Example sentences of "[noun] [indef pn] of [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lived in one of those streets running from the Old Brompton Road more or less parallel with the edge of Brompton Cemetery , a territory that seems more or less taken over by typists ' collectives , where groups of girls band together to share flats whose rents none of them could afford individually . |
| 2 | He kept talking about wanting to put things on to a sound financial footing , in which case none of us would have been able to afford to live in the club . |
| 3 | ‘ We actually should have gone to Edinburgh in November to receive the award but as we are all volunteers none of us could make it , ’ said Jean Reid , secretary of Islay and Jura Community Enterprise . |
| 4 | Apt , as it turned out , in a way none of us could have anticipated . ’ |
| 5 | Continuing upon the familiar submissive theme , Rogers asserts that while the apprehension of " great art in its fullness is a goal none of us can hope fully to attain " , it remains " a worthy objective just the same " . |
| 6 | The professors went on : ‘ We are speaking not as members of this or that nation , continent or creed but as human beings , members of the species Man whose continued existence is in doubt … a biological species which has had a remarkable history and whose disappearance none of us can desire . ’ |
| 7 | They spent the day chanting and dancing , and when they came to walk and climb they could be heard speaking Chinese , a language none of them could speak during the rest of the year . |