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 . |