Example sentences of "[conj] of [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly some very large forces have disrupted the outer regions of the Solar System at some stage , or stages , in the past , but we have no idea of when or of what they might have been . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In all the years I have been practising , and among all the hypnotherapists whom I know or of whom I have read , I have never heard of any individual suffering any side-effects at all — except positive ones . |
| 4 | Thus , the FIATA freight forwarder is not generally the actual carrier of the goods , although it can carry the cargo in vehicles or vessels it owns or has leased or of which it is the designated operator . |
| 5 | Thus if at this moment someone said something to me about " that ugly little statue on your fireplace " and accompanied this with an appropriate gesture , I should have little difficulty in identifying the object to which he is referring , but identification may not be so easy if a reference is made to an object that is not accessible to immediate perception , or of which I have no knowledge whatever . |
| 6 | ‘ Certainly not of me or of anything I might do . ’ |
| 7 | She turned towards him , ‘ Nor of which you would disapprove , I hope . ’ |
| 8 | And he had no idea of where to go , and how to find her — nor of what he would say to her when he did find her , either at the embassy or anywhere else she might have gone . |
| 9 | She could think of no reason why he should take the trouble nor of anything he seemed to want from her with which to persuade him . |
| 10 | The houses and cottages are of brick or half-timbered , and it has more of a feel of the Midlands than of what we imagine as Gloucestershire . |
| 11 | And I am more worried about what he thinks of me than of what he might do to Havvie . ’ |
| 12 | But this second mutation of Christianity was the work more of a change in the nature of the Roman world itself , its social and its political structure as well as its intellectual assumptions and its culture , than of anything we might call ‘ the impact of the barbarians ’ on it . |
| 13 | He was right to be prouder of his divertissement La chasse du cerf than of anything he had written previously , for he was somewhat out of his depth when it came to setting dramatic texts . |
| 14 | without protest from a parent , without a protest from a hunter without a protest from er a anyone else , that is a shame , because I tell you what , if you go drag hunting , you can keep the jobs the people are still going to have to shoe the horses traders and people like that are still going to have to produce the carriages to take the horses with them and the only people job jobs are in jeopardy are not the kennel staff it 's the terrier men and to be quite honest , ladies and gentlemen , it 's the terrier men who have actually ruined your sport , cos of what they get up to in nineteen ninety three is a disgust and at the end of the day your P R has been absolutely wrong and I hope this afternoon that Conservatives and Liberals can join with us and I 've got to thank a certain Liberal because he 's he 's put his head on the block on several occasions on this when we stood on the platform as individuals , not as politicians , as individuals on this and I think that this afternoon we 've got a way forward , we can say to the hunt , come and talk you change , we 'll give you access . |
| 15 | Cos of what they did to erm |
| 16 | Cos I know cos of what I 've put in |
| 17 | Victoria was silent throughout the service and as they stood by the side of the grave where George was laid to rest beside his parents , she noticed in amazement that most of the women cried and that even her Grandad Oaks , who often appeared fierce and of whom she was a little afraid , took out a handkerchief and surreptitiously wiped his eyes . |
| 18 | Our lists contained the names of the family ‘ prigs ’ we knew were professional thieves and burglars ; and of whom I was advised on my arrival in the department by an old detective : ‘ you only get one chance a year to nail these bastards if you are lucky , so when you do , its got to be watertight ’ . |
| 19 | This is a tough remit but then the student trainers we selected are tough — a battle hardened crew from the cultural interface , who are either full-time interpreters or language teachers — and of whom I am inordinately proud . |
| 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 | Other unique material in the Southern Collection includes the unpublished manuscript notebooks of the distinguished theatre historian , William John Lawrence , who was born in Dublin in 1862 , and of whom it was once said that to whatever aspect of theatre history the student may turn , Lawrence will have been there before him . |
| 22 | The girl who was now confronting Joe was someone strange and of whom he held no memory in any corner of his mind . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But we are often faced with the experienced need to make ‘ sense ’ of our lives and our feelings and goals , to relate confused fragments of ourselves into something that seems more coherent and of which we feel more in control . |
| 26 | DAVID HUME in 1757 wrote ‘ There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves and transfer to every object those qualities with which they are intimately acquainted and of which they are intimately conscious . ’ |
| 27 | Burton was in his Valhalla : a company largely of men , a chosen few , who could endure ancient and god-like debauches , sing old songs , recite the enduring poetry of the race spin yarns which threaded together truth and fiction in a seamless flow of talk — while outside there was world war and the danger of war to which they were all headed and of which they were all unafraid . |
| 28 | After the war I vowed I would never wear a white tie again , and never have , I dislike it so much ; so , having been informed that most of those below the salt would be wearing black ties anyway , I put on my Kennedy tartan smoking jacket with green velvet facings which I had recently had made and of which I was sure that Sir Walter , who often wore a plaid , would have approved . |
| 29 | But to say that the half-yearly payments were to continue till the whole sum of £2,090 19s. , ‘ and interest thereon , ’ should have been fully paid and satisfied , would be to introduce very important words into the agreement which are not there , and of which I can not say that they are necessarily implied . |
| 30 | Understood thus it avoids the questions ( and therefore the problems ) , which Leonard nowhere addresses : such as the historicity , canonicity and the like of the world-faiths — to his mind a species of academic involvement with which he was not interested and of which he was even disdainful . |