Example sentences of "[adj] of [pron] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two of them leapt out of the beached cockboat and strode up past the fishwives , some of whom gave him a " good day " but most of whom preserved a surly silence . |
| 2 | This area to São Vicente is very sparsely populated and the road Passes through numerous tunnels and past cascading waterfalls , some of which give you a free car-wash , even in the summer when there has been no rain for months . |
| 3 | Some of us do it every day , others just once a week . |
| 4 | She must write a note to each of them to tell them the families were safe as soon as they were all accounted for . |
| 5 | He said , ‘ Neither of us knew what the other was doing . |
| 6 | He went to the top eight accountancy firms in London , all of which offered him a job . |
| 7 | All of which suggests what the drafts of the poems confirm — that he knew , or wanted to know , exactly what he was doing . |
| 8 | All of which makes it a bargain and one I shall miss for years to come . |
| 9 | All of yous give her a picture . |
| 10 | If , by any chance , you have a way of passing on messages to Frank ( via the supporters club maybe ) — Im sure all of us wish him the best … and hope to see him back here at Leeds in a few years so he can be 1st choice . |
| 11 | All of us did it the whole time . |
| 12 | His clever course management in the wake of continuous swing problems had made Olazabal a huge favourite with the Sun City galleries , many of whom rated him the superior of Seve Ballesteros , a two-time winner of the event . |
| 13 | It was just mean of him to give me a rotten old Bible instead . ’ |
| 14 | In its final moments a sophisticated urbane man in a nightclub is led discreetly through a back door into a room which is a mortuary run by nuns , one of whom shows him a dead body drawn out of a wall on a slab . |
| 15 | We came at last to his office which was basically a roomette like my own : that is to say , it was a seven-by-four-foot space on one side of a central corridor , containing a washbasin , a folding table and two seats , one of which concealed what the timetable coyly called ‘ facilities ’ . |
| 16 | One of them told me the changes they 've put now are so dramatic , there might as well have been a change of government . |
| 17 | This choice was helped to be made when one of them wrote me a nasty letter saying that it was clear that I wanted the other as my friend ( which , if I may say , was a lot of nonsense ) ! |
| 18 | One of them asked him a question . |
| 19 | ‘ Do you know , one of them brought me an oxtail the other evening ? ’ |
| 20 | All the recruits were dressed in blue tracksuits and the Corporal told one of them to show me a bed and explain what was going on . |
| 21 | One of them gave me a basket she had made and when I lifted the lid there was a card with her name in Greek and English , and the words ‘ For You ’ … . |
| 22 | The exchange which I began , ‘ Could one of you give me a hand with these lunatics ? ’ went as follows : ‘ Sorry sport , international regulations ; ca n't leave the flight deck . ’ |
| 23 | Of no mean magnetism himself — Lawrence thought highly enough of him to make him the recipient of some of his most excruciating introspections — Curtis was the inspirational force of that curious organization , the Round Table , in whose journal of the same name Lawrence published his article on the new imperialism in the Middle East . |
| 24 | It 's you that 's wanted down at the station and it was kind of you to give me a lift . |
| 25 | ‘ Mademoiselle Rossignol , it 's very kind of you to spare me a little of your time … ’ |
| 26 | She said it was very kind of you to make her a cake , and she 's asked you to tea at her house ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ How kind of you to bring me a Christmas pudding ! ’ she exclaimed . |
| 28 | Another greatly pleasurable result of the broadcast was that it put me in touch with colleagues of his , and their wives , in the lighthouse business , several of whom wrote me the kindest letters expressing the most heart-warming comments . |
| 29 | Do any of you know what the law is called that gives you your rights when you buy |
| 30 | We have written back to about 200 of them offering them the chance to attend the gymnasium . ’ |