Example sentences of "of [noun sg] they [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with a certain amount of bemusement they 've had to overcome several problems to meet their latest challenge . |
| 2 | Though Invergordon 's shares dipped sharply early on in the morning after the figures , by the close of play they had recovered to end only 1p down at 269p . |
| 3 | Only the other day a leader of the student movement in Prague said that the first letter of support they had received from abroad after baptising the revolution in their blood on November 17 was from him , with the signatures of four other Soviet Academicians . |
| 4 | Further evidence to suggest that events are important in depression according to their threatfulness rather than according to the amount of change they signify comes from a study by Tennant and Andrews ( 1978 ) . |
| 5 | Leaning against a recumbent Henry Moore , a group of English Sloanes , lanky people , all wearing old men 's panama hats regardless of sex , shared out the single bottle of champagne they had bought at the Duty Free and laughed loudly . |
| 6 | As he said it , he held her eyes and suddenly Ronni was remembering that glass of champagne they 'd shared at the party . |
| 7 | I mean the majority of them now it 's not even worth them stopping , and I mean , most of them are like in their eighties and not , er eighties and there 's like the amount of damage they 've done |
| 8 | They will be different in terms of the sort of interaction they expect to have with computer depending on whether they 're data entry people or management users and maybe some of our users are people in the street , our customers er who who will increasingly become users of systems themselves . |
| 9 | Er I think the panel have er admirably completed a difficult task in drawing together the , the statement of faith they have presented . |
| 10 | Of course they had to stop at the nearest tavern for Sir John to take refreshment and S over his sword play , step by step , blow by blow . |
| 11 | Er and of course they had to use these crocodiles er down the coast er where the Germans were holding out er at and Dunkirk you see . |
| 12 | Of course they had drawn blank . |
| 13 | It was a mixed development with very much the emphasis on Corporation staff at that time er and of course they had to house the , got house |
| 14 | Lowe had worked as a researcher for the Financial Times , Hayling had done his stint with the BBC , and of course they had dabbled in the Big Flame paper and other fringe publications . |
| 15 | A lot of times it 's economics that determines what people do in all their endeavours , and in the case of Hawaii tourism was the thing and so of course they had to play music for tourists . |
| 16 | Erm and then of course they had to haul up the floorboards and re re-lay a line for the phone |
| 17 | And of course they got knocked about a lot . |
| 18 | Which is why of course they 've decided on th the grading system that they have , that they want people to achieve perhaps a class one status wherever possible and maintain it . |
| 19 | erm , the adventure section was quite successful in a lot of respects they had quite a few people er attached to it , the scout group and the cub group , cub packs did n't have very many , but erm the adventure section had quite a few people , er and in fact we 've got people doing the tent stalls at the moment that are from a seventh mutant , which is , what it was and of course they 've disenfranchised if you like er but we 're looking , the district is looking to create a new group with Buckland |
| 20 | And of course they 've gone is n't them ? |
| 21 | They have many more management techniques , which we did n't have — which we 've given them — and of course they 've got new ideas coming along as well. , Pearce 's own progression within Esso was a series of the grasped opportunities he talks about enthusiastically . |
| 22 | And then of course they 've got this soldering iron type thing called the diathermy cautery device that seals up the blood vessels and this is being stabbed into her . |
| 23 | Of course they 've got the |
| 24 | And she said erm where they have their big discos in the universities er you know , about two thousand five hundred of them come round of course they 've got fire alarm systems there , then she said you get the underground so called Mafia , whatever you like to call them she said , they are chaps she said in their thirties , and forties , arrive in shiny big white and red Porsches this that and the other and deliberately , cos they 're club owners |
| 25 | and of course they 've got to be careful in case they kill the grass and around the outside is what |
| 26 | There 's also some murals on the walls , various artists did murals and of course they 've got this grant from for six thousand pound for a exhibition . |
| 27 | Try to get some er old door casings rip down from me you know , now , I was thinking of going to North Wales but I know what they 'd say cos it , the ones that I got from our Rob 's you know the they 're quite clean but of course they 've had nails in the , you know , the head like I made the cab some cabinets you know . |
| 28 | Which is a pity and then of course they started throwing bombs around and we , we were , we were evacuated |
| 29 | And so of course they started pulling his leg then see ? |
| 30 | no , they loose it so of course they have to go and buy another card . |