Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the past hour has announced that a review is being launched into the future of three pits in Yorkshire with the intention of closing them all down . |
| 2 | It appeared that Josh Cohen had no intention of giving them any trouble — just as Hardy had predicted . |
| 3 | She tried to calculate the effect of telling them all . |
| 4 | So if you want to just sort of remember them all , as a table we 've got sort of say acid plus metal and see what happens see what 's given off , well we get a salt a lot of the time do n't we and we |
| 5 | Any chance of buying them all a pair of slippers each ? |
| 6 | But if you saw their scorching live performance of Leave Them All Behind on Top of the Pops a few weeks ago then there was little else here to be surprised at . |
| 7 | I do n't stand a hope in hell of answering them all but I 'm going to try my damnedest , and to that end have missed out on most of the company parties and outings . |
| 8 | Every such case demands serious consideration , and the burden of considering them all must be substantial . |
| 9 | You may yet find a way of getting them both . |
| 10 | If the adventurers are not very knowledgeable about Constant Drachenfels , this is a novel way of feeding them some more information . |
| 11 | He had no way of carrying them all off , but two of the volumes were dated to cover the period of the insulin project as Diane had described it . |
| 12 | Getting children talking about texts in groups after reading them is one way of giving them this power with texts . |
| 13 | Later still he may train himself to eradicate the desire or aversion itself , releasing himself from one causally necessary condition of facing facts , so that the formula is no longer directly applicable ; but that will be in the service of other ends , and unless he can discover some new way of validating them these too will be spontaneous goals selected from the rest by thinking within the frame of the same formula . |
| 14 | I was very pleased , naturally , but the task of answering them all , which I was determined to do , was daunting , to say the least . |