Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 What about I said this number .
2 And what about I bought some revision books and things study aids or something for Amanda for her English literature
3 And what about I bought some revision books and things study aids or something for Amanda for her English literature
4 After him came more chiefs and then banners and icons of the two principal churches which had sent their Arks to be present at the battle .
5 ‘ In the space of two years , we moved from a domestic merchant bank with 500 people , all of whom knew each other very well , to an organisation with nearly 3,000 people spread all over the world , ’ says Mr Reed .
6 He dodged between the startled shoppers , none of whom made any attempt to stop him .
7 The employees interviewed in the 30 banks all have the responsibility for making lending decisions to small business customers , but in only a few cases were those branch managers as such , because generally the role of dealing with the small business customer is delegated to executives such as the specialised Enterprise Manager , or the Small Business Manager , all of whom had several years ' experience .
8 Its opponents included 105 Republicans led by the House Minority Whip , Newt Gingrich , most of whom opposed any increases in taxation , while the Democrats opposed cuts in benefits and services .
9 My father came from a peasant family in Berkshire , consisting of three sons and five daughters , all of whom entered some kind of domestic service , the women rising to responsible posts as head housemaids , housekeepers and parlourmaids .
10 Her embarrassment continued when she was introduced to a procession of Korean shop workers , none of whom spoke any English .
11 Potential side effects were noted by 47 ( 2.2% ) patients , some of whom reported several symptoms concurrently .
12 Despite Knox 's fulminations against ‘ that cruel tyrant and unmerciful hypocrite ’ , the archbishop of St Andrews , and the ‘ woman born to dissemble and deceive ’ , Mary of Guise , it was in fact an act quite out of character of both archbishop and regent , neither of whom showed any taste for persecution .
13 The rest of me knew this sort of thing worked .
14 But the rest of me ignored those details and clutched hungrily at the reassurance that she had n't really played a willing part in my humiliation .
15 Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money .
16 At five o'clock tea was served to the Empress and about 20 of her guests , the groups being so organized that in the course of a week all of them enjoyed this privilege , thus avoiding any outbursts of jealousy or recrimination .
17 And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty .
18 Only three of them secured enough votes to be assured of their seats .
19 None of them offered any distinction from its neighbour .
20 What they each gained separately was a greater individual confidence and capacity for self-determination as women , and each of them fed that confidence back into a variety of struggles to change the position of women , and in the case of the majority of women in that particular group , to a struggle for some kind of socialism .
21 They none of them had much money , but the Bouveries had a house , for which they did not have to pay rent .
22 Neither of them had much appetite but they finished the wine .
23 Bradshaw , Foo , Doerner , Cooke : each of them had some claim to supremacy .
24 By contrast , when adults were accompanying children , during a similar three-minute period , less than half of them had any communication at all with their children ; and in two-fifths of the pairs ‘ what took place was negative ’ .
25 Margaret tried them all , but none of them had any help for her .
26 Besides , none of them had any sense of humour and I ruined many a high-flown discussion by making jokes .
27 Jim did not seem to be there enough for them to talk it through and neither of them had any money .
28 Neither of them had any desire to repeat the experience .
29 Well , not all of them had those things
30 Four of them had another go as The Madness but it did n't work , and suddenly they were gone .
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