Example sentences of "of which [pers pn] could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They brought presents of ham , nuts , cakes and bottles of wine for the journey , most of which we could n't possibly take with us as we had no room in our suitcases . |
| 2 | There are no means that I know of , perhaps some social scientists present could suggest some , by means of which you could actually assess just what sort of a contribution he made . |
| 3 | Looking back , I can not deny that the grant of the licence was something of which he could legitimately complain , but his capacity for complaints exceeded any normal human being 's by a very large measure . |
| 4 | The Belgian watched the television , of which he could not understand a word . |
| 5 | In his dreams , Boyd Stych made a million for his son out of forty-storey apartment blocks , and was chased by a flying book the name of which he could not see . |
| 6 | So when he said murder , even that was not sure , but it was going to be a relief to be investigating a crime in which he had no personal connection and of which he could not be suspected . |
| 7 | Muller will watch from the stand knowing he is destined to face the England B team at Bristol on Saturday in preparation for a confrontation of which he could once only dream of : ‘ Facing Will Carling and Jeremy Guscott at Twickenham . ’ |
| 8 | It was a turn of the screw of which she could never have dreamt herself capable . |
| 9 | A ten For the next hour I took delivery of many additional purchases , the vast majority of which I could n't remember purchasing . |
| 10 | And with a most clumsy technique , the audacity and crudeness of which I could hardly believe . |
| 11 | Yet if we deny the creature this understanding , which even Clark himself seems to acknowledge , yet insist with him that it nonetheless fears death , then it is in the distinctly paradoxical position of fearing something of which it could not , in any sense , be aware . |