Example sentences of "of [pron] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond them are the also-rans , other disaffected characters , who were on the receiving end of tempting , exciting , ego-boosting telephone calls which were never subsequently followed up , from headhunters of whom they never heard anything again . |
| 2 | She was a staunch Methodist and a great admirer of our mutual friend Edna Jacques , of whom we often spoke . |
| 3 | He had large collections of books by Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges and Robert Pearce Gillies , which were possibly gifts , but nothing by Keats or Shelley , of whom he probably did not approve . |
| 4 | She had been relieved when he first appeared in it ; it was bright blue striped with red , expensive , obviously new , a reassuring sign that the mother she had never met and of whom he never spoke , tried to take good care of him . |
| 5 | And the rivals of whom he never talks ? |
| 6 | His success rate was obvious by the number of struggling competitors , many of whom he subsequently bought out to add to his ever growing empire … |
| 7 | I found myself sitting between two young officers , both of whom I quickly came to know well . |
| 8 | Your novel found many readers of whom you never knew . |
| 9 | This kept her in Scotland cut off from the son of her first marriage and the daughter of the second in France , both of whom she clearly loved . |
| 10 | He was approaching thirty-two and the elusive big break and rainbow 's end that is the goal of everyone who ever set foot in Hollywood seemed no nearer to achievement . |
| 11 | It is true he could have told you of me what now I have told you . |
| 12 | I use Real Words for parts of me Which formerly |
| 13 | However , the grim , vulnerable face staring out of the canvas reveals a side of me which undoubtedly is real enough , but one which I 'm sure Jane has never seen . |
| 14 | When , as they moved towards their first coupling , ‘ it was as if the whole of myself , body and spirit , even parts of me I never knew existed , came alive at his touch ’ ? |
| 15 | You know what I mean , you have made fun of them yourself already — ’ |
| 16 | There are plenty of schemes designed to solve the ACT problem on the market at the moment , although Philip Doyle , a tax partner at Arthur Andersen , warns that ‘ a large number of them we probably would n't recommend to our clients ! ’ |
| 17 | Immediately behind him sat Howard and Shirley Brown , silent and sombre , each thinking thoughts that were quite impossible for any observer to ascertain — even for the two of them themselves fully to comprehend . |
| 18 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 19 | could be the two of them they just , when er , when Lee set out on a Saturday evening with er Kevin and they often sit there and er have a , er a bit of a snack , supper , light supper and er |
| 20 | He said you 'd had two more fax , one of them they just wanted a current catalogue |
| 21 | When the knights reformed in front of them they suddenly launched a wild shout , and welded into one moving weapon , that aimed itself at the enemy beyond the river , and this time did not halt . |
| 22 | ‘ Three lords — two of them our most able captains — leaving us on such a quest . ’ |
| 23 | Humans talk and talk , but there is only one of them who truly understands the battle we wage here against the dark — though we fight for their sake as much as ours ! |
| 24 | She could alienate a whole list of people , and still come away without knowing which one of them she actually wanted . |
| 25 | A couple of them she never used . |
| 26 | But being able to make nothing of them he finally drifted off to sleep . |
| 27 | Today , somehow , she would find out which of the two of them he really loved . |
| 28 | Some of them he still keeps as ornaments . |
| 29 | Well there 's one lad he driving the waggon er he works for another branch of them it just the haulage whatsit . |
| 30 | Some o , to some of them it just bores them stiff . |