Example sentences of "of [pers pn] were [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were dying to see something go wrong , you know , they were good old sorts , some of them were odd ones , but a good lot . |
| 2 | Two-thirds of them were Roman Catholics . |
| 3 | Most of them were above Ace and Defries , fluttering round the diagonal girder along which Daak was trying to climb . |
| 4 | A third of the authors were women , while in terms of their childhood backgrounds , 25 of them were upper class , 21 upper-middle class , 15 lower-middle class , and 84 working class . |
| 5 | Some of them were strategic harbours , coaling stations or communications centres , like Gibraltar , Malta and Aden . |
| 6 | Many of them were sweat-shop workers , for example , while the men in their families might have white collar jobs or be shopkeepers . |
| 7 | Two of them were real stunners John Davies rocketing out of a rolling maul 20 metres from the line to score , and then Stuart Davies crossing a Llewellyn line-out take 15 metres out after it had been worked to the line . |
| 8 | As the advancing figures crossed the highway towards them , it became evident that four of them were unwilling members of the group . |
| 9 | ‘ None of them were unwilling participants and my client did not make a handsome profit . ’ |
| 10 | The figure that I have is about 800 submissions , but most of them were tear-out strips from newspapers . |
| 11 | Overall , little more than half of them were serious candidates put up by Fianna Fail , Fine Gael , Labour and the Progressive Democrats , and on the ballot paper they were not listed for convenience of identification in party groups ; the other candidates were outsiders . |
| 12 | Some of them were disputable cases , such as the British colonies which were really independent nations of European stock — an illustration that Europe 's world supremacy had many different forms and many different agents . |
| 13 | None of them were paramilitary officers . |
| 14 | Both of them were easy victims : where she was slow and tongue-tied , he was short and physically weedy . |
| 15 | That all of them were good citizens and honourable men will be readily conceded from a consideration of the very constitution of the Society and from a perusal of the Bye-Laws , by which the Society is governed and there is reason to believe that they were also practitioners of the healing art . |
| 16 | Most of them were young horsemen on the East Anglian farms and a braided belt was almost part of the dress . |
| 17 | Jack Foley 's eyes rarely left Nan 's face , but she seemed to be unaware of this and talked as if all three of them were equal partners in the conversation . |
| 18 | Yeah , but they did just on Friday night that they were some of them were four years old ! |
| 19 | Some of them were floating milk calculi , others tiny pedunculated tumours , injuries to the teat lining , all sorts of things . |
| 20 | Most of them were senior members of the Institute and Hall could well have been surprised to find himself confronted with a group of men bound together by a considerable degree of common purpose and understanding . |
| 21 | Some of them were mature students studying medicine , dentistry , law , engineering . |
| 22 | As a general rule they appeared to be slowish , considering most of them were large animals , but there seems to be a considerable variation between species of greatly differing body sizes . |
| 23 | Most of them were growing food or timber in 1880 , although not all of them were as productive as they were later to become . |
| 24 | Many of them were local tradesmen who supplemented their living by acting as petty rural landlords . |
| 25 | Well then of course , I 've told you about having these trials up and down , and then , out of the people I 've dealt with mostly of them were local criminals , I should think nearly ninety percent of crime in Ipswich was committed by local people . |
| 26 | That seemed to me to be a specific and different group , although many of them were older women , but that is a different point . |
| 27 | At this time most of them were minor landowners , but they were of gentle descent , and although John of Faircross , son and heir of the ironmaster , styled himself yeoman all his life , his descendants eventually moved up into the gentry . |
| 28 | First , two-thirds of them were manual workers . |
| 29 | At least two of them were big men in every sense of the word . |
| 30 | All of them were big men who had drawn lots for the honour of the occasion , and carefully they lifted Artai and carried him up the short flight of steps to the summit of the plinth . |