Example sentences of "of [pron] [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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1 | Alongside , it grew other patterns of pastoral care and supervision , based upon organization by years , with year-tutors often moving up through the school with the pupils , at least some of whom they could teach on a regular basis . |
2 | Some had children of whom they could be proud ; some were ashamed of their offspring . |
3 | Unfortunately their first action was to ask those already within the system of whom they should make enquiries . |
4 | Their group comprises Marseille , CSKA Moscow and Bruges , each of whom they will play on a home and away basis . |
5 | The Honorary Members were John Couch Adams , the astronomer ; William Crookes , the chemist , of whom we shall hear more ; W. E. Gladstone , Prime Minister again early in that year in the midst of the Irish Home Rule struggles ; John Ruskin ; Lord Tennyson ; A. R. Wallace , the co-discoverer of natural selection ; and G. F. Watts , the painter . |
6 | All the other literary women he knew were old bags of whom he would be bitterly ashamed . |
7 | You remember Gustave 's Madame Schlesinger , the woman who first cicatrised his adolescent heart , the woman with whom everything was doomed and hopeless , the woman of whom he used to boast furtively , the woman for whose sake he had bricked up his heart ( and you accuse our sex of vain romance ? ) . |
8 | In the course of his fieldwork the anthropologist will observe in considerable detail the day-to-day interactions of a few hundred individuals with many of whom he will eventually become intimately acquainted . |
9 | In consequence , how many people are there today of whom it may be said , as regards their use of themselves , ‘ in form and moving how express and admirable ’ ? |
10 | Nor was he the only imperialist of his day of whom it might have been said , as one of his biographers said of him , that he had ‘ a genius for backing into the limelight ’ . |
11 | To the men of the Second Army he declared in a vibrant Order of the Day : ‘ You will be those of whom it will be said — ‘ they barred the way to Verdun ! ’ ’ |
12 | He was one of whom it can truly be said he could ‘ talk with crowds and keep his virtue or walk with kings nor lose the common touch ’ . |
13 | The party had 143 salaried staff , most of whom it could no longer afford to keep . |
14 | Jesus , in such a statement , is held to be unique , if only through the fact that this is the human of whom it must be said that God raised him . |
15 | At the same time these original articles , which were generally sympathetic to the Princess of Wales , proved to those around her , many of whom I would meet later , that at last her side of the story could be told fairly . |
16 | He did visit the King 's College and Boswell name-dropped regarding the chapel , wherein lies the fifteenth-century Bishop Elphinstone , ‘ of whom I shall have occasion to write , ’ declared Bozzy , ‘ in my history of James IV of Scotland , the patron of my family ’ : Auchinleck was granted to the Boswells in return for favours rendered . |
17 | If Councillor had actually stayed , he would know why this is so important to the people of whom I may say he has cruelly deserted by walking out of the debating chamber and what he 's saying to the people of is that Liberal Councillors A wo n't prepare speeches like his colleague earlier on or they wo n't stay in the debate they are not going to be properly represented when we take important decisions , both nationally and locally . |
18 | But a Churchill of whom I can only speak with deep affection is Randolph 's son , Winston . |
19 | Mr. Miller , of whom I must always retain the highest sense , both for the Knowledge I have received from his Labours , and more particularly that Friendship and Communicativeness with which he always treated me , was blessed with a more favourable Situation in the progress of his Experiments , by enjoying the kind Influence of the Sun ( the parent of Vegetation ) in so high a Degree as to have the Vine in full ripeness on the natural Wall , without the assistance of Art ; and could we all experience the same Felicity , I need not have communicated my Observations or my Countrymen wanted an other Tutor … |
20 | The Aborigines who were with me , and of whom I must speak in the highest praise , for the readiness with which they rendered me their assistance , affirmed , upon learning the nature of my pursuits , that they had come to meet me . ’ |
21 | in the January edition of She magazine , but although it 's the January edition , it er does pertain to Christmas , because it 's all about the guests you invite to your home over the festive period , some of whom you could well do without . |
22 | I am taking a party of racing people , some of whom you will surely know . |
23 | The subject is open to both girls and boys — many of whom you will see displaying their talents today . |
24 | Pressed by Clem and Mrs Vaughan to stay the night , Leonora declined with grateful thanks , hoping her longing to escape was n't visible to Penry 's family , all of whom she would have liked to know better under other circumstances . |
25 | She thought , I do n't doubt , that if she got rid of me he would turn to her , but she 's too fat . |
26 | He looked at me as though he was trying to work out which part of me he would take a bit out of . |
27 | And if he wants to get rid of me he 'll have to throw me out . ’ |
28 | If you have any need of me you may enquire of my nephew the vicar . ’ |
29 | Altogether it lasted a month and but for the neighbours rallying around and taking care of me I would have ended up in hospital . |
30 | Only if Baker drops to 19th today will Feherty go past him , but David says : ‘ Even if Peter is still ahead of me I would like to think that winning would give me a good chance of a wild card . ’ |