Example sentences of "of [pron] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond them are the also-rans , other disaffected characters , who were on the receiving end of tempting , exciting , ego-boosting telephone calls which were never subsequently followed up , from headhunters of whom they never heard anything again . |
| 2 | She was a staunch Methodist and a great admirer of our mutual friend Edna Jacques , of whom we often spoke . |
| 3 | He had large collections of books by Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges and Robert Pearce Gillies , which were possibly gifts , but nothing by Keats or Shelley , of whom he probably did not approve . |
| 4 | And the rivals of whom he never talks ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | I found myself sitting between two young officers , both of whom I quickly came to know well . |
| 8 | Your novel found many readers of whom you never knew . |
| 9 | This kept her in Scotland cut off from the son of her first marriage and the daughter of the second in France , both of whom she clearly loved . |
| 10 | He was approaching thirty-two and the elusive big break and rainbow 's end that is the goal of everyone who ever set foot in Hollywood seemed no nearer to achievement . |
| 11 | When , as they moved towards their first coupling , ‘ it was as if the whole of myself , body and spirit , even parts of me I never knew existed , came alive at his touch ’ ? |
| 12 | Immediately behind him sat Howard and Shirley Brown , silent and sombre , each thinking thoughts that were quite impossible for any observer to ascertain — even for the two of them themselves fully to comprehend . |
| 13 | He said you 'd had two more fax , one of them they just wanted a current catalogue |
| 14 | When the knights reformed in front of them they suddenly launched a wild shout , and welded into one moving weapon , that aimed itself at the enemy beyond the river , and this time did not halt . |
| 15 | Humans talk and talk , but there is only one of them who truly understands the battle we wage here against the dark — though we fight for their sake as much as ours ! |
| 16 | She could alienate a whole list of people , and still come away without knowing which one of them she actually wanted . |
| 17 | A couple of them she never used . |
| 18 | But being able to make nothing of them he finally drifted off to sleep . |
| 19 | Today , somehow , she would find out which of the two of them he really loved . |
| 20 | Some of them he still keeps as ornaments . |
| 21 | Some o , to some of them it just bores them stiff . |
| 22 | one of them you already have , you 've er given me some good information for this fact find , you 've helped me fill it in |
| 23 | When you get one of them you just jump around . |
| 24 | Even the dust and horse-smell seemed to be still with him and he reminded you of Lamarr Dean and Early and almost everyone of them you ever saw : all made of the same leather and hardly ever smiling unless they were with their own look-alike brothers . |
| 25 | No not afraid of them I just do n't want |
| 26 | In July 1914 while preparing the volume for publication , he confided to his close friend Florence Henniker : ‘ Some of them I rather shrink from printing — those I wrote just after Emma died , when I looked back at her as she had originally been , & when I felt miserable lest I had not treated her considerately in her latter life . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's the last photograph of them I ever took . |
| 28 | Not like most of the theatrical friends of yours who really do n't listen , do they ? |
| 29 | Through events of different kinds we are likely to be put in touch with aspects of ourselves which previously have been overlooked — we are given a jolt , and have to make a bridge between how things used to be and how they threatened . |
| 30 | ‘ The results show that we can be 99 per cent certain that these are the remains of Josef Mengele rather than the remains of someone who coincidentally had precisely the same genetic makeup . ’ |