Example sentences of "of [pron] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith devoted some space to explaining how , imbued with martial spirit , yeomen followed the lords of whom they held their land to war , serving on foot as archers . |
| 2 | This would remove Balfour , Salisbury , Joynson-Hicks , Cushendun and Bridgeman , but also Austen Chamberlain , of whom he felt he could not dispose . |
| 3 | Even in front of me they did it . |
| 4 | ‘ When John Cook got to within two shots of me I thought I might not win . |
| 5 | Moreover , there was something about both of them which reminded her of her favourite actor , Laurence Olivier . |
| 6 | Even when she crash-landed into the middle of them they found it funny . |
| 7 | ‘ It was just one of them who assaulted me . |
| 8 | And he would think how to each of them she had her proper place , to the left of the Town Clock or to the right of the water-rower — one single , certain planet shining across all the roofs of England . |
| 9 | So , I do n't know wha , we , he did get some but erm a lot of them he wished he 'd brought |
| 10 | ‘ You encouraged those people , then when you tired of them you discarded them . ’ |
| 11 | Every one of them I told them all about peep hole |
| 12 | It was interesting first time out , but after a couple of them I realised it was n't my cup of tea . ’ |
| 13 | Well there 's two things I 'd like I ca n't have both of them I thought I 'd have a prawn and cocktail |
| 14 | McLeish reflected that Giles Hawick was the classic example of someone who knew what they wanted and did n't mess around , and that that was what had attracted Francis Morgan 's daughter . |
| 15 | Everything about him spelt self-assurance , the confidence of someone who had nothing at all to prove to the world . |
| 16 | Who , anyway , would want to read an autobiography of someone who saw himself as God 's gift to aviation and the RAF in particular ? |
| 17 | William Morris threw a fifteenth century quarto , so valuable that he would permit no one else to handle it , at the head of someone who annoyed him . |
| 18 | A girl on a health education course I once taught told me of someone she knew whose husband had died after six months of marriage . |
| 19 | The man 's so sure of himself he pressed me , would have me reason it out with the boy until I was satisfied . |
| 20 | Although this was no fault of theirs you hated them for it . |
| 21 | Yes I , after I lost my daughter I had to go into erm , into the factory to make aeroplane pieces at Burnt Mill cos I was so bad with my nerves after I lost her , er just afternoons I had to go and then I was taken ill I could n't do it , well then after my erm , I got my family off to school I took a part time job in erm one of the factories making tea in the mornings for the office and coffees and that for the office and then in the afternoons I used to do the tea as well , I used to cycle there , I quite enjoyed it until my right hip started coming bad then I had to pack it in , but I was in there , I was there for about four years and I thoroughly enjoyed it you know making tea and that , I did n't have to take it round only collect the money to go round and collect the money , but used to have to put the trolley outside and they used to come and get their tea each one , of which they knew which was their mugs and cups ha , you know , I , I thoroughly enjoyed that job , really great |
| 22 | Others remembered setting Greek , Latin , other foreign languages and mathematics ( subjects of which they knew nothing , but which were a matter of professional pride ) . |
| 23 | Together they tour the libraries of the world , while their photo archive contains 50,000 negatives , many of which they took themselves . |
| 24 | This is what made them anxious about the attitudes of powerful men in their societies — rulers , great magnates — towards the churches of which they considered themselves the lords . |
| 25 | They demanded an even more radical approach to delinquency that would tackle not the individual offender but the wider deprivation and social injustice of which they considered him the product . |
| 26 | Neither my sister nor I can remember exactly what we had for dinner , but we chose not merely a good cheese but a claret of which we hoped he would approve . |
| 27 | Would it even matter , if this rabble of which he had himself once been a part , managed to get their vote and fill the House of Commons with men who would pass Factory Acts galore , including that damnable Ten Hours Bill of Richard Oastler 's , so that no man would be able to control his own affairs ? |
| 28 | ’ His ‘ instant portrait ’ — on the accuracy of which he prided himself enormously — was that the client was most likely a starter , could very well be a married man , children off his hands , time on his hands , going back to his own public school days ( the velvet collar on the overcoat was a giveaway ) and the boys will be boys bit or just realized very late that what he really fancied was a bit of the other and had to wallet to get it . |
| 29 | Skaller smiled bitterly : surely he sentenced , had to sentence those who were dragged before him because of this love , for the sake of this same love with which he himself once loved — of which he knew nothing more today — which he had forgotten — or which he thought of yet only as an aberration of his youth . |
| 30 | Last week Mr McTear , who was 48 , began giving evidence in the case the end of which he knew he would never see . |