Example sentences of "of [pron] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He plunged himself into all this and more , avidly reading everything that came his way ; especially poetry , and not least Spanish , Chinese and Japanese poets in translation , but chiefly that of Federico Garçia Lorca and W.B. Yeats , of whom he mused , ‘ I loved Yeats ; his connections ( such an important code-word with Leonard ! ) his rhythms . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Hooker estimates that 12 years ago , when he paid £1.50 for his first grip , there were up to 100 collectors of whom he knew a couple of dozen . |
| 3 | Dawson wrote this editorial after discussing the idea with Baldwin and MacDonald , both of whom he had found to be ‘ receptive ’ . |
| 4 | Under the Social Security Act 1971 , a man is liable to maintain his wife and children , including those of whom he has been adjudged the putative father , and a woman is liable to maintain her husband and children . |
| 5 | All the other literary women he knew were old bags of whom he would be bitterly ashamed . |
| 6 | When he refers to Montagu as ‘ the Assyrian ’ and his Queen Anne 's Gate house as ‘ the silken tents of Shem ’ , he was not being jealous or even anti-semitic , but complacently and affectionately mocking of Montagu , of whom he was almost as fond as he was of Venetia . |
| 7 | As an assistant bishop his ministry included regular visits to the churches and schools of the archdiocese , where he was a favourite among the children , thousands of whom he confirmed . |
| 8 | He conducted sermons , and met many Nez Perce headmen , including Tuekakas , of whom he wrote : ‘ If there is one among this multitude who it may be hoped has been everlastingly benefitted by the gospel , I should believe it is this man ’ . |
| 9 | He was arrested and after a trial before the Tribunal , all of whom he knew well , he was sentenced to a year in Peterhead Gaol . |
| 10 | The numbers attending were usually small but on one occasion the minister ( Mr Dwyer himself , it is implied , ) found that 300 people , some of whom he had never seen before , had gathered to hear him . |
| 11 | Jones reserves his highest praise for lateral thinkers — one of whom he identifies as the new Prime Minister Bob Hawke . |
| 12 | After a couple of years they adopted a child which they named Peggy , of whom he was very fond . |
| 13 | It goes without saying that he was deeply interested in Factota Limited — and in the girls themselves , of whom he had heard a great deal from Roger Kenyon , who was his friend . |
| 14 | Under Reg 20 , an employer was to deduct tax at source at the basic rate where he had made a payment to an employee in respect of whom he had not received a code of authorisation , subject to certain conditions . |
| 15 | Lord Denning suggested that the accountant 's responsibility should not be extended further to include strangers of whom he had no knowledge . |
| 16 | Among his pupils were George Cranmer , great-nephew of the Archbishop , and Edwin Sandys , son of the Archbishop of York , with both of whom he formed a lasting friendship . |
| 17 | The girl who was now confronting Joe was someone strange and of whom he held no memory in any corner of his mind . |
| 18 | Heston shares the Chairmanship with Marshal of the RAF Sir John Grandy , of whom he remarked ‘ I confess to a frisson of awe at sharing a Chairmanship with a former Air Vice Marshal , I never did better than Staff Sergeant myself . ’ |
| 19 | She had been relieved when he first appeared in it ; it was bright blue striped with red , expensive , obviously new , a reassuring sign that the mother she had never met and of whom he never spoke , tried to take good care of him . |
| 20 | As a behind-the-scenes view of an artist 's life it makes an interesting comparison with other recent artists ' lives — Rodin , John , Modigliani and Picasso — all of whom he knew . |
| 21 | And perhaps through the drinking he sought to meet his father of whom he spoke so little and to whom it seemed , the older he grew , he meant so little . |
| 22 | His success rate was obvious by the number of struggling competitors , many of whom he subsequently bought out to add to his ever growing empire … |
| 23 | But this was almost certainly an ex post joke , unless it was the only explanation he could offer for the remarkably undistinguished collection of ministers who governed with him in 1923 , most of whom he had in any event inherited from Bonar Law . |
| 24 | This would remove Balfour , Salisbury , Joynson-Hicks , Cushendun and Bridgeman , but also Austen Chamberlain , of whom he felt he could not dispose . |
| 25 | There were letters to write , interviews to give , meetings with eminent writers whose work he might never have read or of whom he had no very high opinion , and of course the official round of duties : a speech at the Alliance Française on 19 January , and another at a lunch of the Anglo-Swedish society two weeks later . |
| 26 | One consequence of this immobility is that everyone is surrounded by people very like himself , most of whom he has always known . |
| 27 | He also enjoyed the ornamentation provided by an attractive , vivacious woman and he made a great fuss of Susan in public , as he did also of Wally Fawkes 's girlfriend and later wife , the red-haired Sandy Carmichael , of whom he was genuinely fond . |
| 28 | Those in authority had decided that Marcus should intermit a year of his education , in order to recuperate , and that he should not live with his father , a man of uncertain temper , of whom he had expressed extreme and unreasoning terror . |
| 29 | Grace Bird , whom he had worked with before and of whom he was fond , spent most nights up at the hospital knitting in the waiting-room while Dotty ministered to poor old Dickie St Ives , and although he respected Mary Deare as a performer — she was possibly the best Peter since Nina Boucicault — she had never been a chum . |
| 30 | 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 ? ) . |