Example sentences of "of [pron] he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His will ( 3 October 1425 ) is an attractive snapshot of an old man at peace in a little world of cathedral , household , and staff , for all of whom he made careful provision in a modest , surprisingly austere account . |
| 2 | He did not actually handle or take possession of any documents , and is unable to substantiate the detail or authenticity of papers of which he had some sight . ’ |
| 3 | He did not actually handle or take possession of any documents , and is unable to substantiate the detail or authenticity of papers of which he had some sight . ’ |
| 4 | In his account of the final stage , it is as if the unheard melody of which he had some intimation suddenly becomes audible and transposes all his experience into its terms : In my prayer I was reaching out to heaven with heartfelt longing when I became aware , in a way I can not explain , of a symphony of song , and in myself I sensed a corresponding harmony at once wholly delectable and heavenly , which persisted in my mind . |
| 5 | In the thirty-six years of which he had conscious memory of Mrs Farr Senior , their relationship had never developed beyond the ‘ is n't it a nice day ? ’ stage . |
| 6 | He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1822 and spent the remainder of his life as a leading public figure in Lincoln , of which he became high steward , and its county . |
| 7 | Lastly , there is his first ‘ model ’ of agriculture , with its paupers , ruthless exploitation etc. , of which he says pre-revolutionary Russia was an example . |
| 8 | In 1950 Hoffnung began a career as a broadcaster , during the course of which he made many appearances on the radio as both raconteur and panel member . |
| 9 | The door opened and the Adjutant entered with a large file out of which he produced several sheets of foolscap . |
| 10 | William Clark , who was press adviser to Anthony Eden during his premiership , wrote , while under sentence of death from the cancer of which he died last year , a book of mémoires d'outre tombe in the unconventional yet quite literal sense of that description . |
| 11 | Kenneth Andrew Sanderson , of Wallace Avenue , Huyton , was sentenced in January 1991 after a Southampton Crown Court jury found him guilty of the two robberies for each of which he received seven years , concurrent ; he got six months concurrent for an admitted burglary . |
| 12 | The Committee 's 23rd report refers to the failure of the experiment of accepting the services of a young Dutchman , Mr Vincent van Gogh , and goes on to cite his spirit of self-sacrifice , his admirable qualities in aiding the sick and wounded , and his devotion , ‘ of which he gave many proofs ’ . |
| 13 | In France they have devised a logical system whereby senior officials of the Bureau d'Enquête d'Accident are formally recognised by the magistrate as officials of his court , thereby relieving the magistrate himself of much responsibility relating to highly technical matters of which he has little comprehension while at the same time enabling the professional investigators immediate access to the wreckage of the aircraft and its records , etc. in their pursuit of the cause of the accident . |
| 14 | Golding ) , he was , I agree , referring to a new phenomenon of which he has personal experience . |
| 15 | Of the more than fifty books to come from the press , there is no doubt that the finest was his Chaucer of 1896 , reckoned by many to be the greatest book printed in England since Caxton , of which he printed 425 copies with an additional thirteen on vellum . |
| 16 | His reputation as a superstar of search , as the king of Manhattan headhunters , grew rapidly , partly through effective self-promotion but mostly because of a series of prominent , high-level successful search assignments , in the course of which he placed more CEOs and presidents of top American companies than any other consultant . |
| 17 | His last literary project was a verse translation of Oppian 's Halieuticks , of which he completed two books , published posthumously ( 1722 ) . |
| 18 | An author named Henri Martin , who wrote under the name of Barzun , published a ‘ Manifeste sur le simultanisme poétique ’ , and disputed with Apollinaire the invention of what he called literary Simultaneism . |