Example sentences of "of them [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them died in the onslaught which followed , their historic city completely destroyed . |
| 2 | Ace turned off the news by remote control , cutting off the picture of them getting into the car on their way to the reception . |
| 3 | The king did not lack military resources , but they were useless if the men who were placed in command of them defected to the enemy . |
| 4 | Next time you are with a group of people , look around you and see how many of them breathe through the mouth . |
| 5 | A brief account of them occurs in the memoirs of William Tuckwell . |
| 6 | In a silence vibrating with silent accusation the three of them filed through the gap in the croton hedge . |
| 7 | As o through some of the possible problems , check back to see which of them apply to the slack parts of your own writing . |
| 8 | The two of them looked towards the little wooden table outside the sick bay , where a bottle labelled ‘ Dr MacLaren 's Stomach and Bowel Mixture ’ stood , together with a large spoon . |
| 9 | The three of them looked at the dark-dressed figure of their brother , his head back , as he stared at the huge oil painting of highland cattle hanging on the broad stone wall of the fireplace , and he answered , ‘ I do n't know , Reggie . |
| 10 | Both of them looked at the stain on the carpet in silence . |
| 11 | but er , a lot of them got on the twelve six , you goes the twelve thirty one any way we waved to her when she got on it the coach you see was full at Bart Green , you got , at Redditch |
| 12 | That was how many of them got into the peep shows , selling off their self-respect in order to finance their habit . |
| 13 | But with the change of rules meaning Warwickshire have to let one of them go at the end of the season , which one will it be ? |
| 14 | One of them parked across the narrow track leading away from the building ; it acted as a barrier . |
| 15 | He 'd caught a glimpse of the two of them reflected in the hall mirror and his heart had lurched because it looked as if he was propping up a corpse . |
| 16 | And the contact turned into an embrace without either of them looking at the other or talking , they just put their arms around each other . |
| 17 | ( The RSV seems clear enough when it speaks of them looking into the ark ( 6.19 ) , but the Hebrew will not really bear that sense , and would suggest they merely looked at it . |
| 18 | Both of them listened to the raised voices . |
| 19 | Instead he raised his talons and struck at the wire mesh in his own turn , which only provoked the other eagle to do the same again , the sounds of both of them increased by the flapping of their great wings and the crashing of their beaks on the cage walls as they vainly tried to get at each other . |
| 20 | interviews were taken on tours and I saw some of them go down the hill |
| 21 | Many of them go through the freedom of Grendon , only to be returned to the rough and tumble of ordinary jails to finish their sentences . |
| 22 | of them go to the weight training at . |
| 23 | But there are quite a few contracts which are still temporary , most of them go to the end of June . |
| 24 | Early reports suggested that few of them knew about the registration process because the government 's public information had been put out on a Friday , the first day of the Kuwaiti weekend . |
| 25 | Russian writers actually lived simultaneously in the two worlds — the ancient communalism of the peasantry , which so many of them knew from the long summers on their seignorial estates , and the world of the westernised and much-travelled intellectual . |
| 26 | Can my right hon. Friend say what proportion of that car crime is carried out by juveniles and how many of them come into the category of persistent offenders ? |
| 27 | Most of them come from the island of Samos or Bodrum in Turkey . |
| 28 | The point is — and our survey reveals it — that such an amount does deter some youngsters from participating in tournaments and again with respect , I would guess that few of them come from the lovely part of the country from where you write . |
| 29 | Most of them are opportunists , most of them come from the local area they 'll know the housing estates and whatever happens . |
| 30 | Western liberals and the Left once again found their credulity stretched in defence of the one state which most of them saw as the only bulwark against Nazi Germany . |