Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long pallid hospital morning passed with interruptions from the nursing , cleaning , and auxiliary stall , all of whom gravitated to the bed , where they were received by the nice-looking Mr Blake , who was in terrible pain , with grave correctness . |
| 2 | At the time of the accident , 135 men were underground , 6 of whom escaped to the surface immediately , and the rest were trapped . |
| 3 | She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . " |
| 4 | The king did not lack military resources , but they were useless if the men who were placed in command of them defected to the enemy . |
| 5 | Just last week a survey by Brook Advisory Centres revealed an estimated 84,000 15 year old girls are sexually active , yet just 18,000 of them go to a family planning clinic . |
| 6 | But there are quite a few contracts which are still temporary , most of them go to the end of June . |
| 7 | of them go to the weight training at . |
| 8 | if any of them relate to a procedure we take it at the same time so that we do n't have to do it again , or not ? |
| 9 | The three of them rode to the bank of the river , dismounted , then slipped quickly through the underbrush . |
| 10 | ‘ What do you know best ? ’ she asked , slipping her arm round Beth 's slim waist as the two of them sauntered to the door . |
| 11 | Neither of them conforms to the default format , but they both work . |
| 12 | Faced with that band of silent men , the two riders ' headlong rush veered and slowed , and one of them dropped to a loiter . |
| 13 | The three of them returned to the car . |
| 14 | Then the pair of them returned to the place of the burnt-out patch and in the relative safety of that refuge huddled there as the bush fire swept down on them . |
| 15 | The horse stamped anxiously as stones were dislodged , but instinct kept him still and soon Felipe was beside Maggie , both of them pressed to the edge of the cliff . |
| 16 | He could have sat down with only one of them and achieved the same guidance on weight and machining capability , but three of them came to the meeting , which he thought typical of engineers . |
| 17 | We are committed to other such generalizations , less simple , one of them related to the fact that a circumstance is dependently-necessary to the occurrence of an effect . |
| 18 | In the main , both of them belonged to the past , but Anselm was more conservative than Lanfranc . |
| 19 | The granaries were completed and provided with an imposing portico fronting the street ; an imperial dedication jointly to Septimius Severus , Caracalla and Geta from one of them refers to the construction by an unknown legionary vexillation during the governorship of Alfenus Senecio . |
| 20 | Then , one of them went to a cash machine to try to get money from her account . |
| 21 | When he staggered out at Swiss Cottage the youngest and tallest of them went to the door , apparently to check that he did not re-enter the train . |
| 22 | One of them went to the toilet . |
| 23 | By late 1938 , in fact , the evident lack of official preparedness was causing concern both to outside bodies like the National Union of Teachers ( who frequently complained about it ) and to Civil Defence Regional Commissioners : for example , on 28 September 1938 one of them wrote to the Ministry of Health from his headquarters at Maidstone that : |
| 24 | If one of them succumbed to the temptation to defect , it would very probably end up with fewer points than 600 because of retaliation by the other player ( most of the submitted strategies had some kind of retaliatory behaviour built into them ) . |
| 25 | If one of them succumbed to the temptation to defect , it would very probably end up with fewer points than 600 because of retaliation by the other player ( most of the submitted strategies had some kind of retaliatory behaviour built into them ) . |
| 26 | The first is the threat which a growing number of them see to the strength and stability of their currency . |
| 27 | All of them add to the quality of life of the residents , and many of them may also help you enjoy your work too . |
| 28 | Then the three of them talk to a radio interviewer from The Coca-Cola Euro Chart Hot 100 show . |
| 29 | I can easily walk out onto the streets to do some shopping : the centre of the town is crammed with funny little shops of all kinds , bars , cafes , etc. , many of them open to the street , there was even a shop selling nothing but plastic bags ( they did n't seem to be doing much of a trade ) . |
| 30 | The car ahead of them squealed to a halt , crashed backwards across the road into a stone wall , and came to an abrupt stop . |