Example sentences of "of [pron] they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Elisabeth recalled the picnic in the bay ; they had grilled plaice on top of a fire in the ashes of which they had baked potatoes . |
2 | Transnational practices are , of course , abstract concepts , but they refer directly to the practices of agents and derive meaning from the institutional settings in which they occur , and because of which they have determinate effects . |
3 | On this particular day , they had been shooting at Taos and at the end of it they dropped some acid and took off with two other friends to visit the nearby tomb of D.H . |
4 | Companies in future will be able to write off against taxes only the first $1 million of what they pay any director or executive . |
5 | The problem is as they know in their heart of hearts much of what they propose this year is not sustainable in future years . |
6 | Psychologists have also found that gradation facilitates the prevention of what they call retroactive inhibition , whereby new material is confused with old material in such a way that neither can be remembered . |