midst of them all but managing somehow to remain completely apart . |
| 50 | So think of a question for each of them then and write then down what you might ask them . |
| 51 | Pearce nevertheless made a point of visiting every single British Aerospace factory at one time or another during his seven years as chairman , some of them more than once . |
| 52 | One of them more than most . |
| 53 | Any café 'll do , but you ca n't use any of them more than once in a while or they start chucking you out . |
| 54 | The formula is unique ; over half our guests return — many of them more than six times . |
| 55 | Yet it had still taken the pair of them more than two hours to assemble and photocopy the material that Morse had so confidently predicted would be found . |
| 56 | Some of them more than that one was advertised for . |
| 57 | From the twentieth century point of view it can be appreciated that naturally occurring compounds contain what , from the point of view of theoretical chemistry , is an arbitrary and theoretically uninteresting mixture of isotopes so that , as F. Soddy remarked , the painstaking endeavour of the nineteenth century chemists ‘ appears as of as little interest and significance as the determination of the average weight of a collection of bottles , some of them full and some of them more or less empty ’ . |
| 58 | She had a crop of them now that she could n't get rid of , even though she was using that acne treatment that worked wonders for the girl on the telly advert . |
| 59 | Well you 've had your hands on all of them now so it 's probably highly likely . |
| 60 | They said well er I thought perhaps he was away preaching , she says oh no they do n't want any of m our people used to go out a lot preaching , but they do n't want any of them now because it 's too deep for them |