Example sentences of "one of [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | which I think there were four competitors , one of whom got through to the district final and eventually to the national final that John is going to on Saturday . |
| 2 | Two recent cases of young Arabs dying while in police custody ( one of whom fell out of a window while being interrogated ) have added to this impression . |
| 3 | One of them came up behind him and hooked an arm around his throat while another snatched the whip from his hand . |
| 4 | She went straight into the kitchen , and automatically made them both a cup of coffee , a mutual family ritual when one of them went out to a meeting . |
| 5 | ‘ One of them opened up with a chopper . |
| 6 | He was an Edinburgh solicitor who had two houses , two cars and had commuted between two women before one of them found out about the other . |
| 7 | ‘ Then one of them flew up in front of us . |
| 8 | There were a lot of very nasty people around , then as now , and if one of them turned up in no condition for a party , lying on the towpath , there was no questions asked . ’ |
| 9 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |