Example sentences of "of them [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company participates in nearly a score of such ventures , some of them dating back to the 1930s . |
| 2 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 3 | All the ages of man and all the races of Islam seemed to be represented : mustachioed Arabs , dark-skinned Somalis , small South Indians in lungis , huge Delhi businessmen bulging out of their pyjamas , prodigiously bearded Afghans swathed in shawls like Old Testament prophets — all of them surging up through the Meena Bazaar towards the Jama Masjid steps . |
| 4 | They leaned close momentarily then began to come forward again , slowly , looking about them , the first of them pointing up at the ruined monastery . |
| 5 | No , the , the , the extension of them going up for the cup and all , that 's what it was . |
| 6 | There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor . |
| 7 | They were beings like Miach , a crowd of them walking down to the shore from the forest . |
| 8 | Oh , he had them locked antler to antler now , two proud stags with lowered heads and rolling eyes , gathering their sinews for the thrust that should send one of them backing out of the contest . |
| 9 | And somehow , he could n't imagine either of them coming around to the house for some beers and a pizza and a John Wayne movie on the video . |
| 10 | They do not fly at ordinary room temperatures and they crawl only slowly , so there will not be much danger of them crawling out of the container and escaping . |
| 11 | And the two of them shuffling in with the hoods of their duffel coats over their heads and their school scarves pulled over noses and mouths like a pair of monks doing the rounds during the Black Death . |