Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three of them looked at each other , and Husband said cautiously : ‘ If you say a matter of hours , you do mean tonight ? ’ |
| 2 | The three of them looked into each other 's faces , and seemed to breathe more freely . |
| 3 | Few of them recovered from this experience . |
| 4 | Only 1,000 people work on long-term — usually one-to two-year — secondments in the UK at present , many of them arranged by London-based secondment broker the Action Resource Centre . |
| 5 | The four of them lived in one house with the father of the two men . |
| 6 | Was it Gregory Peck or one of them walked into this studio in America , oh James Stewart was it ? |
| 7 | Clinically , an acute self limiting obstructive condition was evident in 13 cases with AA , and 12 of them returned to normal bowel function after receiving total parenteral nutrition . |
| 8 | So elegant chateaux , some of them pressed into contemporary usefulness without loss of character , exist beside new swimming pools . |
| 9 | The ladies murmured reluctant agreement , since most of them had at one time or another tried to oust her from at least one of the appointments which they themselves coveted . |
| 10 | A further survey of men in the Camberwell Reception Centre one night in 1965 found that a quarter of them had at one time been in mental hospitals and a further quarter were heavily dependent on alcohol . |
| 11 | A batch of them came in this morning . ’ |
| 12 | When questioned further very few of them thought of this God or power as a man , but either as a person without a body or as something like air or gas , and a few said they did not know or that there was no God . |
| 13 | The information flew over the Normandy beaches and as they approached the town of Caen , a wing ahead of them ran into heavy flak . |
| 14 | So , when they had finished their ward round , the two of them went to each patient in turn and inquired tactfully whether they ate earth . |
| 15 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
| 16 | They presented a target thus for only a matter of seconds , though three of them fell in that time ; then they were hand-to-hand and at blows with the prince 's bodyguard and this was battle as it had formerly been understood between knights , and the hovering archers were crippled and out of the fight . |
| 17 | The three of them watched in breathless silence as the doors reached their maximum aperture . |
| 18 | During 1981–2 , twenty schemes of Unified Vocational Preparation were run in Wales , all of them sponsored by industrial training boards and the further education colleges . |
| 19 | Hospitals throughout the area were put on full alert as fleets of ambulances carried the injured , most of them hit by flying glass , to casualty departments . |
| 20 | If they became angry at things said to them by professionals , as a majority of them did at some point , the horrifying causes of their anger were true , and were not projections of their own distress on to the professional concerned . |
| 21 | Books — shelves and shelves of books , reaching up to the ceiling , most of them bound in pale calf with gold lettering on the spines . |
| 22 | She felt completely comfortable in her presence , and the two of them talked to each other more or less as equals . |
| 23 | As I approached , one of them spoke with weary resignation : ‘ Would you please get this vehicle out of here as quickly as possible , sir ’ . |
| 24 | Among the developing countries that participated in the World Fertility Survey ( WFS ) , the median age at which women aged 25 to 29 years at the time of interview first married or entered a union ( i.e. , the age at which one half of them entered into conjugal union ) ranged from 13.1 years in Bangladesh to 23.0 in Sri Lanka . |
| 25 | Some of them travelled in fifth class , which consisted of boxcars totally bereft of comfort . |
| 26 | And how many lived in all of you lived in one house ? |
| 27 | One or two of you sent in real song titles and ascribed them to particular people . |
| 28 | He had been informed that John Browne spoke with a stutter but the elder of the two men in front of him spoke with such pride and composure that Claverhouse doubted if it was the right man . |
| 29 | The free edge of the epidermis has clearly moved in over the marked wound mesenchyme , leaving less than 10% of it exposed by this stage . |
| 30 | Fortunately today recordings of period music are now widely available , much of it performed on authentic period instruments . |