Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For minor members of foreign missions , of whom ambassadors ' secretaries were the most important , gold chains continued during much of the seventeenth century to be a very common form of gift all over Europe . |
| 2 | Time-Warner defended Ice-T 's rap song Cop Killer — ‘ bust some shots off , dust some cops off ’ — on grounds of freedom of expression ; while the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has allegedly encouraged film-makers to focus on the most degraded aspects of human nature , showering Oscars on The Silence of the Lambs , the story of two serial killers , one of whom skins people while the other eats them . |
| 3 | The emergence of the stream-of-consciousness novel at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was obviously related to a huge epistemological shift in culture at large , from locating reality in the objective world of actions and things as perceived by common sense , to locating it in the minds of individual thinking subjects , each of whom constructs their own reality , and has difficulty in matching it with the reality constructed by others . |
| 4 | When Serena reads an article on the plane to Greece about a pair of Siamese twins , one of whom dies , she realizes that she and Stella are like Siamese twins joined at the psyche ( 40 ) . |
| 5 | The money will go to support Scottish composers , all but one of whom lives on native soil . |
| 6 | The main focus of the moh lam is the plight of two young men , one of whom catches AIDS . |
| 7 | A major exception to the principle of proportionality relates to the sentencing of offenders for violent and sexual offences , in respect of whom courts are empowered to pass longer sentences than are ‘ commensurate ’ if they consider it necessary ‘ to protect the public from serious harm from the offender ’ ( section 2(2) ( b ) ) . |
| 8 | None can provide a definitive answer to the question of whom resources should be spent on . |
| 9 | The rest of the time , they were not disposed to look at Peter as a human being , but only as a rector , a creature of whom standards of motive and conduct were expected that they did not expect of themselves . |
| 10 | Within SCOTVEC , responsibility for developing and updating vocational qualifications lies with five Assistant Directors , each of whom leads a team of staff . |
| 11 | It is a role passed from character to character , each of whom makes different use of it . |
| 12 | Moreover , such comment is liable to prove all the more harmful after a Calcutta Cup in which — for all the criticism that the scrum-half should have fed his backs more — Morris so tellingly demonstrated with Stuart Barnes the value under the current laws of having two half-backs , each of whom poses a very real threat in his own right . |
| 13 | I have a couple of times , like when one of me friends brought some home on a ship from Thailand or somewhere . |
| 14 | I 'd been living away and when I first come back into the area a few of me friends was into it . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll scream the place down , I 'll tell Bessie you tried to ruin me virtue , I 'll tear some of me clothes to prove it . ’ |
| 16 | A lot of me mates are black geezers and some of them are a bit tasty ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Always knew you were one of me mates , ’ said Archie , highly gratified that things had suddenly been made easy for him . |
| 18 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 19 | I robbed a bloke in the park with two of me mates , a lad and a lass . |
| 20 | I might want to take one of me girl-friends out there one of these nights . |
| 21 | Aye , and I have all me hair and most of me teeth and that 's more than many men ten years younger can boast of ! ’ |
| 22 | Take it out of me wages . ’ |
| 23 | — And I was going to take one of me sleeping-pills . |
| 24 | Sit and listen to Madam Correctness for the rest of me days ? |
| 25 | When I think of me days of pain and sufferin' here , and how I 've kept cheerful and 'elpful so as not to be a burden , as well as givin' you the benefit of me company so that you could 'ave someone to talk to , well , it 's a shock to me to find you lazin' about with a gypsy woman on your lap . |
| 26 | It used to make me really mad because some of me brothers and sisters used to get put in the same homes together , but I was always on my own . |
| 27 | Well , as no-one 'ad bought any of me violets or treated me to a sandwich , and me near dyin' of starvation , with no job and no lodgings , well , I was so desperate I went up and grabbed the wallet , which Blackbeard was wavin' about at Dan Pearson . |
| 28 | But the hoppers they used to be , er two hoppers we had two of them hoppers , we had the er one called the |
| 29 | A similar attack on a passenger train near the same town occurred on May 12 , when at least 40 people were killed , most of them miners returning from South Africa . |
| 30 | ‘ You came up against outdoor players , many of them farmers who would simply barrel you backwards in the tight and , if they got to you , in the loose . ’ |