Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The rest of me knew this sort of thing worked .
2 ‘ Clever of me to acquire such information , do n't you agree ? ’
3 I think it took a lot out of me learning colloquial English .
4 Our only means of escape is alcohol , and I keep off that pretty much ; but I ca n't say I blame chaps for getting drunk ( apart from the fact that it does n't do you any good ) , for few of them take any interest in books .
5 It was conducted , too , in French since France was the country to which most of them owed intellectual allegiance .
6 But none of them does full justice to the purpose of Scripture as set out by the Bible writers themselves , or to the cumulative experience of Bible users through the centuries .
7 While the deal goes down the rest of them wait next door .
8 Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money .
9 Not all of them enjoyed full sovereignty nor were very united or coherent in structure .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 None of them offered any distinction from its neighbour .
13 Twenty nuclear reactors have been dumped at sea , mostly in the Arctic , seven of them containing nuclear fuel .
14 Many of them resent this country 's system of the 25 year lease , and would favour a more flexible approach — such as the break options that are widely available in the US and France but less common here .
15 Therefore by encouraging more of them to use this route , you 'll erode your , your planting in the nature reserve .
16 Silence then , the two of them facing each other .
17 Ward had also risen , the two of them facing each other .
18 The decision has left some of them facing financial hardship .
19 Many scientists are active in such groups in Northern Ireland and a significant proportion of them bring special expertise to their organisations .
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 Would either of them reach compact disc standard international stardom and , if they did , would they soften into insignificance or would they , could they , remain essential and innovative ?
22 Some of them received high command in the mid-fifteenth century , and some introduced their own characteristics to the fighting of war .
23 But it is equally likely to be either one of the pair , and if you average over lots of sperms ( or eggs ) it turns out that half of them contain one allele , half the other .
24 It is particularly important to check about vaccinations because many of them contain live virus .
25 There are still plenty of waters with relatively few people on them and some of them contain some eye opening fish .
26 Until a few years ago most wood dyes tended to fade in strong sunlight , but now many of them contain transparent iron oxides , which do not fade and can be used on interior and exterior woodwork .
27 It did not take long for the two of them to agree that cost-cutting and restructuring were required .
28 They none of them had much money , but the Bouveries had a house , for which they did not have to pay rent .
29 Neither of them had much appetite but they finished the wine .
30 And all of them had one thing in mind .
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