Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The five of them filed into a cab and were decanted outside the Hospitality Inn . |
| 2 | So when the team presented three options to the review panel on April 22nd , it was no surprise that one of them looked like a truncated version of a familiar space station , Freedom — with laboratory modules attached to a girdered ‘ truss ’ that carries solar panels for generating power . |
| 3 | When I think back it seems to me they were all three of them looking for a groove to settle in — tramlines that would take them somewhere without them having to think where they were going . ’ |
| 4 | Just last week a survey by Brook Advisory Centres revealed an estimated 84,000 15 year old girls are sexually active , yet just 18,000 of them go to a family planning clinic . |
| 5 | In 1954 , for example , one of them called for a majority of Africans to be on the unofficial , i.e. representative , benches of the legislative council within three years and for self-government within twenty to twenty-five years . |
| 6 | if any of them relate to a procedure we take it at the same time so that we do n't have to do it again , or not ? |
| 7 | There will eventually be 10 zones in all , each of them designated in an area of particularly high unemployment . |
| 8 | " Here mate , " one of them said in a puzzled voice , " You 're a customs officer , what the hell were you doing in there ? |
| 9 | Two pints of your best , and have one yourself , ’ one of them said in a loud voice . |
| 10 | Watching one of them wobble through a developpe in glazed desperation or another sickle his foot in an over-extended arabesque , you feel how cruelly Hall 's ambitions tax his company . |
| 11 | Most of them arose as a result of an all-Russian phenomenon in 1922 — the lack of co-ordination and exchange of information between the centre and the localities , together with nonchalant neglect of provincial problems so long as they did not affect central political issues . |
| 12 | The Old Red Sandstone of Scotland was particularly rich in the remains of strange fish , many of them covered with a kind of bony armour-plating . |
| 13 | Like the bats , the pterosaurs had membranous wings stretched between highly modified arms and ‘ hands ’ and the fore part of the legs ; unlike the bats some of them grew to an enormous size and the front support for the wing was provided by only one finger of the hand , grotesquely extended . |
| 14 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 15 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 16 | Bartlemas had an enormous private income , and the pair of them lived in a tall Victorian house in Islington , which was filled to the brim with play-bills , prints , prompt copies , figurines and other souvenirs of their two heroes . |
| 17 | Afterwards , I eyed the other pedestrians in Soho Square with more than usual paranoia , ready for any one of them to turn into a crack-crazed mugger . |
| 18 | The two of them dated for a while , but it did n't work out . |
| 19 | In the 138-member Chamber of Citizens ( 108 seats for Serbian representatives , half of them elected on a majority system by constituencies and half on a proportional system by party lists , plus 30 for Montenegrin representatives , six by constituency and 24 proportionally ) the Socialist Party of Serbia ( SPS ) gained 73 seats ; Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro 23 ; Serbian Radical Party ( SRS ) 33 ; League of Communists-Movement for Yugoslavia two ; Democratic Community of Vojvodina Magyars ( DZVM ) two ; independents three ; two seats for Serbia went to a second round of voting , held on June 14 ( together with two second-round polls for the republican assembly ) . |
| 20 | Stranded in the middle of a threatening black neighbourhood , he is rescued by a tow-truck driver , Danny Glover , and the two of them embark on a tentative , rather sweet black-white buddy relationship . |
| 21 | One of them landed in a field next to Bruce Arkell 's house , and he 's still finding pieces of wreckage . |
| 22 | The Bill also imposes an automatic one-year driving ban , but I can not help wondering how many young people will be deterred by that — particularly as many of them drive without a licence anyway . |
| 23 | Vases in the Marine Style , including rhytons , bridge-spouted jugs and three-handled amphoras , are decorated with triton shells , argonauts , octopuses , starfish , rocks and seaweed — all of them treated in a free and fluid way . |
| 24 | The dreams contained a series of fighting manoeuvres , all of them based on a complete yielding to attack . |
| 25 | It is overladen with tear-jerking moments , most of them centred on a big eyed calf that Crystal , roped in as mid- wife , delivers onscreen in the film 's only spot of blood and gore . |
| 26 | Most of them believed in an immaterial reality too . |
| 27 | Faced with that band of silent men , the two riders ' headlong rush veered and slowed , and one of them dropped to a loiter . |
| 28 | One of them dropped into a formal curtsey , revealing both her cleavage and her undergarment , and he smiled grimly . |
| 29 | Most of them returned after a brief and long-awaited glimpse at the West . |
| 30 | Three elements refer to the female presence , all of them dealing with an essential lack . |