Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I resolved to remain alive in an unofficial capacity , which of course annoys them all immensely . |
| 2 | This translates into an average eighteen pounds reduction in council tax for a band E dwelling which could be passed on to council tax payers in their ninety four , ninety five bills or of course allows them more flexibility in their general financial planning . |
| 3 | She was a woman from an age quite different from Erika 's own ; separated by a gulf , a measureless chasm of experience distancing them each from the other as surely as though they were beings from two different planets . |
| 4 | It must be an awful lot of money to make them this worried . |
| 5 | What sort of relationships did they all have outside performing hours ? |
| 6 | Bangkok is well supplied with ‘ shooting galleries ’ where pushers go down lines of addicts giving them all a fix with the same needle . |
| 7 | Richard 's disregard for their cherished customs of inheritance threatened them all , directly or indirectly , and provided a cause to which all could rally in defence of the right order of their world . |
| 8 | During the Anglo-French war of 1294–8 , Edward I 's letters to his kinswomen Marie of Brabant , queen-mother of France , Jeanne of Navarre , queen of France , and Margaret of Anjou assured them that , although the kingdoms were in ‘ discord ’ , he had no quarrel whatever with them ( 12 August 1295 ) . |
| 9 | The gentlemen in Virginia were in no position to do this ; they had very little money to spend in a gentlemanly way and no particular experience of colonization to give them any other claims to respect and obedience , as nothing got done and about 60 of the 100 initial settlers died in 1607 . |
| 10 | Days later , Fernandez suspended the Queens school board that refused his curriculum , and ten days after that the board of education reinstated them all . |
| 11 | That so far the outlaws had left them alone and kept out of sight troubled them all , this was so unexpected that it increased their fears rather than diminished them . |
| 12 | The existence of monopoly denies them that opportunity , and this is manifest in the inevitable reduction in total surplus . |
| 13 | A long white strip of cloth linked them all from hand a hand as they made their way down through the sleet and the open snowy fields . |
| 14 | But before he could finish a clang of metal and a shattering crash of glass caused them all to spin round . |
| 15 | The same is likely to be true for South Eastern secretarial/office staff , and throws into question the chances of success of campaigns to recruit them such as recently initiated by the major Transport and General Workers Union ( TGWU ) ( see Financial Times , 5 and 6/12/86 ) . |
| 16 | It is indeed a case of ‘ the day of small things ’ and it is the doing of them with good-humoured patience and the appreciation of others doing them that makes the sum of these tiny parts such a very considerable one at the end of the day . |
| 17 | Many organic solvents interact with each other in this way , and it may be the combination of chemicals surrounding them that causes illness in chemical-sensitive patients . |