Example sentences of "of [pron] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1957 there were just 140 lifers in prison ; thirty years later , in 1987 the number had grown to over 2,200 , of whom about one in five had received their life sentence for an offence other than murder . |
| 2 | Although the sociologists and anthropologists are too polite to mention it , social codes in general including in these changing times whichever one was brought up in oneself by the preceding generation , can be seen from a sufficient distance to have been in large part shaped by gross delusions about the cosmos and about man , and by a brutal ignorance of everyone outside one 's own people , sex and class . |
| 3 | There was a strange comfort in the idea that a society of everyone except ourselves was ‘ manufacturing ’ mental illness . |
| 4 | Eventually , you should have collected the opinion of everyone on your ‘ hit list ’ and , if no one has shown any interest in your music , you need to consider their reactions very carefully . |
| 5 | As with the earlier , mainstream , psychology of women , the contemporary feminist version focuses predominantly on women 's low-status roles as mothers and motherers , the biological , social and emotional facilitators of everyone around them . |
| 6 | He was tortured and temperamental and hugely demanding of everyone around him . |
| 7 | He wanted to control the lives of everyone around him , dictating even what food they should eat . |
| 8 | The Government has instructed all Local Authorities in the country to prepare registers of everyone in their area who will have to pay this new tax . |
| 9 | We quickly made the acquaintance of everyone in our lane which was part of a very scattered village , and after the children started school there were always some of their friends around the house . |
| 10 | Even experienced mountain walkers take to them with varying degrees of enthusiasm — so you should consider if that sort of thing will be to the taste of everyone in your group . |
| 11 | He had come out first of everyone in his early examinations , and worked constantly . |
| 12 | A variant on this was established in Britain in 1937 , with the founding of Mass Observation , whose object was ‘ observation of everyone by everyone , including themselves ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Over the years ’ — Haverford did his best to sound modest — ‘ you might speak of me as one who has loved not wisely but too well . ’ |
| 14 | In fact , it never occurred to me that it made a difference until I was in a trial and a scout said ‘ We 're quite interested in the coloured lad ’ and that was the first time I realized they thought of me as anything other than my name . |
| 15 | Think of me as your psychiatrist , I say . |
| 16 | ‘ Do not think of me as your adversary — he already exists on Earth . |
| 17 | He brought me up as his own son , and was very proud of me as his son . |
| 18 | In my view our fellow Members , who lived with us cheek by jowl , were fully aware of my strengths and weaknesses and were unlikely to be impressed by pictures of me on their TV screens dressed in a striped apron and pretending to wash up in the kitchen , as had happened during the Tory leadership election . |
| 19 | It has got a lot of me on it . |
| 20 | When he sees a video of me on our telly , he says : ‘ Oh no , not her again ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ And not even think of me on my birthday ? ’ mused Juliet . |
| 22 | ‘ He was such a vital force in my life , and when he was gone , he took so much of me with him . |
| 23 | Someone leaned down in front of me with his cupped palms outstretched . |
| 24 | I 'll tell you this ; every term when I watch that school train go out I feel as if it 's taking two-thirds of me with it . ’ |
| 25 | Tell me , have you discussed your low opinion of me with your mother ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You 've been making a meal of me with your eyes all evening ! ’ |
| 27 | At the photo of me with my thumbs |
| 28 | Take a photo of me for her . |
| 29 | The kindness of my Kildalton friends in thinking of me for their minister is encouraging as showing that no truly earnest , honest . |
| 30 | He listens , he listens to it afterwards and he goes no I ca n't understand , well now I can , now I can understand why they take the piss out of me for my voice . |