Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun pl] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a couple of times , like when one of me friends brought some home on a ship from Thailand or somewhere . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've told yer before , 'e pays less than any ovver firm in Bermondsey an' 'e sacks 'is workers fer the least fing. 'E would n't tolerate the union fer ages an' as soon as any of 'is workers tried ter get the union in they were put off . |
| 3 | What happened was , one of my students wrote something in an examination essay and it got me fired . |
| 4 | As one of my students remarked : ‘ If men now have wombs , women are superfluous . ’ |
| 5 | One of my students had been using the machine and she had n't been knitting tuck , so the tuck brushes had been put out of work . |
| 6 | One of my students had come back , and was hesitating in the open door way . |
| 7 | As the afternoon wore on and the muted tones and friendly manner of my hosts remained unaltered , we discussed religion , morality and many of the people I had mentioned in the manuscript . |
| 8 | The previous X-ray of my lungs had been just before my operation in March . |
| 9 | ‘ I bought the local paper at Bath Station and the Evening Standard at Paddington just to see how many of my team-mates had been named , but there was no mention of the squad , ’ he added . |
| 10 | The titles of my lectures had not changed since the early sixties : Bernini , Borromini , Carlo Fontana , Sculpture I and Sculpture II . |
| 11 | ‘ But I still have four of my teddies left . |
| 12 | One of my friends thought she was pregnant and she told my mum before her own mum . |
| 13 | Plus the fact that one of my friends thought it was a really funny idea if she stuck half a in one of my drinks and I almost died so that 's beside the point . |
| 14 | One or two of my friends made it their business to send me the cutting from the Paternoster Review . |
| 15 | Last summer one of my friends lent me a C.B. and an old aerial as he had bought a new set and some more of my friends had C.B.s . |
| 16 | I loved it : when nearly every one of my friends came round , all they wanted to play was Super Wonder Boy . |
| 17 | We left the bar together ; one of my friends saw us leave and winked at us . |
| 18 | I think that 's why so many people from our school went into scientific things — they pushed you that way , but I know from my friends that the secondary school where a lot of my friends went to , the girls were encouraged to do typing , hairdressing , home-economics , all the rest of it . |
| 19 | ‘ Several of my friends went up yesterday , and were expecting to spearhead a big breakthrough . ’ |
| 20 | Bef before I went , er I er quite a few of my friends went . |
| 21 | Some of my friends went to the City They 're better paid — but spare your pity ; There 's more to life than pounds and pence — My quality of life 's immense : A cosy office , nearly new , Equipped with latest PS2 . |
| 22 | It 's next door to my old middle school , it 's where a lot of my friends went . |
| 23 | Do you know one or two of my friends castigated me two years ago for taking food to somebody who was sleeping in the gardens . |
| 24 | The only thing that stopped them cutting us to ribbons was that one of my friends had the gift of the gab and gradually defused the situation by talking good sense in a calm reasonable way ; finally he pointed out that we would all end up in the local police cells if anything happened anyway . |
| 25 | Last summer one of my friends lent me a C.B. and an old aerial as he had bought a new set and some more of my friends had C.B.s . |
| 26 | One of my friends said he was a romantic boy who thought he bore a charmed life , but I argued that this was a superficial judgment . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm afraid that if I go grey , ’ one of my friends said , ‘ men wo n't try to chat me up on planes . ’ |
| 28 | It 's magnificent , one of my friends said , after the revolution we 'll turn it into a sports centre . |
| 29 | I seldom went there ; instead I frequented the Gridiron , to which most of my friends belonged . |
| 30 | During the Spanish Civil War ( 1936–38 ) many of my friends left Glasgow to join the British battalion of the International Brigade . |