Example sentences of "of they [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I mean that there 's half of them go down the dock now , they do n't do anything .
2 And it 's this that inspired the pair of them to set up the Thomas Appeal .
3 The Babylonian Jews were loyal to the Seleucids ; 8,000 of them fought off an attack of marauding Ga ] atians , according to the Second Book of Maccabees ( 8.20 ) .
4 This could help to give substance to what is meant by the spiritual dimension , for both of them lived out the kind of character expressed in the middle column of Table 6.1 .
5 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 .
6 Beautiful women , dressed in anything from the flamboyantly obvious to the understatedly elegant , weaved in and out of the crowds , some of them hanging on the arms of men old enough to be their grandfathers .
7 Two of them came round a while ago and they said , ‘ Our pigeon 's on your roof , miss , can we go up your house and get it down through your loft ? ’
8 Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified .
9 Three girls came into the line of fire , each wearing a student nurse 's uniform , walking quickly , but gossiping as they went , and laughing , their heads constantly turning to whichever of them took up the conversation .
10 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 .
11 One of them fell over a coffee table and threw a whole trayful of bits and pieces on Carrie Donovan and Harry Pritchett .
12 One of them pulled out a revolver aiming it inches away from P C Ray Hall 's nose .
13 While other shoe makers were suffering from the recession DMs Northampton shoe factory was hiring more staff — there are now 2,500 of them turning out a pair of shoes every 4 seconds .
14 He was soon joined by his brother and the two of them set up a practice in the Army and Navy Mansions on Victoria Street .
15 Four or five of them broke down the door of the Admiral Benbow and ran inside .
16 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 .
17 Fifty yards off the fox ran into some hares and they went careering off in all directions , one of them dashing up a heather slope to cause an explosion of grouse .
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