Example sentences of "of [pron] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alongside , it grew other patterns of pastoral care and supervision , based upon organization by years , with year-tutors often moving up through the school with the pupils , at least some of whom they could teach on a regular basis . |
| 2 | Some had children of whom they could be proud ; some were ashamed of their offspring . |
| 3 | The party had 143 salaried staff , most of whom it could no longer afford to keep . |
| 4 | in the January edition of She magazine , but although it 's the January edition , it er does pertain to Christmas , because it 's all about the guests you invite to your home over the festive period , some of whom you could well do without . |
| 5 | In front of me I could see the dark shape of a summer-house and I moved towards it . |
| 6 | Once the idea took hold of me I could n't rid myself of it . ’ |
| 7 | With what she was going to leave to each of her relations written down in it so that when she got fed up with one of them she could just strike his name out ! ’ |
| 8 | If she married one of them she could look forward to a life of uncertainty , warfare , shortages , assassinations , massacres and tragedy . |
| 9 | To the right there were farm buildings which had been refurbished and through the open door of one of them he could glimpse open shelving displaying rows of pots . |
| 10 | If there were spokes and the Scapegoat happened to be topside of them it could n't fall through . ’ |
| 11 | Conveniently one of them you could call long-term , one medium-term , and one short-term . |
| 12 | POLICE were reconstructing yesterday the movements of the couple murdered in a ‘ lovers ’ lane ’ in Epping Forest , Essex , in the hope of jogging the memory of someone who could help find the killer . |
| 13 | Incidentally , mooning is n't one of my habits but for another canoeist to refer to the ‘ dork2 who owns a red Escort van is a rather nebulous description of someone who could fall into that category simply because he owns a red van and whose hobby happens to be canoeing — it makes one feel guilty without trial . |
| 14 | Elizabeth took no part in this discussion and Lydia wondered whether it was her imagination or whether Elizabeth had the air of someone who could say a great deal if she chose . |
| 15 | May I , once again , ask anyone who knows of someone who could benefit from a grant to please let us know . |
| 16 | ‘ It is just impossible to understand the sick , perverted mentality of someone who could stab horses in this way , ’ he said . |
| 17 | ‘ Now you think of someone you could marry , miss , ’ said Liddy , ‘ then read aloud the words on that page , and if the Bible moves , perhaps you 'll marry him . ’ |
| 18 | He played that aspect of himself which could well have been in a war — after all he had trained long enough for it — and the result was the sort of performance he was to deliver several times in his film career and none the worse for that : professional , convincing . |
| 19 | As yet , I know of nobody who could beat me . ’ |
| 20 | As yet , I know of nobody who could beat me ’ |
| 21 | Yet Mr Kohl seems more interested in getting votes from right-wingers than in winning them for Turks : the most he has done to change the citizenship law is to wonder aloud whether Germany 's Turks might be granted dual citizenship for a trial five years , at the end of which they could choose to be either Turks or Germans . |
| 22 | Accordingly , peasant aspirations remained firmly fixed on the one panacea of which they could conceive : the land of the nobility . |
| 23 | There is clearly force in this ‘ equal treatment ’ argument , which was later deployed in defence of the Schlunk decision by the United States delegation at a Special Commission of the Hague Conference held in April 1989 ; but as between the United Sates and the German Federal Republic it is German plaintiffs who emerge at a disadvantage , for German law has no doctrine similar to that of involuntary agency of which they could make use . |
| 24 | Broken by seas of which they could drink nothing . |
| 25 | Obviously they can not be expected to vet all the publications they sell , and it would be grossly unfair to hold them responsible for libels of which they could have no knowledge . |
| 26 | But the passing over of Neil Back leaves the Lions without a commodity of which they could find themselves in dire need . |
| 27 | So the first people who made films , the first people who invented the apparatus by means of which they could be made , were relatively simple showmen or photographers , or in certain cases like Edison , erm the , you know a professional inventor , who would use either his staff to develop a piece of apparatus , or would do it himself . |
| 28 | He thought that the only things of which we could be really certain were things of which we were directly aware , that is , things in our own minds . |
| 29 | They brought presents of ham , nuts , cakes and bottles of wine for the journey , most of which we could n't possibly take with us as we had no room in our suitcases . |
| 30 | Naturally I was disappointed that the most notable name of which we could boast had to be excluded : and although I knew that he disliked re-reading his prose works , I was as sorry that he felt the essay to be below standard as I was to regret his later repudiation of After Strange Gods . |