Example sentences of "of they [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 To babies had this dried milk and some of them got it cheap and I suppose there was no work and then they were poor were n't they .
2 The saxophonist 's widow refused to lie in Ken and Rhoda 's bed , so Ken offered it to Bernard and Ellen : they took the offer , rightly , as a gesture of approval , and the four of them carried it one very early morning from No. 97 to No. 93 .
3 Their nerve was a match for his ; they had most of them served him several years , for his men did not leave him .
4 He looked round them all as though none of them afforded him any surprise , though two of them did not belong here , and to his certain knowledge had been elsewhere only a short time ago .
5 Obviously most of them had them marked or had their name on them , so that they would have the same er the same set of tools every day .
6 After that , the two of them left me alone .
7 Most of them left me alone whilst I wrote and if they did want something they waited till I looked up .
8 ( Both of them told me this ! ) ’
9 Many of them found it easier to move on to the North American mainland after their indentures had expired .
10 Both of them found it difficult to express their feelings on the war , except in the third person , so strong were their views .
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