Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar letters were addressed to A and to the company , neither of whom had at that time been charged with any offence under the Act . |
| 2 | both of whom phoned in this afternoon . |
| 3 | A Conservative government , if you believe their manifesto , ought not even to be considering putting money into dying private-sector firms , but Huerter employ a lot of people , many of whom voted for this government . |
| 4 | She should go back to her own bed and not risk either of them getting into more trouble , but he liked having the silly little thing cuddled up to him like a rabbit . |
| 5 | Most of them reappear with little change in the ‘ Ainulindalé ’ or ‘ Valaquenta ’ . |
| 6 | The three of them looked at each other , and Husband said cautiously : ‘ If you say a matter of hours , you do mean tonight ? ’ |
| 7 | The three of them looked into each other 's faces , and seemed to breathe more freely . |
| 8 | Few of them recovered from this experience . |
| 9 | The trouble was , there were too many of them packed into this room . |
| 10 | Several groups of them specialise in this diet and each has evolved a long sticky tongue entirely independently : a marsupial , the numbat , in Australia ; a distant relative of primitive antelopes , the aardvark in Africa ; the pangolins of Asia and Africa which are covered in a mail of horny plates so that they resemble giant animated fir-cones ; and the three very different ant-eaters of South America , the gazelle-sized giant of the savannahs , the squirrel-sized pygmy from the forest canopy , and the monkey-sized tamandua from its mid-storey . |
| 11 | Send one of them to talk to this chap Jordan — Fowler will do it very well ; he 'd have been more than a match for the Ancient Mariner . |
| 12 | Nairn , as a holiday resort , has the name ‘ the Rye of the North ’ , and along the shore and near the golf clubs — one of them built on that land donated by David Thomson 's great-uncle — people park caravans hoping for mildness from the Moray Firth . |
| 13 | Was it Gregory Peck or one of them walked into this studio in America , oh James Stewart was it ? |
| 14 | There have been many positive developments , a large number of them led by this country such as the introduction of the single market . |
| 15 | A batch of them came in this morning . ’ |
| 16 | When questioned further very few of them thought of this God or power as a man , but either as a person without a body or as something like air or gas , and a few said they did not know or that there was no God . |
| 17 | I er I nearly fell through the floor a little while ago I was British Gas people and one of them living with this lady and I want to give her half of my lump sum , how can I do to avoid er to effect her income tax or inheritance tax thinking in terms of the inheritance tax limit of a hundred and fifty thousand I said , Well would you mind telling me about how much it will be ? |
| 18 | So , when they had finished their ward round , the two of them went to each patient in turn and inquired tactfully whether they ate earth . |
| 19 | They presented a target thus for only a matter of seconds , though three of them fell in that time ; then they were hand-to-hand and at blows with the prince 's bodyguard and this was battle as it had formerly been understood between knights , and the hovering archers were crippled and out of the fight . |
| 20 | The differing styles of these articles mean they are not all suited to publication in similar outlets , but it is hoped that unlike past years ' winners we shall see all of them published in some form or other in the coming year . |
| 21 | If they became angry at things said to them by professionals , as a majority of them did at some point , the horrifying causes of their anger were true , and were not projections of their own distress on to the professional concerned . |
| 22 | I thought it particularly nice of them to write at such length , as I had mistakenly called Roy Griffiths Mister ! |
| 23 | They form a group in the courtyard , some of them talking to each other , some walking up and down , one chatting to the policeman at the gate . |
| 24 | Some of them appear in this book , but all of them were immeasurably helpful in developing my thoughts . |
| 25 | She felt completely comfortable in her presence , and the two of them talked to each other more or less as equals . |
| 26 | Imagine with me Chairman if you will the thoughts of someone trapped by some misfortune in the midst of the wreckage of a road traffic accident on the M 1 motorway Southbound between junctions twenty one and twenty that 's at Nutterworth or Northbound between twenty one and twenty two or Westbound on the M 69 they 'll be thinking the fire brigade 'll be here in a minute or two . |
| 27 | The work as a whole reflects the experience and preoccupations of a palatine cleric , and it addresses the questions of someone reared in that milieu . |
| 28 | While the booksellers were looking at his books he would quietly nick a few of theirs to sell to another shop . |
| 29 | Those in search of the classical paradise of golden beaches and tranquillity must treat Tahiti merely as a landing stage , and move on to better things , to nearby coral islands , lagoons and atolls , all of which abound in this part of the Pacific . |
| 30 | The pair , who work in the Process Studies department at Harwell , made a lot of contacts — a few of which resulted in more work for AEA — when researching the manual . |