Example sentences of "of [pron] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 1,200 Italians — most of whom committed atrocities in Yugoslavia — were listed by the United Nations War Crimes Commission , but none was handed over . |
| 2 | I have in front of me some photographs from a collection of settlers ' memories . |
| 3 | There had been rioting down by the docks , some said , but no one knew exactly where ; and Mrs Norris swore they were throwing the dead into mass graves , and half of them good Catholics without the last rites . |
| 4 | I am sure that hon. Members have talked to constituents , many of them young women with children , who say bitterly that they feel trapped in their environment and dare not go out at night , even to have a cup of tea with a friend . |
| 5 | But a lot of them young kids of twelve year old , twelve to thirteen |
| 6 | And one of them best lads of the yard used to go up there and meet the year meet them . |
| 7 | Macdonell 's description of a village cricket match against a team of authors , most of them recognizable characters in Squire 's own team , ‘ The Invalids ’ , became required reading . |
| 8 | Controversy surrounding summit Prior to the summit , governments and NGOs of varying persuasions traded accusations , many of them familiar rehearsals of long-standing differences . |
| 9 | In ‘ package transactions ’ , trust banks each buy , say , 100,000 shares of the same 20 stocks — all of them key components of the Nikkei share average . |
| 10 | ‘ One of them nice ladies at Mrs P 's , middle floor , knitted it up . |
| 11 | Most of them enclosed letters to be forwarded to her . |
| 12 | Students and staff at the Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education , many of them fellow members of the college rugby team , wept during a performance of Elton John 's Yellow Brick Road , the favourite tune of student , Murray Pugh , stabbed to death in Cheltenham just over a month ago . |
| 13 | " When the war came he had a fleet of eleven ships , most of them modern carriers of eight hundred to one thousand tons . |
| 14 | Indeed , many of them experienced agonies of self-doubt ; all too aware of their inadequacies as Christians , they threw themselves headlong into acts of piety and charity in order to prove to themselves that they really were God 's elect . |
| 15 | It is true that some members of the party were inclined to take a ‘ soft ’ line towards Germany : prominent among them were Philip Noel-Baker and Richard Stokes , both of them middle-class members of the party . |
| 16 | Get rid of them nasty things down your throat what 's harbouring the germs . |
| 17 | it 's got er , it 's got one of them white things with a black line on it I 'm sure |
| 18 | His clothes , some of them old things of Theo 's which had been altered for him , were shabby , and were getting spattered with paint . |
| 19 | ‘ Do any of them own horses like ours ? ’ |
| 20 | All six songs were crammed with churning melodies and great choruses ; with at least three of them worthy contenders for vinyl . |
| 21 | Good as its word , Advanced Micro Devices Inc yesterday announced that it has begun shipments of the first members of its Am486 microprocessor family with 33MHz , 40MHz and clock-doubled 50MHz versions , all of them full clones of the Intel Corp 80486 with maths co-processor on board . |
| 22 | So why do you fill in all the rest of them silly columns in ? |
| 23 | There 's this bloke on top of this bus — you know , one of them big ones with no roof , and he 's just shouting . |
| 24 | — We put our picnic on one of them big bits of concrete . |
| 25 | It emerged at the trial that 89 of the victims , most of them suspected members of Sendero Luminoso , had been shot in the head . |
| 26 | We 're dealing with fear , we 're dealing with a sense of vulnerability and impotence and how do you teach grown ups to deal with those issues , because a lot of them erm the for a lot of them these kinds of questions go to the very centre of who they are , their self image . |
| 27 | We anxiously resigned ourselves to a long wait , and as the weeks passed we gradually got to know the handful of long-term foreign residents in the town , all of them eccentric survivors from days of former glory . |
| 28 | Emerson and Jackie swopped positions at Brands Hatch , with both of them missing gears at critical points and having to drive some time in oil thrown up by Ickx 's Ferrari . |
| 29 | To the sacked Timex workers , many of them middle-aged women with long years of service , he was the embodiment of Thatcherite management at its rawest . |
| 30 | I MADE one of my rare visits to town this week and I wish I had not . |