Example sentences of "of they [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 2 | It is natural to ask … why it is that countries have Constitutions , why most of them make the Constitution superior to the ordinary law , and , further , why Britain , at any rate , has no Constitution , in this sense , at all . |
| 3 | ‘ Neither of them fits the picture of a proper mother . ’ |
| 4 | Darci Alves confessed to sole responsibility , in what was seen as an attempt to get his father acquitted , but a key prosecution witness , Genesio Ferreira da Silva , 15 , a former employee and relative of the Alves family , stated that he had overheard both of them plotting the murder and that they had celebrated its successful execution with a barbecue . |
| 5 | All of them know the rules . |
| 6 | But Katherine also realized that the longer ti took , the more chance there was of them leaving the country . |
| 7 | Neither of them understood the words but the music represented all that was fair and just . |
| 8 | It spread its wings again , and the heavy dark beating of them filled the air . |
| 9 | This was the traditional mooring place for dahabeeyahs and in the old days , before Mr Cook had come with his steamers , there would have been over two hundred of them nudging the bank . |
| 10 | Of these , half had already been working alone the lines advocated , and although some of them enjoyed the reassurance of seeing classroom practice like their own being commended to others , several expressed the view that such an experience did not merit time away from their classes . |
| 11 | Alastair and Flora came quite often and the four of them enjoyed the luxury of being totally at ease . |
| 12 | He was , it appears , neither rapacious nor peremptory , no ‘ for kicks ’ , no ‘ wham bam , thank you , mam ! ’ — he tried to make sure both of them enjoyed the time ; and he was fun . |
| 13 | Had any of them crossed the road on their own . |
| 14 | In the case of credit , it has been suggested that even if barely one in three consumers is aware of credit costs , and even if only a few of them use the information to shop around actively , lenders might compete with lower rates as a result . |
| 15 | None of them were ready to die , but all of them knew the odds stacked against them . |
| 16 | Both of them knew the layout of the house , and they had planned their movements in exhaustive detail . |
| 17 | He disentangled himself from Madra before dawn to share his watch with Bicker , and the two of them saw the sun come up . |
| 18 | one of them saw the body and passed out cold . ’ |
| 19 | But at least none of them saw the light of print — until today 's souvenir edition . |
| 20 | The doors were flung open as the occupants climbed out , one of them dragging the girl behind him . |
| 21 | One of them involves the observation of events as they actually occur , and the other involves experimentation which causes events to take place . |
| 22 | Today about 650 of them graze the sand tips and there are also about 40 South Devon ewes . |
| 23 | Admittedly , Popper and Habermas may seem to be strange bedfellows ; for they have entered the lists against each other precisely over their views on knowledge and reason , both of them seeing the other as an unwitting ideologue . |
| 24 | In front of them rode the moon , silver-skirted , in a flurry of dark-blue clouds . |
| 25 | Iris 's proteges had consumed their coffee and nut biscuits and departed , leaving the two of them to put the sitting-room to rights . |
| 26 | And this difference between them and such initially sympathetic Englishmen as Hewlett and Newbolt went very deep ; for ultimately it meant that , when the question arose whether the artist 's first responsibility was to his art ( his trade ) or to his society , Pound and Lewis and Ford would opt for the first alternative , Hewlett and Newbolt for the second — as indeed we soon see them doing when both of them answer the call of First World War patriotism by writing moralebuilding poems and stories . |
| 27 | But even the most socialist of them shared the view , articulated by Brailsford before the war , that the first task of the pacifist was not to overthrow capitalism but to ‘ check the worst consequences of a capitalistic foreign policy , and , if possible , turn it to some partial good . ’ |
| 28 | In early February , Sotheby 's received a letter from A. Schuttwolf , paintings curator at Gotha , who noted that there was no possibility of them buying the Wtewael , and that the painting could proceed to sale . |
| 29 | Perhaps the papers must be examined twice by two different examiners in different parts of the country ; the marks must be sent in to the central body by a certain date ; there may be not only scores of examination papers but hundreds , each of them containing the attempts of several questions . |
| 30 | Neither of them guarantee the right to have an alternation of power . " |