Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have here a copy of the committee which was formed that night , and also a copy of the minutes , I 'll give each Councillor one , and then they can read it at their leisure , instead of me taking up the whole meeting . |
| 2 | One of them got out the ugliest looking knife that I have seen to cut a piece of string or something on his bicycle . |
| 3 | I mean that there 's half of them go down the dock now , they do n't do anything . |
| 4 | And it 's this that inspired the pair of them to set up the Thomas Appeal . |
| 5 | I spent a long time diving frantically after them , jamming the sheet at a bunch only to see half of them streaking out the other end , and I might have gone on indefinitely had I not felt a gentle touch on my arm . |
| 6 | The Babylonian Jews were loyal to the Seleucids ; 8,000 of them fought off an attack of marauding Ga ] atians , according to the Second Book of Maccabees ( 8.20 ) . |
| 7 | This could help to give substance to what is meant by the spiritual dimension , for both of them lived out the kind of character expressed in the middle column of Table 6.1 . |
| 8 | I stood transfixed as two of them shot down the Glacier des Grands Montets carving beautiful turns all the way down beneath the north face of the Drus . |
| 9 | Beautiful women , dressed in anything from the flamboyantly obvious to the understatedly elegant , weaved in and out of the crowds , some of them hanging on the arms of men old enough to be their grandfathers . |
| 10 | Two of them came round a while ago and they said , ‘ Our pigeon 's on your roof , miss , can we go up your house and get it down through your loft ? ’ |
| 11 | A ten-minute soak worked wonders on Merrill 's jaded sense of well-being , and when she went down she found the three of them seated around a huge log fire . |
| 12 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 13 | Three girls came into the line of fire , each wearing a student nurse 's uniform , walking quickly , but gossiping as they went , and laughing , their heads constantly turning to whichever of them took up the conversation . |
| 14 | They were jumping up and putting their paws up so they I went up back upstairs and they sk tried to skid up but they were going so quickly that one of them went down the step again . |
| 15 | One of them fell over a coffee table and threw a whole trayful of bits and pieces on Carrie Donovan and Harry Pritchett . |
| 16 | One of them pulled out a revolver aiming it inches away from P C Ray Hall 's nose . |
| 17 | While other shoe makers were suffering from the recession DMs Northampton shoe factory was hiring more staff — there are now 2,500 of them turning out a pair of shoes every 4 seconds . |
| 18 | Come on , come on , he thought , and pictured the three of them plummeting down the last thirty feet into the basement . |
| 19 | The five of them scrambled up the narrow carpeted stairway . |
| 20 | He was soon joined by his brother and the two of them set up a practice in the Army and Navy Mansions on Victoria Street . |
| 21 | Four or five of them broke down the door of the Admiral Benbow and ran inside . |
| 22 | Although Goodman and Peckinpah are credited with the screenplay , all three of them hammered out a final script . |
| 23 | One of them switched on the light , her finger tips painted with a silvery pearl , and the other switched it off with an animal claw . |
| 24 | One of them picked up the rolled newspaper which Clasper had flung into the crowd . |
| 25 | Fifty yards off the fox ran into some hares and they went careering off in all directions , one of them dashing up a heather slope to cause an explosion of grouse . |
| 26 | When filling small cracks , I 've found that I get a smooth finish , which requires little or no sanding , of I roll over the crack with a paint roller a few times , while the filler is still damp . , . |
| 27 | The two of you go back a long way . ’ |
| 28 | Our link up with adidas has certainly provided a boost to membership , with many of you taking up the option to join and receive a free headband or wristband for their trouble . |
| 29 | ‘ It was clever of you to work out the connection with Jim Lancaster , ma'am . ’ |
| 30 | There may be lots of others which do very similar things , but I think this is a question of you working out the criteria for your placement that you want , you know , |