Example sentences of "of them on [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 You could admire them from a safe distance , but you would n't want to run into one of them on a dark night at the crossroads .
2 There were more double doors at the end and in front of them on a tubular chair sat a uniformed constable reading the Sunday Express .
3 In the United Kingdom in 1988 , there were 1298 publicly maintained nursery schools catering for some 98,000 children , 82% of them on a part-time basis .
4 Of importance here is the fact that 14 interviewees ( 23 per cent ) were regular users of another opioid , principally Diconal , eight of them on a daily basis .
5 Another reason for our inability to give accurate figures is due to the prevalence of several other types of population movement , some of them on a huge scale , although extended over a longer period .
6 provide an opportunity for the debriefing of students , discussing both the work supervisor 's and tutor 's assessment of them on an individual basis .
7 But I 've seen a few of them on the slippery slope — the Shiny Set , the stars , the Washington
8 I can hear the two of them on the narrow stair outside , Summerchild placing his feet with ostentatious care on each step , bending his head rather further than is strictly necessary under the low ceiling , while Serafin demonstrates his effortless familiarity with such picturesque difficulties .
9 There was one of them on the other side of the street .
10 There have been before the present application which was approved , there have been applications refused because the Oxford City Planning Committee were concerned particularly about er access and parking arrangements , and the effects of the extensions er on the front of the building , er very close to Sandy Lane , by the impact of those buildings in particular on residential amenity , on the houses and the occupants of them on the other side of Sandy Lane .
11 The Vodafone Ltd arm of Vodafone Group Plc says gross new connections for its British cellular telephone network for the first quarter of 1993 totalled 92,775 ; net new connections totalled 43,911 , and at the end of the quarter , Vodafone had more than 838,000 subscribers connected to its cellular network , 85,000 of them on the new LowCall tariff that it launched in October .
12 He bombarded Burghley with schemes for exploiting Newfoundland in 1585 and 1586 , interestingly proposing the financing of one of them on the tontine principle , but they involved impractical proposals , as the international fishery could not be controlled by any one country except at vast expense .
13 Markby nodded towards the line of people ahead of them on the flagged pathway to the church door .
14 And if you ever came up with eight of them on the one coupon , you could also mark X in the box for no publicity as you made plans to spend , spend , spend .
15 These shepherds live wild , most of them on the same mountain just outside Florence , in abandoned houses which often have no light or running water .
16 She lay on her back on the grass within the avenue made by the great standing stones , between the ninth and tenth of them on the northern side .
17 It was strange , his feeling of contentment , sitting here in this garden , empty coffee cups in front of them on the white table .
18 Nearby is Villa Taranto , famous for having over 20,000 plants and trees on display , many of them on the endangered list .
19 He had been retired since 1979 after completing 42 years ' service — 12 of them on the main board .
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