Example sentences of "[pron] of [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naked women cycled energetically round an indoor track as spectators placed bets on which of them would reach orgasm first from the rubbing of clitoris on saddle . |
| 2 | The open and public part of the contest between the two companies for the monopoly of the Indian trade ( apart from the normal process of lobbying , in which it was said very large sums were spent on bribery ) was devoted to finding which of them would lend more money to the government . |
| 3 | There was no question , of course , as to which of them would have to put the proposal for ‘ protection ’ to Cowley . |
| 4 | Consider the variety of ways in which humans spend their time and ask which of them would have value if they occurred , miraculously , in a kind of vacuum . |
| 5 | Let's look in this bucket and see which of these things will float and which of them will sink . |
| 6 | Every seven years representatives of the eight magical colleges in Altdorf meet to decide which of them will reign as the Supreme Patriarch for the next seven years . |
| 7 | First , is it inevitable that political parties , not voters , should rank candidates on their lists , and thus decide which of them will have the best chances of being elected ? |
| 8 | They pecked at some dead creature on the moorland verge , squabbling over which of them should have it , wheeling and darting at each other like terrible shadows in the mist . |
| 9 | As the four-man squad loped , half-crouching , along the space station 's strangely-twisting corridors , Ace and Daak were squabbling about which of them should guard the other 's back . |
| 10 | Which of you would like coffee and what kind ? |
| 11 | Delia Sutherland was thinking : Who 'll be the first , which of you will speak up ? |
| 12 | ‘ Which of you can take on men ? ’ he sniggered . |
| 13 | ( If our motives had to be completely pure , which of us would pass the test ? ) |
| 14 | It was the American biologist Garrett Hardin who first coined the highly apposite phrase ‘ fate 's lottery ’ for those capricious processes of gene shuffling that determine which of us shall inherit stretches of DNA coding for serious debility , which of us are bequeathed the determinants of mental disease , which of us will die young , and which of us will be able to avoid lung cancer despite a lifetime of heavy smoking . |
| 15 | It was the American biologist Garrett Hardin who first coined the highly apposite phrase ‘ fate 's lottery ’ for those capricious processes of gene shuffling that determine which of us shall inherit stretches of DNA coding for serious debility , which of us are bequeathed the determinants of mental disease , which of us will die young , and which of us will be able to avoid lung cancer despite a lifetime of heavy smoking . |
| 16 | Which of us can hope for anything better than that to be said about us ? |
| 17 | Which of us can afford to forgo a chance like that in these troubled times ? ’ |
| 18 | The roar of applause when it later rids itself of them may boost its popularity at a critical moment . |
| 19 | Earlier , and none of them might have survived the ritual of the tunnel of terror … |
| 20 | Funnily enough , none of them would drink and drive or not wear a seatbelt . ’ |
| 21 | I mean , I did , but I also had ‘ up ’ and ‘ down ’ , and none of them would do . |
| 22 | But none of them would do for today . |
| 23 | This was now attempted , but I got nowhere near finding out , because none of them would estimate over the phone . |
| 24 | ‘ I bet my friend , who commands the 4th Battalion of the Presidential Guard , that he could deploy 50 men and that none of them would lay hands on you . |
| 25 | in a trot but er I might just have this and none of them would win , I 've only , I would only praise them guessed up or that way or |
| 26 | As three men slowly looked away McLeish received the uncompromising message that if any of them had been so lucky as to have dinner with Catherine Crane , none of them would have let her pay for herself . |
| 27 | Without the traffic-free tranquillity of the town centre , none of them would have been noticeable . |
| 28 | There were fewer than seven under-strength German divisions in Yugoslavia , none of them would have been suitable for service in France or North Italy , as has been maintained . |
| 29 | None of them would have any formal local attachment other than to the large constituency as a whole . |
| 30 | I knew perfectly well that if ever that crowd got hold of them none of them would have been left to tell the tale and took immediate steps for them to escape by the windows at the rear of the premises . |