Example sentences of "[pron] of [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something on the local news about her poking some television woman in the eye , to say nothing of her dancing the night away with John Major . |
| 2 | Boswell does not say which of them raised the question of biography , and somewhat out of context he leads into a comment from Johnson : ‘ Nobody can write the life of a man , but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him . ’ |
| 3 | I have never known which of them did the catering . |
| 4 | Or as they descend the Eastern Terrace after climbing Psycho-Killer or MND , which of them notices the flowering profusion at the back of the terrace — the stonecrops , campion , roseroot and saxifrages ? |
| 5 | ‘ The Panel of Judges was summoned , to decide which of you had the stronger vein of wolfblood , ’ said Dierdriu . |
| 6 | ‘ Which of you has the clap , you or Bible Willie ? |
| 7 | ‘ We will see which of us lasts the longer . |
| 8 | It depends which of us has the most patience . ’ |
| 9 | There 's plenty of us to do the work . ’ |
| 10 | But er however there were none of them struck the camp . |
| 11 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Darlington Railway Preservation Society , explained : ‘ Quite a few historians have written about this building but it seems a bit odd that none of them knew the exact date it opened . |
| 12 | Competition in a market with few suppliers , none of them controlling the market but each relatively large ( oligopoly ) is much more likely to be distorted if one of those suppliers takes over or acquires an interest in another , than in a market characterised by fierce competition among many suppliers . |
| 13 | But at least none of them saw the light of print — until today 's souvenir edition . |
| 14 | But here there was no statutory authority , and although there were several paths that seemed to lead to a solution , none of them went the whole way . |
| 15 | And none of them had the arranged marriages which were normal just one generation earlier . |
| 16 | None of them shared the icy restraint of the last letter . |
| 17 | None of them imagined the number was in fact as high as 500,000 . |
| 18 | Scottish football is littered with morality tales but none of them capture the tragedy of success quite like the story of Peter Marinello . |
| 19 | Thankfully none of them tried the ‘ feely feely ’ business that the Girls loathed . |
| 20 | For the following twenty-seven days I approached everyone I knew , from the Bow Building Society to distant aunts , even fellow-students , but none of them showed the slightest interest in backing a young woman undergraduate to the tune of sixty pounds in order that she could buy a fruit and vegetable shop . |
| 21 | None of them have the wherewithal to conceive of a Reconciliation . |
| 22 | One may hear echoes of this kind of project in I.A. Richards or the New Critics , but they none of them have the same degree of theoretical rigour and consistency , and they do not take the emphasis on the distinctively literary to the same degree . |
| 23 | And none of them has the right kind of tights . |
| 24 | It was the 37-year-old writer 's fifth play after Stop It , Whoever You Are ; Big Soft Nellie ; Nil Carborundum and Kelly 's Eye , none of them making the voyage across the Atlantic . |
| 25 | As he drove back , he had tried each element individually , and none of them broke the pattern . |
| 26 | None of it held the magic of her communication with Friend ; even here , jacked into the shadows , she ached for him but reason told her she would n't find him , long before she stopped looking . |
| 27 | None of it removed the nagging misery from her mind , the horror at the thought of Eleanor Thorne , sweet-natured as she was , being consigned to a mental hospital for geriatrics , to a public ward in a public bed , her possessions named with white tapes , her false teeth removed , her talk and actions , perhaps even her death , made common property . |
| 28 | But none of it contradicted the evidence Defries had seen , and some of that had been equally unbelievable . |
| 29 | in a world where none of you learnt the bloody |
| 30 | The clock 's designer would know the details of its real essence whereas , says Locke , none of us know the real essence of gold . |