Example sentences of "of they [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She should go back to her own bed and not risk either of them getting into more trouble , but he liked having the silly little thing cuddled up to him like a rabbit . |
| 2 | Most of them reappear with little change in the ‘ Ainulindalé ’ or ‘ Valaquenta ’ . |
| 3 | It was a relief to both of them to return to this familiar territory . |
| 4 | The sound of the water faded , there were only the two of them locked in this tiny space , and suddenly it became difficult to breathe . |
| 5 | The three of them looked at each other , and Husband said cautiously : ‘ If you say a matter of hours , you do mean tonight ? ’ |
| 6 | The three of them looked into each other 's faces , and seemed to breathe more freely . |
| 7 | And there was cotton gingham at two shillings a yard , you 'd have a smashing blouse out of that at six shillings , maybe four of them to go with each of the skirts . |
| 8 | Few of them recovered from this experience . |
| 9 | Although apparently some of them go to all lengths , resealing Coke cans what have you , to smuggle drink in . |
| 10 | The trouble was , there were too many of them packed into this room . |
| 11 | ‘ Wow ! ’ he said , leaving the stolid citizens of that part of Yorkshire feeling that it was remarkably civil of them to put on such a welcome for him . |
| 12 | Several groups of them specialise in this diet and each has evolved a long sticky tongue entirely independently : a marsupial , the numbat , in Australia ; a distant relative of primitive antelopes , the aardvark in Africa ; the pangolins of Asia and Africa which are covered in a mail of horny plates so that they resemble giant animated fir-cones ; and the three very different ant-eaters of South America , the gazelle-sized giant of the savannahs , the squirrel-sized pygmy from the forest canopy , and the monkey-sized tamandua from its mid-storey . |
| 13 | All of them played with such ferocious energy and skill that , for the next nightmarish seven minutes , she did n't touch the ball . |
| 14 | Send one of them to talk to this chap Jordan — Fowler will do it very well ; he 'd have been more than a match for the Ancient Mariner . |
| 15 | Nairn , as a holiday resort , has the name ‘ the Rye of the North ’ , and along the shore and near the golf clubs — one of them built on that land donated by David Thomson 's great-uncle — people park caravans hoping for mildness from the Moray Firth . |
| 16 | I do n't know why some of them get like that , well of course they should n't be doctors any how . |
| 17 | Was it Gregory Peck or one of them walked into this studio in America , oh James Stewart was it ? |
| 18 | Then they would suddenly all rise up as one , their great wings sweeping them rhythmically over the water , their legs stretched behind them , thousands of them flying above that great lake . |
| 19 | You 'd ha you 'd have it fixed two of them fixed like this on a a bit of a erm er straw rope . |
| 20 | There have been many positive developments , a large number of them led by this country such as the introduction of the single market . |
| 21 | Studies of such drugs in food-intolerant patients have shown that a large proportion of them suffer from these minor enzyme deficiencies ( see p 233 ) . |
| 22 | A batch of them came in this morning . ’ |
| 23 | When questioned further very few of them thought of this God or power as a man , but either as a person without a body or as something like air or gas , and a few said they did not know or that there was no God . |
| 24 | I er I nearly fell through the floor a little while ago I was British Gas people and one of them living with this lady and I want to give her half of my lump sum , how can I do to avoid er to effect her income tax or inheritance tax thinking in terms of the inheritance tax limit of a hundred and fifty thousand I said , Well would you mind telling me about how much it will be ? |
| 25 | So , when they had finished their ward round , the two of them went to each patient in turn and inquired tactfully whether they ate earth . |
| 26 | They presented a target thus for only a matter of seconds , though three of them fell in that time ; then they were hand-to-hand and at blows with the prince 's bodyguard and this was battle as it had formerly been understood between knights , and the hovering archers were crippled and out of the fight . |
| 27 | The differing styles of these articles mean they are not all suited to publication in similar outlets , but it is hoped that unlike past years ' winners we shall see all of them published in some form or other in the coming year . |
| 28 | I put that as an amendment , not reiterating the entire Labour budget , but I asked the Liberal Democrats , who purport to want to erm provide that sort of service to vulnerable people could they not accept that extra half a million pounds as an amendment , and two out of the group abstained , the rest of them voted against that as an amendment . |
| 29 | If they became angry at things said to them by professionals , as a majority of them did at some point , the horrifying causes of their anger were true , and were not projections of their own distress on to the professional concerned . |
| 30 | I thought it particularly nice of them to write at such length , as I had mistakenly called Roy Griffiths Mister ! |