Example sentences of "of [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " 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 | Indeed , the EEC , in anticipation of its enlargement , had also begun to consider how it might accommodate the remaining EFTA states , all of whom for varying reasons could not consider joining the EEC , or were precluded from doing so . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It should be within the competence of everyone of moderate ability who has worked properly and who directs his mind to what he is being asked . |
| 8 | When you are at the beck and call of everyone for 14 hours a day for four days and for 8 hours on the fifth day each week you want a short space in which you relax and do just what you like . ’ |
| 9 | They can even be used allopathically ( as in orthodox medicine ) and this is just what is happening in the situation above when one or two remedies are advocated for the treatment of everyone with one disease label . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 1992 marks a major change in which Europe ceases to be a matter for specialists and becomes the concern of everyone in local government . |
| 12 | Since the hero takes the castrato to be a woman and makes a sculpture of him/her in female form , castration is linked to problems of representation . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | I have always been exclusively attracted to girls and wimmin in any sexual or deep emotional way ; it has always been a part of me as grey eyes or dark hair . |
| 15 | The sail had been a hindrance , making sport of me at each whim of the wind , so I lowered it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , I could never be sure exactly what was required of me on these occasions . |
| 18 | Suddenly , out of a dark doorway , a figure stepped and stood in front of me with open arms . |
| 19 | They would take the mickey out of me with sickening enthusiasm . |
| 20 | No , I had decided that whatever I washoping to do , I was going to do on my own so if anyone was going to be proud of me they were going to be proud of me for legitimate reasons . |
| 21 | I sat with a tomato juice in front of me for some time straining my ears to hear what Nigel was saying . |
| 22 | Blind with rage : I know why they say blind — I could n't see him , I could n't see anything — I did n't think what to say , I was just saying it , shouting it , fury pouring out of me like hot tar — my hands were on my hips and clinging on so as to stop myself tearing his straggly hair out , gouging his eyes out , strangling him till his voice went gurgle-croak and his body went limp . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | ‘ The questions that are asked of me by Asian people sometimes are the questions that are asked of Karim when he portrays Changez as a characters in his own play , ’ he explains . |
| 25 | Right , well you 're already ahead of me in that case |
| 26 | The press were very critical of me in many ways before that . |
| 27 | I start to run again , back the way I 've just come , the branch held out in front of me in both hands . |
| 28 | My mother had several photographs of me in this attire . |
| 29 | Shortly afterwards we returned to English prep schools , where I quickly had my French beaten out of me in French grammar classes , and where Lorne responded by continuing to be unable to talk or , rather , to speak in any known language , for he would hold forth volubly in a tongue uniquely his own . |
| 30 | 9 of Goldsmith 's The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ) some elegant young ladies appear who ‘ would talk of nothing but high life , and high-lived company ; with other fashionable topics , such as pictures , taste , Shakespeare , and the musical glasses ’ . |