Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keith was told to ‘ come-on ’ and the girl in front of me wiggled her behind . |
| 2 | He sent a postcard to a well known photographer stating : ‘ Your cover shot of me moved me enormously . |
| 3 | Neither of them knew her well , but they would recognise her as the secretary of someone important in the administration . |
| 4 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |
| 5 | None of them saw him again . |
| 6 | I 've only wok woken up to this in the later part of my life , but even then , it 's difficult to put it all together but er these three of them had it more succinctly than I could . |
| 7 | And which of them brought you here to my rooms ? ’ |
| 8 | It was a moody holiday and I followed the roads ; some of them led me aright and some astray . |
| 9 | And that neither of them told anyone else afterwards . ’ |
| 10 | Many of them took their carefully stored tricolours from their hiding places . |
| 11 | Keith hesitated and the rest of them watched him anxiously , holding their breath . |
| 12 | I do not think that a single critic noticed that it was any different from the customary ‘ rum-te-tum ’ , but if one of them did he evidently did n't think it was worth a comment . |
| 13 | None of them gave him more than four . |
| 14 | Over 3,500 of you told us exactly how PMS affects every area of your life . |
| 15 | So in a very different world to that of Shakespearean comedy , a must harsher abrasive world erm again th that bit where she 's ge get , do I get the impression that most of you found yours much more difficult to get into |
| 16 | And , although one part of her found it deeply frustrating , at another level Folly was grateful for his restraint . |
| 17 | Part of her trusted him still , but the voice of reason whispered that he could not be the frank and open person he appeared . |
| 18 | Part of her embraced it gratefully whilst the other , the sad , secret part , rejected and resented it , all the while clinging blindly to what had been . |
| 19 | What I knew of him corrupted me far less than the false ideas I conceived . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's funny you should say that , ’ said Miss Mack 's Solicitor , from a resumed recumbent position , rather dreading his appearance as No. 11 in boots too small for him , ‘ because an uncle by marriage of mine took me once to tea with some cousin of his who had been a county cricketer and this county chap said middle and leg was best because it gave you room to cut . ’ |
| 21 | The primitive sound of it stirred something deep inside me as though it were Pan himself , not some Indian labourer , playing those haunting notes on that rude instrument . |
| 22 | The explosive pain of it brought me hellishly back to full savage consciousness and to a revived desire not to become part of the eternal mystery just yet . |
| 23 | The irony of it struck her forcibly and her gurgling laughter broke out . |
| 24 | The thought of it scared them so much they turned all the lights out and went straight upstairs without even taking a candle in case he came up and saw the light under their door . |
| 25 | From somewhere in front of us came one more hopeless scream . |
| 26 | ‘ None of us knew her well , I suppose . ’ |
| 27 | One or two of us knew him quite well . |
| 28 | But Lord Justice Roskill , Lord Justice Lawton and Mr Justice Wien , who were hearing the appeal , took a different view : ‘ Each of us watched him closely while he was giving his evidence . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you remember , the three of us discussed it once ? |