Example sentences of "[num] of [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All three of us looked down the embankment and it became apparent there was a body there , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Four or five of them broke down the door of the Admiral Benbow and ran inside . |
| 3 | The five of them scrambled up the narrow carpeted stairway . |
| 4 | They were jumping up and putting their paws up so they I went up back upstairs and they sk tried to skid up but they were going so quickly that one of them went down the step again . |
| 5 | One of them got out the ugliest looking knife that I have seen to cut a piece of string or something on his bicycle . |
| 6 | One of them switched on the light , her finger tips painted with a silvery pearl , and the other switched it off with an animal claw . |
| 7 | One of them picked up the rolled newspaper which Clasper had flung into the crowd . |
| 8 | I stood transfixed as two of them shot down the Glacier des Grands Montets carving beautiful turns all the way down beneath the north face of the Drus . |