Example sentences of "of [pron] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1987 there were 3,500 new recruits , each of whom passed through a formal selection process . |
| 2 | This figure declined slightly for older children , a growing proportion of whom lived with a natural parent and a step-parent . |
| 3 | So when the team presented three options to the review panel on April 22nd , it was no surprise that one of them looked like a truncated version of a familiar space station , Freedom — with laboratory modules attached to a girdered ‘ truss ’ that carries solar panels for generating power . |
| 4 | Two pints of your best , and have one yourself , ’ one of them said in a loud voice . |
| 5 | " Here mate , " one of them said in a puzzled voice , " You 're a customs officer , what the hell were you doing in there ? |
| 6 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 7 | Bartlemas had an enormous private income , and the pair of them lived in a tall Victorian house in Islington , which was filled to the brim with play-bills , prints , prompt copies , figurines and other souvenirs of their two heroes . |
| 8 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 9 | It is overladen with tear-jerking moments , most of them centred on a big eyed calf that Crystal , roped in as mid- wife , delivers onscreen in the film 's only spot of blood and gore . |
| 10 | One of them dropped into a formal curtsey , revealing both her cleavage and her undergarment , and he smiled grimly . |
| 11 | Most of them returned after a brief and long-awaited glimpse at the West . |
| 12 | In my own section , towards the middle of the cloakroom , I saw to my horror two lines of girls staring at me and giggling , and as I came near , one of them asked in a sarcastic voice where I came from . |
| 13 | The West Indian islands contain less than a dozen active volcanoes , all of them congregated in a small arc at the east of the chain , but one of these , Mt Pelee , was responsible for the most lethal eruption of this century . |
| 14 | Labourers were found in the docks , railways , factories and domestic spheres , many of them employed on a casual basis . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't you dare beat me up , you nasty nasty man , I 'm a policeman ! ’ one of them shrieked in a mocking falsetto . |
| 16 | In January 214 ( 31% ) of them voted for a private member 's bill based on it ( which has little chance of becoming law ) . |
| 17 | One of them shaped like a mobile telephone crashed into a high voltage power line cutting off 500 homes . |
| 18 | Most of them moved towards a similar view of the pacifist tendencies of modern capitalism to that expounded by Norman Angell . |
| 19 | ‘ A Goddamn ! ’ one of them replied in a thick , Scottish accent . |
| 20 | Enter Karl , late , running , dressed in a loosely cut black cotton suit with white embroidered lapels , a black shirt and an embroidered tie , all of them bought on a recent trip to Japan . |
| 21 | Each of them ended in a shiny black shoe . |
| 22 | The Templars were crushed but some of them remained as a secret coven and I have crossed swords with them over the years . |
| 23 | I shall not forget how your husband helped a new and inexperienced Head to see what was wrong with the school 's Art Room , helped also in pressing in the right quarter , for its improvement — all of which resulted in a much-needed tonic for the Art teaching in the school . |
| 24 | THE RSPCA has been criticised for bringing two ‘ home alone ’ court cases , only one of which resulted in a successful prosecution . |
| 25 | In Catnic Components Ltd. v Hill & Smith Ltd. [ 1982 ] , the plaintiff obtained a patent for a load bearing lintel , the main strength of which came from a vertical metal rear face . |
| 26 | Ms Dickinson explained that the committee last year placed four advertisements , two of which appeared in a 16-page December children 's book supplement in the Independent on Sunday . |
| 27 | A trustee in a sequestrated estate , part of which consisted of a public house business , who did not himself hold the certificate or retail excisable liquor , was held not to be disqualified under the corresponding provision then in force : Lundie v. Magistrates of Falkirk ( 1890 ) 18 R. 60 . |
| 28 | The solicitor was strongly professionally oriented : he would regale one with legal anecdotes , the humour of which depended on a prior deferential attitude to barristers and judges ; he was strict in his interpretation of professional ethics . |
| 29 | I bet their gigs are quite fun too although why anyone would want to sit and watch a video of one made by a stoned roadie is anyone 's guess . |
| 30 | Meanwhile his sales of It continued as a profitable sideline . |