Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun pl] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you put some of them scraps in it ? |
| 2 | The smell of them lies on my stomach now , ’ and she glared at Midnight . |
| 3 | There are people to see at the Embassy , a number of them friends of mine . |
| 4 | Pick up one of them bags for her I were n't watching anyway out |
| 5 | and they 'll be here half an hour or three quarters of an hour , he smoked four cigarettes , now it takes all day and all night to get rid of them fumes of his cigarettes |
| 6 | And a bloke come in garage yesterday , he 's just one of them hoovers like yours . |
| 7 | They had tried out various ‘ templates ’ — all of them embellishments on what already existed — but none of them had shown the kind of delicacy required . |
| 8 | All of them volunteers with nothing but a rudimentary knowledge of psychology and , possibly , their own experience as parents to help them , they grappled with problems that challenged the skills of the best doctors and psychiatrists . |
| 9 | Once the little ones had left the room , I shifted my position on the floor and sat cross-legged , trying to cover the soles of my feet with my skirt . |
| 10 | He was sitting underneath a high bit of cliff with my purple stripy barrel-bag beside him and a sheaf of my dreams in his hands . |
| 11 | It was something of a shock to see one Polynesian , his face a wide grin , trot down the gangplank carrying a sack of flour on his head and one of my suitcases in his right hand . |
| 12 | For example , I share a greater proportion of my genes with my sister than I do with my cousin . |
| 13 | Being another only child , and as my father 's job had kept my parents in Singapore for the last two years , I now spent most of my holidays with my aunt and cousin , timing them to come in Dickie 's school holidays . |
| 14 | Occasionally linen , holland or cerecloth would have been specially bought in for this purpose rather than sacrificing a useful item of domestic furnishing in an age when linen of any appreciable width was a luxury and worthy of bequest ( 'There are 4 very fine smocks in your father 's little linen trunk and one of my four breadth Holland sheets for your own girl Peg … and I desire your father that he will not let any of my household linen be sold , but that it may go to you and your eldest son and I hope to his son too , only some of my broderies of my own making give to your sister . ' ) . |
| 15 | I owe many of my successes to them . ’ |
| 16 | Erm eventually er , one of my teachers in my school had migrated to this country and he was living in Southall at that time and he was working in a bakery . |
| 17 | Their dossiers should be kept complete , as complete as those of my friends to whom copies of the present missive have been sent . |
| 18 | I got on the bus with some of my friends with whom I went with to primary school . |
| 19 | And Oi 'll have some of my friends wi' me . |
| 20 | I want one of my teams on it . |
| 21 | ‘ If I loved him , replied the river , ‘ it was because , when he leaned over my water , I saw the reflection of my waters in his eyes . ’ |
| 22 | You 're frightened of the feel of my arms about you . |
| 23 | He wrote many of my letters for me , and helped me . |
| 24 | The whole tone of my contacts with them was that Mills was , ’ he paused to scratch his eyelid , ‘ 'burnt out ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ My friend Sarah makes most of my clothes for me . |
| 26 | Then she would search for the flea , going along the seams of my clothes with her thumbnail until it jumped . |
| 27 | One of my memories of my holiday in that beautiful city in the Aegean is of attending a football match with my brother and our children . |
| 28 | I left him in charge of the whole of my affairs during my absence from England , with a perfect conviction that he would zealously exert himself for my interest , and the confidence I reposed in him has been fully realised , not only during my absence , but during the long period of eighteen years . ’ |
| 29 | wan na get one of my shoes on my way out . |
| 30 | Since I was asking young women to talk freely about a highly personal and intimate area of their lives , I thought it only fair that I should also tell my own story , and set out some of my reasons for my interest in the subject . |