Example sentences of "[adj] of they [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them had to learn this . |
| 2 | Oh no of course ver very few of them had got any work . |
| 3 | Neither of them had breakfasted that morning . |
| 4 | Neither of them had expected this . |
| 5 | Neither of them appeared to represent any particular party , and the election was being fought entirely on personalities . |
| 6 | Neither of them did want that did you ? |
| 7 | A survey of Aberdeen University students conducted by Peter McKellar showed that about two thirds of them had experienced these sensations , which were slightly more often auditory sensations than visual ones . |
| 8 | But in this sterner , older world , the iron entered into the children 's soul , and many of them had to learn that being alive ought simply to be enough , a gift that must be ultimately paid for . |
| 9 | 1910 is the year in which the Cubist painters , other than Picasso and Braque , came together as a conscious group , although many of them had known each other earlier . |
| 10 | Of the teachers we spoke to , two-fifths reported that they had rearranged their furniture , and well over nine-tenths of them had made some kind of change to their classrooms as a direct consequence of suggestions or recommendations made to them as part of the Primary Needs Programme . |
| 11 | But if one of them had shown some of the you never , you 'd never get scenes like that . |
| 12 | Suppose one of them had used this knife onm me ? |
| 13 | They sat together , in the small-sized chairs brought up by Balor , and ate their breakfasts and told one another was n't this the finest meal ever and would they all look at the roasting oxen , because it was a long time , well it was years , really , since any of them had seen such a sight . |
| 14 | There was a silence after this during which both of them tried to integrate this information but could not . |
| 15 | By 1811 only some rural parishes were without any provision , while most of them had registered some improvement over the seventeenth century . |