Example sentences of "those [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Tho ’ I was young Thomas Chatterton to those I met , I was a very Proteus to those who read my Works ' : Chatterton 's story is mostly told by himself , and with a felicity of cadence and of reference which can be caught in the sentence I have just quoted . |
| 2 | It is arguable that the disappearance of grammar schools was a further factor in the weakening of the English synthesis , in addition to those I have discussed . |
| 3 | But when I looked over those I had kept , I decided I could not do so . |
| 4 | In the end it was n't just for me but for those I wanted to share my life with . |
| 5 | I passed by , and was no longer recognised by anyone ; the unknown children did not smile at me ; and I dared not ask what had become of those I had known , whom I feared to recognise in these bent men exhausted by life . |
| 6 | I did n't make friends easily , but the funny thing is that some of those I went to school with , and was n't so close to , have become good friends in later life . |
| 7 | In literature I was going to offer both British and American authors , both prose and poetry , so that was no problem , though it did mean that I should have to read authors I disliked — Conrad , Hemingway , Woolf , Graham Greene , C.P. Snow — but I leavened this stodgy bunch with those I felt more in sympathy with , though they were not officially on the syllabus — Waugh , Firbank and Forster at their head . |
| 8 | All those I had loved in the past — Richard , Marjorie , Alain , Madeleine , Leo , Muriel , Alan , Sandro , Erich , Jordi — all loved more or less in vain , hopelessly — were now without substance or meaning . |
| 9 | Later , habit was to help me to find Aunt Louise with the assurance of a homing pigeon ; now , hesitant of asking the way ( being unable to read on the faces of those I encountered whether they were patients or helpers ) , I had great difficulty in finding the right building ; and then — up ill-lit stone staircases and along corridors — in finding the ward to which I had been directed . |
| 10 | With those I returned at speed to the boathouse and attacked the lower door , first hammering the toe of the tyre lever into a nonexistent crack between the wooden door frame and the surrounding brickwork at a level just below the keyhole , then bashing the far end of that iron , to put heavy leverage against the door frame , then wrenching out the lever and repeating the whole process above the lock , this time with fury . |
| 11 | As ex-Servicemen , they had not only dealt with the situations I feared most , but also those I could not imagine . |
| 12 | They did their best to include me as ‘ family ’ , but I felt rather forlorn and sad , so far from those I loved , and from one especially , not only in distance but in spirit . |
| 13 | The number of genes I share with my relations by marriage is again smaller , and those I share with people from other countries is yet smaller still . |
| 14 | But not one of those I service . ’ |
| 15 | Since the experiment , few Members have complained on this score , and none of those I interviewed . |
| 16 | Those I interviewed said that nearly all the public comment they had heard had been favourable to the televising of the House . |
| 17 | For those I 've missed , I apologize . |
| 18 | Only those I feel we can trust to keep it under wraps have been contacted . ’ |
| 19 | In July 1914 while preparing the volume for publication , he confided to his close friend Florence Henniker : ‘ Some of them I rather shrink from printing — those I wrote just after Emma died , when I looked back at her as she had originally been , & when I felt miserable lest I had not treated her considerately in her latter life . |
| 20 | It was the best round of golf for conditions like those I 'd ever seen , or have seen since . |
| 21 | Manchester City ! ’ he said , continuing the chant which was so like those I had heard at Manchester 's Maine Road ground that I marvelled when he said he had never been to England . |
| 22 | The hill that was waiting for me across the next two miles of nothingness was typical of those I had climbed that day — no more than a hundred feet high , with a gradual slope . |
| 23 | When I eventually did get home , though , I remembered most of those I had forgotten as if I had not been away . |
| 24 | And I remember , too , those I had n't eaten by the time I got home we hung on the tree . |
| 25 | He left also a timeless description of Fowey , where ‘ … the little boats that lie tethered to the rings and stancheons of the old sea wall are gaily painted as those I clambered in and out of in my own childhood … and by the windows the great vessels glide , night and day , up to their moorings or forth to the open sea . ’ |
| 26 | Arriving early for a night session is a good idea for several reasons , not least those I have mentioned about having plenty of time to tackle up in daylight , bait the swim , and settle in comfortably . |
| 27 | The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour . |
| 28 | I can remember them clearly because they were so much more optimistic than those I was to have a year later . |
| 29 | I must have been the greatest bore ever , and it 's a wonder that those I inflicted my views upon did n't rebel . |
| 30 | Indeed , with hindsight and viewed from a far cooler and more rational climate , my astonishment is now all the greater , because many of those I evangelized to , far from rebelling , seemed to respond . |