Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh pn] [vb past] a " in BNC.
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1 | In reply Jesus told the parable of the two debtors , a simple story about two men , one of whom owed a lot of money and the other a little . |
2 | At the front of the parade , the solemn men in dark suits and bowler hats , one of whom carried a Bible on a purple cushion . |
3 | Michael Manser sold Castle Mill soon after its conversion was complete and since that time it has had two further owners , the first of whom installed a lift linking the ground-floor entrance hall with the first-floor dining-room , the generous volume of which has been somewhat reduced by the intrusion of the lift shaft into its south-west corner . |
4 | He had two daughters , a little older than my mother , both of whom attended a secondary school . |
5 | We were very pleased and honoured to receive a visit from the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress , both of whom displayed a keen interest in our work and were even inveigled , by , into performing with the ‘ Dopple Kloppers ’ , being taught at that session ! |
6 | She had helped enthusiastically with the costumes , making for Mary a trailing blue robe of cornflower taffeta , her own Cambridge May Ball dress sheared apart at the seams , lending or donating bright belts and beads to deck out the three kings , one of whom wore a peacock-feathered turban made of the shot-silk stole she had worn with that dance dress . |
7 | The contrast between sluggish ANC and dynamic ruling party is summed up in the fates of their old leaders , each of whom suffered a stroke in 1989 . |
8 | Prior to the conclusion of the Bensonhurst trial , in the early hours of May 13 a gang in the predominantly black neighbourhood of Brooklyn assaulted three Vietnamese men , one of whom suffered a fractured skull . |
9 | James and Joan had three sons , one of whom became a major in Charles II 's army and drowned in the river at Pershore . |
10 | The jury , also a an international body , then selected twelve semi-finalists , each of whom played a quintet with the Tokyo String Quartet , and a recital which had to include a piece commissioned by the board for the competition , and of which , therefore , there was no standard interpretation . |
11 | At Lajpath Nagar we met up with two musicians , a pair of elderly men , one of whom played a harmonium , the other a pair of tabla drums . |
12 | There were , in fact , many Irish Americans in United Motors at high management levels , all of whom had a nostalgic affection for the ‘ auld counthrie ’ , and indeed for anything Irish ; but that was because most of them had never actually been there . |
13 | In 1945 , the subscriptions rose from five to seven guineas ( four guineas to five guineas for ladies ) , close on a 30% increase for the Men and 25% for the Ladies only one of whom had a handicap at the end of the War . |
14 | It was these brilliant architectural triumphs which so much impressed foreign visitors , many of whom had a professional interest and who came to learn as well as admire . |
15 | In a speech at a North of England conference at the beginning of 1987 Kenneth Baker , the Secretary of State for Education and Science , referred to the eccentricity of the British system of education compared with that of other European countries , all of whom had a national common curriculum . |
16 | Their attack focused on St Margaret 's School in Cricklewood , where they found ten refugee girls , three of whom had a religious background . |
17 | Commercially available expert system shells have been used since most of the expert systems have been developed by engineering tradesmen , few of whom had a strong computing background . |
18 | Accompanying these kids were what appeared to be three extravagant South American transvestites in dresses , rouge and lipstick , one of whom had a used tampon on a piece of string around her neck . |
19 | Jane was thirty-three and had two children , one of whom had a slight speech defect which made Jane very interested in speech therapy . |
20 | The master who went abroad had three servants , each of whom had a certain amount of ability . |
21 | As a further example , the chunk could be used by two users , one of whom had a small default font , and the other a large : again the size of each Title would adapt accordingly . |
22 | The preference of ministers and mandarins — none of whom had a desire to be exposed to public criticism — for the ‘ gentleman 's agreement ’ rather than the public discussion of serious policy issues was equally understandable . |
23 | The control population consisted of 14 volunteer subjects ( nine men , five women ) with mean age of 44 ( range 22 to 72 ) each of whom had a colon oscopic examination with normal results . |
24 | Though chaired by the latitudinarian Anglican , and radical , manufacturer Thomas Walker , it contained a number of Rational Dissenters in the professions — lawyers and doctors — several of whom had an intellectual bent and were active in the discussions of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society , a significant regional conduit for Enlightenment thinking . |
25 | 53 of 150 patients had abnormalities of oxygenation on hospital recordings , 28 of whom had an accompanying clinical event . |
26 | The right hon. Gentleman will be aware that the case for pardoning Derek Bentley was supported by his trial jury , which recommended mercy in 1952 ; by the Lord Chief Justice of the day ; by the trial judge , who said subsequently that he believed that Bentley would not hang ; a subsequent Lord Chancellor , Lord Hailsham ; by many members of another place ; by many right hon. and hon. Members of this House — nearly one third of whom signed a recent early-day motion ; and by millions of our fellow citizens . |
27 | Probably they took friends as well : George-Philip Ehret and Thomas Martyn , both of whom inherited an interest in botany from their respective artistic and academic fathers . |
28 | Perversely , as it must have seemed to penal reformers , the opportunities offered by borstal training , with its reformative aims , were all too often spurned by young offenders , many of whom preferred a prison sentence to borstal training on the grounds that it was usually shorter and for a more certain period . |
29 | A total of 2958 never smokers in 1988 were surveyed in 1990 , 2924 ( 99% ) of whom gave a valid response for smoking status . |
30 | The two of them leapt out of the beached cockboat and strode up past the fishwives , some of whom gave him a " good day " but most of whom preserved a surly silence . |