Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They were ‘ volunteers ’ who between them had vast experience of how ‘ Maranyl ’ was manufactured on our five extrusion systems at Billingham .
2 He explained that , since he wrote that advice , it was getting more difficult to arrange a DIY funeral because of the growing number of takeovers ; in fact , three companies between them had large parts of the southern half of the country sewn up .
3 It was conducted , too , in French since France was the country to which most of them owed intellectual allegiance .
4 Not all of them enjoyed full sovereignty nor were very united or coherent in structure .
5 Almost one in five of them said male nurses were seen as ‘ weak ’ .
6 A couple of them sported bruised faces , and one was limping .
7 Most of them became good Americans .
8 Some of them received high command in the mid-fifteenth century , and some introduced their own characteristics to the fighting of war .
9 Most of them had cartilaginous vertebrae , like modern toads .
10 Many of them had blue lights on top .
11 Three of them had serious face and hand burns and were transferred to the burns unit of Glasgow Royal Infirmary .
12 And all of them had various music jobs before meeting up .
13 There was , however , one issue on which both of them had similar views : President Sadat 's peace-seeking journey to Jerusalem in November 1977 and its sequel at Camp David the following year .
14 Most of them had similar extensions .
15 Some of them had crucial help from the Israeli secret service , Mossad ) Those army commanders who did not immediately his were not so lucky .
16 Twenty-five trunk lines went into Chicago and most of them had attendant freight and passenger depots .
17 The family drew together to help each other , and most of them had additional sources of comfort .
18 Too many of them had clear memories of the last war to relish another .
19 The reason for the hypergastrinaemia in the four idiopathic DU patients is also unclear and it is of note that only one of them had antral gastritis .
20 Prof Van Velzen 's team found earlier this year that of 34 victims of unexplained cot death , 70pc of them had underdeveloped kidneys .
21 Jessie wanted to catch all the some of them had big beds and some of them had little beds , Jessie , you 're not listening eh ?
22 Again , there was a high percentage of part-time farmers ( in Bavaria something like 48% ) but most of them had urban employment as opposed to rural off-farm employment , as found in the other countries .
23 Not even poverty , for though by the standards of the middle classes all of them had modest incomes — except in such a paradise of labour as Australia in the 1850s where newspaper compositors could earn up to £18 a week — by the standards of the poor there was a vast difference between the well-paid and more or less regularly employed skilled ‘ artisan ’ , who wore a copy of respectable middle-class costume on Sundays or even on the way to and from work , and the ragged starveling who hardly ever knew where his , still less his family 's , next meal was to come from .
24 I tried to help some of those that were hurt but some of them had dreadful injuries .
25 Jessie wanted to catch all the some of them had big beds and some of them had little beds , Jessie , you 're not listening eh ?
26 The great majority of mothers were not in paid work , hardly surprisingly since so many of them had large families of young children .
27 The claimants were nearly always women , and three out of four of them had dependent children .
28 There were three diabetic patients , in the seris , and two of them had severe sepsis after operation .
29 None of them had direct experience of retail tariff-making and they were to find most of their initiatives on tariffs blocked by the Area Board chairmen .
30 But most of them wore Western dress : polyester trousers , anoraks and sneakers .
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