Example sentences of "of [pron] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 As I was leaving the front of the house two jeeps arrived with wounded aboard , one of whom I recognised straight away .
2 The only common factor was Mrs Marcia Williams ( now Lady Falkender ) , his private and political secretary , of whom I saw very little , but I saw enough of her to realise the immense influence she exercised over Harold Wilson .
3 As Robin said to me later , ‘ suddenly to walk in and to see a sea of faces , all of whom I knew well , was the most tremendously stirring moment .
4 My application to do research at Cambridge was accepted , provided I got a first , but to my annoyance my supervisor was not Hoyle but a man called Denis Sciama , of whom I had not heard .
5 We also have a number of collectors , one of whom I visited recently to discover a house so piled with neatly catalogued shoe boxes full of cards that I could not see how he and I might successfully get from the front door to the kitchen without a Sherpa .
6 Heyward , of whom I have just made mention , writes of Jesus as follows : ‘ Jesus matters only if he was fully , and only , human . ’
7 These are evident in the projects of a wide variety of film-makers , artists , novelists , poets and photographers , some of whom I have already referred to .
8 I can think of nothing I want more . ’
9 Some of them I slept out on , others — about half of them — I soloed , which I like doing and choose from preference these days . ’
10 On some of them I 've just put John P I think .
11 I 've got all his family some of them I 've never met .
12 I , I know the last time and I was reading all me pamphlets that came through and I thought why , you know , but a lot of them I du n no it 's hard to know who to vote for I think
13 When I got clear of them I went down almost to sea level and there were two holes in the water about where my two would have gone in .
14 Some of them I had already encountered in Tanglewood Tales I and II , which I 'd read in the class library at a younger and less sexually conscious age , but the power of those stories also lay in what was only half-knowable .
15 Some of them I had never seen before and some were there to satisfy their curiosity .
16 But I te I agree with those points , I mean most of them I go along with .
17 A recent visit to the Festival of Photoreportage was the first time that Tony had met other members of the group , ‘ Some of them I did n't know and for me that was the wondrous part of being at Perpignan . ’
18 I 've now been in this game for about eighteen years and I suppose thirteen of them I did n't have two beans to rub together .
19 So I think it is turning like that but it w certainly was n't when I went to most of them I did n't , I never met anybody from Channing or Highgate or l or from north London schools anyway .
20 Right the rest of them I do n't really want to go through it too much because that 's that was just to show you an example .
21 I gave him a ridiculous list of things ( most of them I do n't want , but it 'll keep him busy ) to buy .
22 Yeah , some of them I like , some of them I do n't like , er
23 No cos some of them I do n't like !
24 car it 'll do either one of them I do n't care whether you 've got a diesel engine or a petrol engine as long as it 'll get me from A to B.
25 My problems were : I had a body in the bath right behind me , a girl I 'd known for less than twenty-four hours in a bed in the next room , I was staying in the house of somebody I 'd never met who was currently at a family wedding somewhere north of Karachi and somewhere down the yellow brick road I had to call the cops .
26 Several of the travelling memoirists have counted 12 ; I can state with certainty that there were 14 , ten of which I experienced personally . ’
27 I 'm afraid of dogs , but a rage the like of which I 'd never known before — and rarely since — took hold of me and I wanted to kill it , rip it limb from limb and tear at its throat with my teeth .
28 At this time I began , having been converted through reading the gospels , carefully to read the book of Acts and discovered there a level of Christian effectiveness of which I knew very little .
29 The church and state broadcasts to which he referred in his next letter were noteworthy as containing one of his own , of which I thought highly .
30 I wanted to run out of the room , back to South London , where I belonged , out of which I had wrongly and arrogantly stepped .
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