Example sentences of "of [pron] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in the so-called ‘ permissive ’ 1960s , there were no gay switchboards or lesbian lines , and Chad Varah made it part of his mission to encourage self-acceptance in lesbians , most of whom at that time felt ‘ guilty or freakish ’ . |
| 2 | Nor was it only their tenants who were resentful , but they also had to face envious glances at their lands from the laity , some of whom at any rate seem to have considered them suitable prey . |
| 3 | A group not given βblockers included the remaining 2688 patients , none of whom at any time received a β blocker of any sort , including atenolol . |
| 4 | Again , it was clear that the ministers and their parliamentary colleagues , many of whom in any case disliked the scheme , would not pass into legislation any bill which had been declared contrary to church teaching by the bishops . |
| 5 | The relatively relaxed stance of most of the leading Bolsheviks , many of whom in any case were themselves not Great Russians , was met at least half-way by the malleable reactions of the Belorussians . |
| 6 | American poets can be so thunderstruck by the sheer oddity of being a poet in America at all that they often deny to the poet , in advance , any claim to represent a people or even a social class ; and classic New York drama in this century , as in the plays of Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller , has concentrated painfully and insistently on the pre-eminence of family ties and the ineluctable need of everyone in that world to be loved , as they continuously imply , by their closest relatives . |
| 7 | And also you said , you were going , you were taking the piss out of me about that thing I told you about something to do with Aaron erm |
| 8 | The sail had been a hindrance , making sport of me at each whim of the wind , so I lowered it . |
| 9 | But I felt dreadful , like a bloated lump with one leg and no hair , so there are n't any photos of me at that time at all . |
| 10 | I sat with a tomato juice in front of me for some time straining my ears to hear what Nigel was saying . |
| 11 | Oh dear oh it 's down about here when , did it the other day , and the woman just drove out straight in front of me from another lane |
| 12 | Right , well you 're already ahead of me in that case |
| 13 | My mother had several photographs of me in this attire . |
| 14 | His smile deepened as he added , ‘ I have been told that I am a good lover and I can think of nothing in this world that would give me greater pleasure than to teach you the plaisirs d'amour . |
| 15 | But the dreariness , the frightful struggle of life , the indifference of people , the troublesomeness of children — he did not want to be reminded of them at that moment . |
| 16 | The six sections of that car were allocated to twelve assorted actors and crew , most of them at that point reading , talking or fast asleep . |
| 17 | She would be almost glad when they were gone — some of them at any rate . |
| 18 | We did get them better a lot of them at any rate . |
| 19 | The research is based on the assumption that most of the contemporary ideas on this crucial topic date back to the 19th century , and that some of them at any rate are by now dated . |
| 20 | If you talk to people in the street the majority of people who have young children are certainly saying we need day care , we need opportunities for ourselves erm and are quite prepared , some of them at any rate , to go and say that to their local councillors and to write to their M Ps . |
| 21 | Only 12% think that they are public property and therefore the press should be able to take photographs of them at any time . |
| 22 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 23 | The inclusion of them at this point in the text , defines the whole process of the experience of love , " insuperable " " inseparable " and " singular " as the activity of the Holy Spirit in man . |
| 24 | She 'd had a cocktail of them at some point that morning . ’ |
| 25 | She had eight brothers and had had to fight or argue with every one of them at some time or another . |
| 26 | Here , a charge under Schedule E can arise where a manager has acquired shares in respect of which a " chargeable event " occurs while he is the beneficial owner of them and the manager is a director or employee of Newco or Target or an associated company of either of them at some time during the period of seven years ending with the date on which the chargeable event occurs . |
| 27 | The receiver 's got to dispose of them at some stage . |
| 28 | And one of them to some extent has has has already been discussed . |
| 29 | In your do-it-yourself practice you can try to spot long vowels by contrasting two of them with each other in sentences . |
| 30 | As Richard Whalley wrote to his sister in 1624 , many quite wealthy local gentlemen : ‘ had opposed their parents … consumed their whole estates , even to one foot of ground , five of them with much ado to get winding sheets ; some died under hedges ’ . |