Example sentences of "[num] of they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anthony Smith , of the Consumers ' Association , said they had received 21 complaints about the machines — 12 of them describing serious fires . |
| 2 | Only three of the 13 Democrats originally pledged to vote for Thomas changed sides in the final Senate vote as a result of Hill 's charges , but 11 others ( eight of them representing Southern states in which they depended heavily on black support ) joined with all but two of the Republicans to confirm him by a slim majority . |
| 3 | ‘ There are hundreds of them hooting all night , ’ protested Betty . |
| 4 | Three of them had serious face and hand burns and were transferred to the burns unit of Glasgow Royal Infirmary . |
| 5 | Only three of them secured enough votes to be assured of their seats . |
| 6 | Three of them use online services to a reasonable extent , while the other two make limited use of them . |
| 7 | Almost one in five of them said male nurses were seen as ‘ weak ’ . |
| 8 | The five of them eyed each other stiff-faced and stiff-necked , drank a glass of wine together with the earl to seal their new friendship , and parted in complete mutual understanding and distrust . |
| 9 | And of course I loved the town and although the station was about a mile from the town centre , people used to come from the town centre in their cars , they had lunch at our place er er at Cambridge , you see , and there , there were two waiters and one , one of them took part-time cellar work , you see , and er , they were two brothers and er their name 's |
| 10 | Er no , but one of them collected these ones . |
| 11 | One of them says statutory notifications must now be introduced . |
| 12 | But the lawyer said that earlier one of them told ten-year-old Christopher : ‘ It looks like we 'll not be seeing our children at Christmas but you 're going to have your daddy after all . ’ |
| 13 | One of them told New Scientist |
| 14 | Two men sat at a table near the counter , one of them pushing huge forkfuls of food into his mouth , the other sipping at a cup of tea . |
| 15 | The reason for the hypergastrinaemia in the four idiopathic DU patients is also unclear and it is of note that only one of them had antral gastritis . |
| 16 | Several new chain cutter and hollow mortising and boring machines were installed , one of them having automatic action . |
| 17 | One of them provides income-earning assets to families : sewing machines , for example . |
| 18 | The distinction you need to practise could also be between two sounds where both or one of them causes real difficulty in pronunciation as well as being contrastive . |
| 19 | … missions : Two more relief convoys leave Cleveland for Romania this weekend one of them carrying 4,000 pairs of shoes ! |
| 20 | Just two days later , at a party attended by a particularly ‘ old ’ ( and tarty ) flame of his , the expression on my face as I watched the two of them exchange meaningful glances would surely have revealed the same disgust and disdain that Diana displays whenever she encounters one of her husband 's confidantes . |
| 21 | Two of them wore white uniform . |
| 22 | There were three diabetic patients , in the seris , and two of them had severe sepsis after operation . |
| 23 | Silence then , the two of them facing each other . |
| 24 | Ward had also risen , the two of them facing each other . |
| 25 | It did not take long for the two of them to agree that cost-cutting and restructuring were required . |
| 26 | Lot number one one nine Lot number one one nine is the next to offer globular jars and there are two in the lot , we have one showing fifty pounds for the two of them thank fifty pounds ? |
| 27 | Meanwhile , a High Court judge warned of a serious problem because of a log-jam of refugee cases as he gave leave for two of them to seek judicial review of Home Office decisions to refuse them asylum . |
| 28 | After the return of right masculine rule from the tyranny of the Amazons , Artegall meets with Prince Arthur and the two of them accomplish various overthrowing of tyrannies . |
| 29 | Two of them bore long fruits like courgettes , though pink in colour and set with needles like a cactus . |
| 30 | The obsessive gardener hates his relations because two of them have criminal records . |