Example sentences of "of they [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when the team presented three options to the review panel on April 22nd , it was no surprise that one of them looked like a truncated version of a familiar space station , Freedom — with laboratory modules attached to a girdered ‘ truss ’ that carries solar panels for generating power . |
| 2 | Two pints of your best , and have one yourself , ’ one of them said in a loud voice . |
| 3 | " Here mate , " one of them said in a puzzled voice , " You 're a customs officer , what the hell were you doing in there ? |
| 4 | Like the bats , the pterosaurs had membranous wings stretched between highly modified arms and ‘ hands ’ and the fore part of the legs ; unlike the bats some of them grew to an enormous size and the front support for the wing was provided by only one finger of the hand , grotesquely extended . |
| 5 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 6 | Bartlemas had an enormous private income , and the pair of them lived in a tall Victorian house in Islington , which was filled to the brim with play-bills , prints , prompt copies , figurines and other souvenirs of their two heroes . |
| 7 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 8 | It is overladen with tear-jerking moments , most of them centred on a big eyed calf that Crystal , roped in as mid- wife , delivers onscreen in the film 's only spot of blood and gore . |
| 9 | Most of them believed in an immaterial reality too . |
| 10 | One of them dropped into a formal curtsey , revealing both her cleavage and her undergarment , and he smiled grimly . |
| 11 | Most of them returned after a brief and long-awaited glimpse at the West . |
| 12 | In my own section , towards the middle of the cloakroom , I saw to my horror two lines of girls staring at me and giggling , and as I came near , one of them asked in a sarcastic voice where I came from . |
| 13 | Several of them went to an acting class run by Jeff Corey , where other aspirants included James Coburn . |
| 14 | The West Indian islands contain less than a dozen active volcanoes , all of them congregated in a small arc at the east of the chain , but one of these , Mt Pelee , was responsible for the most lethal eruption of this century . |
| 15 | Labourers were found in the docks , railways , factories and domestic spheres , many of them employed on a casual basis . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't you dare beat me up , you nasty nasty man , I 'm a policeman ! ’ one of them shrieked in a mocking falsetto . |
| 17 | In January 214 ( 31% ) of them voted for a private member 's bill based on it ( which has little chance of becoming law ) . |
| 18 | One of them shaped like a mobile telephone crashed into a high voltage power line cutting off 500 homes . |
| 19 | Most of them moved towards a similar view of the pacifist tendencies of modern capitalism to that expounded by Norman Angell . |
| 20 | Reports are coming in , some of them confirmed by an independent observer , of large-scale destruction in Bosnia , not only of mosques and monuments ( see The Art Newspaper No. 19 , June 1992 , p.1 ) but also of places of learning , together with the books , archives and manuscripts contained therein . |
| 21 | ‘ A Goddamn ! ’ one of them replied in a thick , Scottish accent . |
| 22 | Enter Karl , late , running , dressed in a loosely cut black cotton suit with white embroidered lapels , a black shirt and an embroidered tie , all of them bought on a recent trip to Japan . |
| 23 | Each of them ended in a shiny black shoe . |
| 24 | The Templars were crushed but some of them remained as a secret coven and I have crossed swords with them over the years . |