Example sentences of "of [pron] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 They bound and gagged two children and then forced one of them to take them to the money .
2 We almost wished we could ask one of them to join us for a meal .
3 In return she showed them the Daimler and invited forty of them to visit her on the Dockers ' yacht , Shemara , where pink champagne was served amid costly fitments which were often detailed in the newspapers .
4 We 're in the Division there with them and we 've we 've got to try and win enough of them to get ourselves into a charging position .
5 It had taken two of them to free me from the current and I was so relieved .
6 ‘ It was very good of you to take them to the sea .
7 It 's incredibly kind of you to meet us on the offchance .
8 Rather , she must have inherited it or bought it at a jumble sale for the sake of something to cover herself as a rest from her everlasting black or perhaps ( most likely ) found it in a drawer of her newly married bedroom , chosen for her by Uncle Philip as suitable for his wife to wear on Sundays .
9 There was enough of it to identify her as the Seren …
10 ‘ T is already in a state of uproar , ready for that ambitious husband of hers to pluck it like an over-ripe plum , rotting and falling from the tree , and — ’
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