Example sentences of "of they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of them died leaving a minor to succeed . |
| 2 | Henry II had five sons who were suspicious and envious of each other , but three of them died before Henry died in the summer of 1189 , and all his possessions passed to Richard , who had pledged himself to set out for the Holy Land on the Third Crusade . |
| 3 | Two of them died . |
| 4 | LOU : Listen to this poem : ‘ Some of my friends dress as women/Some of them like to take smack/Some of them died of diseases/But all of them think I am crap . ’ |
| 5 | Many of them died , but as I left in September , there was a tangible improvement in the condition of those remaining . |
| 6 | One of them died almost immediately ; its little body was dressed in a clean nightdress and linen cap and its arms were folded on its breast ; then it was taken at night to be buried . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , a couple of them died recently . |
| 8 | Four of them died in there , all in the last eighteen months . ’ |
| 9 | One of them died soon afterwards ; and the other one — I saw it myself-was so bad and its head so swollen up with the stings that it had to be supported in its stable by a kind of sling fixed to the roof . ’ |
| 10 | Signor Baruffini and another farmer were sent to Germany : both of them died in Mathausen . |
| 11 | Of course lots of them died . |
| 12 | Some 1500 native prisoners had their right hand and left foot cut off , the traditional punishment for fighting against their country : most of them died . |
| 13 | My dogs could not run much further , and one of them died . |
| 14 | Many of them died triumphantly . |
| 15 | The Uniates , who were found mainly in Transylvania , had some 1,700,000 adherents and 1,500 churches before their suppression in 1948 , after which time they operated underground with 500 clandestine priests , their 12 bishops having been put in prison , where all but two of them died . |
| 16 | Of the five rebleeders , two received a second injection with the same solution and one achieved haemostasis , the other refused an operation and died soon afterwards ; one received heater probe thermocoagulation and achieved haemostasis ; and two received surgical intervention ( one of them died of wound infection with sepsis , the other had an uneventful course ) . |
| 17 | He stroked the strings , and before the echo of them died , he said , ‘ Señorita me quieres ? ’ |
| 18 | Most of them died in the onslaught which followed , their historic city completely destroyed . |
| 19 | Many of them died because drivers simply did n't see them in the dark or poor visibility . |
| 20 | Most of them died of starvation , beatings or exposure to sub-zero weather , bound naked to trees outside the group 's mountain hideouts. — Reuter |
| 21 | More than 2,000 British volunteers flocked to fight the Fascists but 500 of them died and nearly all the survivors were wounded . |
| 22 | Stirling County make some interesting changes for their match against Llandovery at Bridgehaugh tonight , some of them geared towards relegation battles that lie ahead . |
| 23 | So for most of them strayed prayed stayed played you can just put E D. |
| 24 | All of them owed their existence to the efforts and generosity of private citizens and clergy ; most of them were similar to Joseph Watson 's asylum . |
| 25 | It was conducted , too , in French since France was the country to which most of them owed intellectual allegiance . |
| 26 | Six of them lent her £3,700 , secured by the Trust with interest , to pay ‘ all incumbrances absolutely necessary to be immediately discharged ’ . |
| 27 | The king did not lack military resources , but they were useless if the men who were placed in command of them defected to the enemy . |
| 28 | The dime dropped , and one of them grinned , tucked his riffle under his arm and reached into his uniform . |
| 29 | As they came , many of them spat repeatedly , leaving behind them a trail of crimson , betel-stained saliva on the burning concrete of the wharf . |
| 30 | Finally , before they went away , one of them kissed me . |