Example sentences of "of [pron] [vb past] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ensuing debate , however , does little credit to the Mendelians , the more bigoted of whom refused even to believe in the existence of the pads despite the eye-witness testimony of a number of biologists who were later to become household names in their own rights — a list of eye-witnesses that includes British biologists as diverse in their biological contributions as J. B , S. Haldane , W. H. Thorpe , L. Harrison Matthews and G. E. Hutchinson . |
| 2 | The Oxford Union has played host to Prime Ministers and American presidents , but none of them came here to sing . |
| 3 | But only one of them stepped forward to receive his medal . |
| 4 | So strong was this hankering for the Gothic and everything that went with it that many of them refused even to look at nature first-hand , but looked at it through a special lens called a Claude-glass , Claude being a French painter of the Gothic who designed his glass especially for looking at ancient ruins and alpine chasms . |
| 5 | Most of them did so to make a political point and to gain publicity . |
| 6 | Some of them remained behind to tell me a length how the object was a perfect focus for their festival that was being held in memory of one of their multi-armed folk heroes . |
| 7 | All of which served merely to raise Frankenstein 's spirits . |
| 8 | He wanted her back , regardless , but some part of him wanted desperately to know the real truth . |
| 9 | You tell me how any of us could have chucked him over the balustrade even if the whole lot of us got together to do it . |
| 10 | Some of us found enough to interest us just sitting in front of the Upland Goose Hotel watching the birds in the harbour . |