Example sentences of "of they [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sentences of many of them had expired 17 years ago . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Some of them had abandoned front rooms and virtually none opened front windows . |
| 7 | Four of them had had adverse reactions and in one patient cereals had not yet been introduced to the diet . |
| 8 | As it flowed , it incorporated into itself masses of loose debris , mud , rubble and boulders , some of them reported to weigh fifty tons . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | All of them seem to have different ideas about what should be done to get Britain out of recession . |
| 12 | Some of them appeared to have police-type uniforms while others carried notebooks or cameras . |
| 13 | Some of them appeared to have police-type uniforms while others carried notebooks or cameras . |
| 14 | As you know , the two of them have become good friends , and are going on a long holiday together . |
| 15 | Nobody will deny that these are complex issues , and that the difficulties surrounding some of them have caused earlier efforts to bring about reform to founder . |
| 16 | This alteration was observed in the patient 's mother and maternal grandmother ( lanes 5 and 1 , respectively ) , who are obligate carriers as both of them have had affected sons . |
| 17 | By the same token , I can not help wondering what will be the result of a survey among half the 2,500 members of the British Psychological Society to establish how many of them have had sexual relations with their clients . |
| 18 | Some of them have posited underlying mechanisms of language change to account for this ; some have been more interested in relating it to social realities , treating language as a sort of cultural key rather than as a self-contained system with its own particular dynamic ; others have seen it as their main task to suggest linguistic reforms that will modify or eliminate offensive usages . |
| 19 | Some of them have spent more terms in schools than others — which must be borne in mind when looking at the position of an individual pupil — but all those factors even out in the local authorities . |
| 20 | Incidentally , Michael Land reckons that there are nine basic principles for image-forming that eyes use , and that most of them have evolved many times independently . |
| 21 | So some of them have got both sides , some of them have got a mixture . |