Example sentences of "of them [coord] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the ruins of peoples which are still found here and there and which are no longer capable of a national existence , are absorbed by the larger nations and either become part of them or maintain themselves as ethnographic monuments without political significance . |
| 2 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
| 3 | She had seen nothing of them and heard nothing except their horn in the recesses of the forest , a joyous and at the same time a melancholy sound which filled her captors with unease . |
| 4 | The dreams were all in a mess on the top , so I got hold of them and put them underneath me to stop them blowing away ( not that there was any wind ) and hunted through the rest . |
| 5 | He placed a little white enamel cup before each of them and filled it with strong black tea . |
| 6 | The Spirit who inspired their writing is perfectly well capable of taking some part of them and writing it on our hearts so that it becomes an inescapable pointer to a particular course of action . |
| 7 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 8 | There are times when barbel are so preoccupied with whatever business they have at hand , whether it be feeding , spawning , or just browsing , you can stand on the river 's edge right over the top of them and watch them without them taking fright and scurrying off . |
| 9 | Then there was a heavy pause , like the moment a ball must feel between the time it 's thrown up and the time it starts to come down , and something picked up all three of them and slid them into a struggling heap . |
| 10 | Sometimes we got into a shoal of them and pulled them in as fast as we could handle the lines ; sometimes we failed to find any . |
| 11 | Then , leaning forward , she picked an olive out of the glass dish in front of them and held it between thumb and forefinger . |