Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was she a rare and special creature , some fabulous beauty , of whom Jeopardy had been fond , or had she simply been a vessel for his seed ? |
| 2 | The number of people in the UK infected with HIV has been estimated to be up to 100,000 , of whom AIDS had been officially reported in 4228 , by January 1991 . |
| 3 | He was busy , and to get rid of me lie wrote me a letter of introduction to Ahmed Ahmedi , the vice-consul at the embassy . |
| 4 | Mind , it was the surprise of me life to 'ear you 'd teamed up with a fly female pickpocket , I did n't know you was one of the lads . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The southern part of me farm borderin' the Westport road . |
| 6 | ‘ Bits of me keep coming into contact with bits of your car . ’ |
| 7 | we take some of them part bake breads and some cheese and biscuits and a great big packet of cheese and , and you just you know , you can either just sit there , but the food , once you get down the food is so cheap you do n't want nothing else in the heat . |
| 8 | For several reasons ( some of them government imposed ) , fewer cattle are now kept on the crofts in Shetland , and the accent is more on sheep-rearing . |
| 9 | And then of course the there were some a lot of them mass produced then there was the mass producer come in then . |
| 10 | Well I can get a taxi easy enough , there 's plenty of them god knows . |
| 11 | Several people — some of them will known to the Hon. Gentleman — have made strong representations to me . |
| 12 | Later in the year will come a biography of Michael MacLiammoir , a fly-on-the-wall account of life at the Royal Court , a memoir by John Gielgud and the Complete Prefaces of Granville Barker — about 25 to 30 titles a year , all of them theatre related . |
| 13 | ‘ Both of them play have represented Denmark at under-21 level while Morton has been called up for the senior squad . |
| 14 | And in all of them homosexuality echoes Augustinian privation — the more pernicious for being deeply , inherently inadequate , a kind of non-being and inauthenticity : an inimical absence which provokes paranoia and on to which is projected the fear of difference inherent within sexual difference . |
| 15 | For most of them sex happens in the same places it always did . |
| 16 | Charlton and Grilly went on to play together as Palace 's full-backs for four seasons , and it was no coincidence that in two of them Palace made serious , if unavailing , attempts to restore 2nd Division status to Selhurst Park , finishing as runners-up in both 1928–29 and 1930–31 . |
| 17 | The remains of several old sailing ships adorn the Stanley waterfront and on some of them rock shags nest along the side decks and in the hawse holes . |
| 18 | Thus studies which , for example , have involved showing subjects a series of slides with just a few of them being arousing , e.g. autopsy slides ( Kramer , Buckhout , Fox , Widman & Tusche , 1991 ) or disfigured faces ( Christianson & Nilsson , 1984 ) , have shown impairments in memory for paired associates to the arousing stimulus or anterograde amnesia for subsequent slides . |
| 19 | He had a lot of peculiar habits , one of them being to stare hard at you with steely eyes . |
| 20 | They loathed the German guns and they looked with longing and detestation at Woolley , but in each of them fear had given way to a curiously objective fatalism . |
| 21 | For example , leakage of charged particles into the upper atmosphere of a planet can give rise to emissions of em radiation called aurora . |
| 22 | The demise of deep coal mining and hte cessation of mine water pumping into the almond catchment in the early 1970s has depleted river flows to the extent that dry weather flows in the river are now quite inadequate to assimilate increased volumes of sewage effluent from developing areas . |
| 23 | Part of my thesis rests upon the belief that if deixis operates in a different way in lyric poetry from the way it does in non-literary discourse , it does so in degree , not in kind . |
| 24 | At the cross , at the cross where I first saw the light , and the burden of my heart rolled away , it was there by faith I receive my sight and now I am happy all the day ! |
| 25 | The Look Of Love and All Of My Heart remain peerless . |
| 26 | He did not meet his mother from infancy until the age of twelve , when they found themselves accidentally in the same workhouse : but instead of the ‘ gush of tenderness ’ between them of which he had dreamt , ‘ her expression was so chilling that the valves of my heart closed as with a snap … |
| 27 | How I would wake weeping , and in the anguish of my heart exclaim upon sweet Calne in Wiltshire ! |
| 28 | So I 've just come out of the goodness of my heart to warn you to save yourself while you can : you 'll lose Hugo — where is he , by the way ? |
| 29 | I 'd had enough of my hair looking like a toilet brush , so I always had it cut short — like Ronnie Lane 's of course — which was less hassle . |
| 30 | ‘ Even diluted like I use it , ’ the mother told him , ‘ it makes a good deal of my hair fall out , so goodness knows what 's going to happen to you . |