Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conference finished with a debate on the economy , pledging full support to the sacked Timex workers from Dundee and the workers from Rolls Royce at Hillington , the Leyland Daf Albion plant , the Gray Dunn factory , and Rosyth dockyard all of whom had sent delegations to Inverness . |
| 2 | The total number of civilian casualties was seventy-seven , most of whom had suffered bruises or lacerations to the head . |
| 3 | To mark the opening , Seve played a hole with selected partners , many of whom had donated sums of money to charity for the privilege . |
| 4 | He congratulated the youngsters , all of whom had won prizes in the 1992 Young Environmentalist of the Year Competition . |
| 5 | Merrell Down Pharmaceuticals , have relied largely on the testimony of expert witnesses , some of whom have reached conclusions by analogy rather than direct experiment . |
| 6 | Lawyers for the haemophiliacs , 600 of whom have issued writs , argue that the Government was negligent in not becoming self-sufficient in blood products sooner and in not heat-treating earlier to kill the virus . |
| 7 | He had had three treasurers of England already , good men every one , and two treasurers of his own household , and none of them had made ends meet yet . |
| 8 | Most of them had become marraines to one or more soldiers , according them benefits ranging merely from encouraging letters to parcels of food and woollies to the highest a woman can offer a man . |
| 9 | If the notes of elderly patients alleged to have died from asthma are examined it seems that most of them had fixed airways obstruction , with little evidence of having had asthma , and that most died of something else . |
| 10 | Some of them had plaited scraps of cloth in their long black hair and all wore beads around their necks . |
| 11 | While many of them had developed techniques for checking understanding when teaching ‘ traditional ’ FE students , some of which were also useful when working with bilingual students , few of them had any professional training in the part that language plays in classroom learning . |
| 12 | In three days , the gimcrack furniture had become familiar and the two of them had developed habits of eating and passing time that was consoling , like the lives of spies in a loft . |
| 13 | Scientific evidence that two of them had handled explosives had been discredited after it was shown that the constituents of soap could give the same positive results in the main test used to detect traces of explosive in 1974 . |
| 14 | Most of them had shingled awnings borne on prominent brackets projecting over their simple wooden platforms . |
| 15 | We would teach the electronics necessary to devise the tests and how it worked and things like that , and sure enough by the end of the time some of them had built devices , well all sorts of devices . |
| 16 | It was a long morning , but after many hours and a lot of giggling and parading , the three of them had chosen dresses . |
| 17 | Many of them had spent weeks getting there on a dangerous journey from their homes in Sarajevo . |
| 18 | Most of them had pierced openings for part or the whole of the light , either left open or filled with glass ( 180 and 181 ) . |
| 19 | Launching a sugar plantation took a great deal of capital and the planters were always short of money ; many of them had bought estates at the high land prices of the boom , and most of them felt they owed it to themselves to live in a gentlemanly way that ignored debts . |
| 20 | All of them had pursued careers and then , thankfully , relinquished them . |
| 21 | If a few more of them had had children , legitimate or otherwise , they would n't look like a lot of dried-up old lemons . |
| 22 | Some of them had taken drugs , but on the whole this was regarded as both old-fashioned and working-class , so swiftly do perceptions and attitudes change . |
| 23 | Other sugar substitutes like saccharin , cyclamate and aspartame , are all targetted at dieters , combining a sweet taste with no calories ( although each one of them has faced questions concerning safety ) . |
| 24 | The idea of literary sensibility would probably be dismissed by the culturalists of the Left as a piece of mystification , and certainly few of them have shown signs of possessing it , on either side of the Atlantic . |
| 25 | Yeah but some of them have had sats obviously the ones lower down . |
| 26 | When she goes in tomorrow night and all three of them have got honours and she never . |
| 27 | But some of them have got patterns to them and you work them out . |
| 28 | Certainly er , the er in fact , some of them have got titles at the front so |
| 29 | Some of them have got arms going off all over the place . |
| 30 | I mean some of them have got spaces and some of them have n't . |