Example sentences of "of they [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of them failed to reach that desirable goal . |
| 2 | But in this sterner , older world , the iron entered into the children 's soul , and many of them had to learn that being alive ought simply to be enough , a gift that must be ultimately paid for . |
| 3 | Some of them had to learn this . |
| 4 | ‘ My lads did all that could be asked of them , especially as a couple of them had to work all night in order to get time off to play . |
| 5 | None of them seemed to set much store by where the Toraja themselves say they came from . |
| 6 | There are few places on the globe unmapped , but there are millions of people in the world who have never seen the sea , or mountains , or a desert , or a snow-covered landscape , and many of them want to experience such places because the unknown is one of the great pleasures of travel . |
| 7 | It is a major procedure with a small but not insignificant mortality rate and some patients experience severe and persistent side-effects , although many of them seem to regard these as preferable to being ‘ superobese ’ . |
| 8 | There was a silence after this during which both of them tried to integrate this information but could not . |
| 9 | This is all the more necessary because , although some facilitating devices such as information agreements may be made the subject of prohibitions , the majority of them appear to escape these . |
| 10 | Now some of them used to find that a bit irksome . |
| 11 | Neither of them appeared to represent any particular party , and the election was being fought entirely on personalities . |