Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.

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1 as if the police , or anyone else , will think there must be something wrong with them for them to have got such letters in the first place . ’
2 Johnny Cooper thought it almost impossible that three men carrying only sixty small bombs between them had created such havoc and destruction .
3 In their assumption of systematically traceable content , either reflected or mediated , they have considerable common ground , and between them have produced much valuable work .
4 Absolutely now I mean i i it 's interesting for women because I suppose in Australia I was a Republican and here I suppose I thought I saw about two erm now for me to have used that word thirty years ago I would possibly have been locked in the garden shed and left without food and drink
5 Gardeners , some of whom had seen much of their life 's work destroyed before their very eyes , refused to be beaten by an aberration of nature .
6 This ‘ literary ’ slant to the drama 's content is an important contrast with all previous pioneers , most of whom had given little attention to content .
7 In Øster 's study no preputial adhesions were seen in 95 boys aged 17 , none of whom had undergone any operative procedure for separation of adhesions — strongly suggesting that adhesions resolve spontaneously without treatment .
8 Special Branch , which works closely with MI5 , has its own computer system which keeps records on many millions of people none of whom have committed any offence ( if they had they would be on the Police National Computer ) split into 27 different groups such as ‘ interesting ’ , ‘ controversial ’ and ‘ subversive ’ .
9 Of the teachers we spoke to , two-fifths reported that they had rearranged their furniture , and well over nine-tenths of them had made some kind of change to their classrooms as a direct consequence of suggestions or recommendations made to them as part of the Primary Needs Programme .
10 They sat together , in the small-sized chairs brought up by Balor , and ate their breakfasts and told one another was n't this the finest meal ever and would they all look at the roasting oxen , because it was a long time , well it was years , really , since any of them had seen such a sight .
11 By 1811 only some rural parishes were without any provision , while most of them had registered some improvement over the seventeenth century .
12 Neither of them had breakfasted that morning .
13 A survey of Aberdeen University students conducted by Peter McKellar showed that about two thirds of them had experienced these sensations , which were slightly more often auditory sensations than visual ones .
14 1910 is the year in which the Cubist painters , other than Picasso and Braque , came together as a conscious group , although many of them had known each other earlier .
15 Neither of them had expected this .
16 Oh no of course ver very few of them had got any work .
17 But if one of them had shown some of the you never , you 'd never get scenes like that .
18 Suppose one of them had used this knife onm me ?
19 Solihull teachers were strongly so , but it should be recalled that only a relatively small proportion of them had had any direct experience of the process .
20 Here the regionals started with the advantage of not being as bloated as the big banks in the first place , and most of them have stayed that way .
21 As the Party has grown and recruited more articulate and able activists , a number of the old ‘ war-horses ’ have been put out to grass and , quite naturally , some of them have resented this .
22 Some of them have spent more terms in schools than others — which must be borne in mind when looking at the position of an individual pupil — but all those factors even out in the local authorities .
23 And Carl sa I was speaking to Carl today and he said , well surely , you know the three of them have weighed that up ?
24 Incidentally , Michael Land reckons that there are nine basic principles for image-forming that eyes use , and that most of them have evolved many times independently .
25 provided all all of them have got that one in .
26 Yeah worth switching on anyway , quite a few of them have got these er carriages in ?
27 But the thing is that now , I mean now that most of them have got some sort of house , an' there 's food an' money around , they know they 're better off but , honest , they know they 've got nothin' as well .
28 So some of them have got both sides , some of them have got a mixture .
29 Well yeah and there 's a couple of factors , one is a good they may er er some of them have got more power , yeah ?
30 By that time my personal relations with him had cooled , so there was no question of my having seen any of the names .
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