Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could name at least three of my friends who would have been prompt to offer this undeniably attractive young man a doss down on the sofa , and one of them who would have already been thinking of taking him upstairs for the night … |
| 2 | If she married one of them she could look forward to a life of uncertainty , warfare , shortages , assassinations , massacres and tragedy . |
| 3 | The curving windows at the stern are freckled with spray ; through one of them you can make out a set of fat capstans and a listless macaroni of sodden rope . |
| 4 | So some of them you can work out buy if you know what a transformer does , it steps down all of the current , it reduces the voltage . |
| 5 | Exercise 1 : Try playing the children 's party game where you spend two minutes looking at an assortment of small items on a tray , then cover them with a cloth and see how many of them you can write down . |
| 6 | I would have liked to have checked at once on the state of the horses , but I supposed if there were something wrong with any of them I would hear soon enough . |
| 7 | Anyway , thank you all very much , er some of you we will see again tomorrow , ten o'clock . |
| 8 | And I would dare those of you who would look up the newspaper clippings of that occasion and challenge that view , because you would find a much different reading in those newspaper clips than what I learnt many years later , trudging round the island , Personally I thought that I was being particularly clever bombing a seaplane that was taking off , It was only when I was serving on Sylt in the fifties that I learned that this was in fact a tug ( or you might call it a barge , a sea-going barge ) on the end of 100 metres of line , that was being towed . |
| 9 | See you just start off by going through them one by one and consider what point is being made in each and those of you who 'd like just to move round and join these two ladies . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know whether you 're one of those who are interested in such things — from what I know of you I 'd say probably not . |
| 11 | ‘ By the look of it I would think so . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |