Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As o through some of the possible problems , check back to see which of them apply to the slack parts of your own writing . |
| 2 | The two of them looked towards the little wooden table outside the sick bay , where a bottle labelled ‘ Dr MacLaren 's Stomach and Bowel Mixture ’ stood , together with a large spoon . |
| 3 | The three of them looked at the dark-dressed figure of their brother , his head back , as he stared at the huge oil painting of highland cattle hanging on the broad stone wall of the fireplace , and he answered , ‘ I do n't know , Reggie . |
| 4 | So when the team presented three options to the review panel on April 22nd , it was no surprise that one of them looked like a truncated version of a familiar space station , Freedom — with laboratory modules attached to a girdered ‘ truss ’ that carries solar panels for generating power . |
| 5 | but er , a lot of them got on the twelve six , you goes the twelve thirty one any way we waved to her when she got on it the coach you see was full at Bart Green , you got , at Redditch |
| 6 | One of them parked across the narrow track leading away from the building ; it acted as a barrier . |
| 7 | And the contact turned into an embrace without either of them looking at the other or talking , they just put their arms around each other . |
| 8 | Both of them listened to the raised voices . |
| 9 | Russian writers actually lived simultaneously in the two worlds — the ancient communalism of the peasantry , which so many of them knew from the long summers on their seignorial estates , and the world of the westernised and much-travelled intellectual . |
| 10 | Most of them are opportunists , most of them come from the local area they 'll know the housing estates and whatever happens . |
| 11 | The point is — and our survey reveals it — that such an amount does deter some youngsters from participating in tournaments and again with respect , I would guess that few of them come from the lovely part of the country from where you write . |
| 12 | Western liberals and the Left once again found their credulity stretched in defence of the one state which most of them saw as the only bulwark against Nazi Germany . |
| 13 | Charles 's charters include 19 grants ( 15 of them dating from the second half of the reign ) of rights over markets , often specified as weekly markets rather than annual fairs . |
| 14 | Begonias are particular favourites and a gaggle of them gather on the paved area near the front door resplendent in pink , scarlet and yellow . |
| 15 | Erm all that sort of leads me back to where I started from , our perception of this survey is that it 's encouraging in the sense that it suggests that the recovery in the economy is erm widening and deepening if you like , it 's widening in the sense that it 's spreading to all the mainland regions of the U K and it 's deepening in the sense that erm firstly , although there are regional variations within this , it 's clearly not purely an export story and it 's not purely a domestic story , it 's a mixture of the two which gives us some reassurance erm it 's also deepening in the sense that there 's no evidence from the survey of anything which is likely to trip up the recovery in the short term , and remember that most of these er questions relate to the next four months , not all of them , but mo most of them relate to the next four months so one does n't want to extrapolate too far forward but nevertheless if you look at erm er most obviously sort of the the crisis and the inflation questions , if you look at er |
| 16 | Two pints of your best , and have one yourself , ’ one of them said in a loud voice . |
| 17 | " Here mate , " one of them said in a puzzled voice , " You 're a customs officer , what the hell were you doing in there ? |
| 18 | Like the bats , the pterosaurs had membranous wings stretched between highly modified arms and ‘ hands ’ and the fore part of the legs ; unlike the bats some of them grew to an enormous size and the front support for the wing was provided by only one finger of the hand , grotesquely extended . |
| 19 | The staff were effectively divided into two tiers , with a third of them trained into the advice-giving role of financial consultants while the remainder , ‘ customer services representatives ’ , resumed the agent role of collecting premiums and other basic services . |
| 20 | I imagine that the brunt of this will be borne by younger voters , many of them voting for the first time , who possibly do not realise that in addition to voting they must also pay poll tax . |
| 21 | Recently we had the sorry spectacle of some of them voting against the progressive EC Social Chapter which is designed to improve the lot of the employee . |
| 22 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 23 | Bartlemas had an enormous private income , and the pair of them lived in a tall Victorian house in Islington , which was filled to the brim with play-bills , prints , prompt copies , figurines and other souvenirs of their two heroes . |
| 24 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 25 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
| 26 | Afterwards , I eyed the other pedestrians in Soho Square with more than usual paranoia , ready for any one of them to turn into a crack-crazed mugger . |
| 27 | Also a hoard of 327 small coins was carefully sieved from the ash , most of them dated to the mid fourth century . |
| 28 | Latterly they looked increasingly obsolete when compared with the modern cars operated by Blackpool , and indeed most of them dated from the early years of the Century . |
| 29 | After the Beatles lost interest in him , the Maharishi made only occasional appearances in the headlines , most of them connected with the large sums of money his organisation was spending . |
| 30 | It was a strange conversation , sleepily hostile , with both of them drained by the extravagant expenditure of passion that had gone before . |