Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of them were wearing navy-blue men 's overcoats that must have been the crew 's , holding the ends carefully to save them from trailing on the stairs . |
| 2 | Three of them were sacked last month , leaving Mark Franklin and Tony Dorie as hosts . |
| 3 | On the first night , most of them were watching Bionic Showdown : The Bionic Woman Meets the Six-Million Dollar Man on a rival channel . |
| 4 | Two hundred people were milling about the room ; 20 or 30 of them were hugging each other in greeting . |
| 5 | However , although the large charitable institutions of the later nineteenth century continued , there are signs that many of them were finding increasing difficulty in raising funds and few significant new charities appear to have been founded . |
| 6 | Cycling , like walking , is one of the best ways of seeing and enjoying the countryside , and mountain bikes have proved to be the latest and most popular method of ‘ green ’ transport : over 1 million of them were sold last year . |
| 7 | The two of them were crouched either side of a mass of scrawled diagrams in the dirt . |
| 8 | Both of them were discharged two years later . |
| 9 | With the parents we interviewed erm not only did all of them see their own role as being helpers and supporters of their children as being a very important one , but a very very large number of them were doing extra teaching at home or getting even paid tutors in to help with their children . |
| 10 | And a short while before that , while one of them was getting some tools or something from the van , a car drove past quite slowly as if the driver was looking for somewhere . |
| 11 | Indeed erm I can say this now er that at that time , unknown to the top management of I was buying large quantities of leather from my old firm it into the town , right past the front door of my old offices which were now the hea the local headquarters of our and selling them , literally , within sight of the building that used to be the place where I operated from on their behalf . |
| 12 | Well if the people at the back of her were having terrible row ah I I ha I hated it , it was horrible . |
| 13 | Every policeman was given a pint mug and on night duty we were , have n't , we , each of us was given one pint of coffee . |
| 14 | All of us were checking new bands out the whole time . |