Example sentences of "of they [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While such figures can not , of course , be seen as precise indicators of opinion , the downward trend apparent in all of them does suggest that devotion to the Führer — or at least the readiness to declare such devotion in public — had fallen rapidly by the time of the Stalingrad débâcle . |
| 2 | Of the teachers we spoke to , two-fifths reported that they had rearranged their furniture , and well over nine-tenths of them had made some kind of change to their classrooms as a direct consequence of suggestions or recommendations made to them as part of the Primary Needs Programme . |
| 3 | The sentences of many of them had expired 17 years ago . |
| 4 | By 1811 only some rural parishes were without any provision , while most of them had registered some improvement over the seventeenth century . |
| 5 | At first they had sat directly opposite him , but as the train travelled through the subterranean tunnel one of them had moved three seats to his left . |
| 6 | Neither of them had breakfasted that morning . |
| 7 | A survey of Aberdeen University students conducted by Peter McKellar showed that about two thirds of them had experienced these sensations , which were slightly more often auditory sensations than visual ones . |
| 8 | At the end of that time , each one of them had experienced unpleasant symptoms ; some became hostile and argumentative ; some had panic attacks and nightmares ; all of them found their attention span had grown shorter and they were finding it more difficult to remember things . |
| 9 | 1910 is the year in which the Cubist painters , other than Picasso and Braque , came together as a conscious group , although many of them had known each other earlier . |
| 10 | More thoughtful than either of them had seemed last night . |
| 11 | Oh no of course ver very few of them had got any work . |
| 12 | A couple of them had produced flaming torches from nowhere and were brandishing them with all the zeal of a party of drunken Transylvanian peasants storming Castle Frankenstein during an electrical storm . |
| 13 | Some of them had abandoned front rooms and virtually none opened front windows . |
| 14 | Suppose one of them had used this knife onm me ? |
| 15 | Six weeks before and immediately after the closedown was assumed to be a more stressful time for the 100 men than one and two years later when 90 per cent of them had found alternative employment . |
| 16 | Four of them had had adverse reactions and in one patient cereals had not yet been introduced to the diet . |
| 17 | One of them had had white hair or , Matthew had remarked , it might have been a wig . |
| 18 | ‘ My lads did all that could be asked of them , especially as a couple of them had to work all night in order to get time off to play . |
| 19 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 20 | None of them seemed to set much store by where the Toraja themselves say they came from . |
| 21 | As it flowed , it incorporated into itself masses of loose debris , mud , rubble and boulders , some of them reported to weigh fifty tons . |
| 22 | More than 100 development groups throughout the world are working on the technology , many of them attempting to update old designs to work with modern engines . |
| 23 | There are few places on the globe unmapped , but there are millions of people in the world who have never seen the sea , or mountains , or a desert , or a snow-covered landscape , and many of them want to experience such places because the unknown is one of the great pleasures of travel . |
| 24 | All of them seem to have different ideas about what should be done to get Britain out of recession . |
| 25 | The distortion of scale which had appeared in the Cadaquès paintings is not encountered again in the following year , and while all subsequent paintings are understandably not as easily legible as this portrait , almost all of them do contain some kind of clue or stimulus which serves to identify the subject , and which renders it immediately recognizable to anyone familiar with Cubist iconography . |
| 26 | And a lot of them do waste that time . |
| 27 | There was a silence after this during which both of them tried to integrate this information but could not . |
| 28 | Some of them appeared to have police-type uniforms while others carried notebooks or cameras . |
| 29 | Some of them appeared to have police-type uniforms while others carried notebooks or cameras . |
| 30 | Many of them have done excellent work in the past . |