Example sentences of "of they [vb past] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | By 1811 only some rural parishes were without any provision , while most of them had registered some improvement over the seventeenth century . |
| 3 | Neither of them had breakfasted that morning . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Oh no of course ver very few of them had got any work . |
| 6 | Suppose one of them had used this knife onm me ? |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 9 | None of them seemed to set much store by where the Toraja themselves say they came from . |
| 10 | There was a silence after this during which both of them tried to integrate this information but could not . |