Example sentences of "[num] of they [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Carl sa I was speaking to Carl today and he said , well surely , you know the three of them have weighed that up ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At first they had sat directly opposite him , but as the train travelled through the subterranean tunnel one of them had moved three seats to his left . |
| 5 | If just one of them had sent one of their grandmothers , and I could come out of the sun , and if I could have a silenced chain-saw , then maybe it would be fair . |
| 6 | One of them had had white hair or , Matthew had remarked , it might have been a wig . |
| 7 | But if one of them had shown some of the you never , you 'd never get scenes like that . |
| 8 | Suppose one of them had used this knife onm me ? |
| 9 | I have five children and not much money and not one of them has gone wrong and they all treat me with great respect . |
| 10 | Not one of them has enjoyed internal political loyalty and they have therefore lacked the strength or authority to transact formal negotiations in which controversial concessions might have to be made . |
| 11 | Two of them had died young , one of Lewis 's aunts had married and gone to America , the other two had remained spinsters , living as many unmarried women in the country used to do , in tiny cottages in the middle of a village , busy in a mouse-like way about parochial matters , having no youth , earning nothing , buried alive . |
| 12 | As you know , the two of them have become good friends , and are going on a long holiday together . |
| 13 | Four of them had had adverse reactions and in one patient cereals had not yet been introduced to the diet . |