Example sentences of "of them [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , well they all said next time they 'll check , because some of them just just take it for granted . |
| 2 | When the Minister next talks to the local authorities about this issue , will he point out that many of them no longer give rehousing priority to ex-service personnel , but expect them to go through the normal homeless families procedures ? |
| 3 | So far as enterprises are concerned , their accounts are now in such a state of confusion that most of them no longer care about increases in their costs . |
| 4 | The middle reach was occupied by small craft , mostly laying up for the winter , some of them already double lashed down under weather-cloths . |
| 5 | As Scott said later , the judges ‘ were not Gothicly disposed and though they awarded premiums to all the best Gothic designs they took care not to put any of them high enough to have much chance ’ . |
| 6 | Perhaps ‘ second-joystick option ’ was the wrong phrase to use , but when joysticks were plugged into both ports , one of them most definitely DID N'T work ! |
| 7 | Her sleeve of care was unravelled all right : her life was a basket of woollen shreds , all shades and textures and not one of them long enough to do anything with . |
| 8 | fix these in your mind as units you will have to work on to make each of them as nutritionally sound as possible . |
| 9 | Single adults constitute 30 per cent of total lettings , with 13,000 of the group moving into association homes each year , most of them in poorly paid jobs or unemployed , whose rents amount to about 38 per cent of net income . |
| 10 | The leadership of the organization within the Labour Party remained with Cripps , Strauss and Mellor , all of them still fully committed to the Unity Manifesto . |
| 11 | The G M B and other unions , but principally the G M B cos that 's one I 'm concerned about , needs to pressurize councillors and officers because councillors and officers have been bombarded with almost as much legislation as the trade unions have had from the Tory government and most of them actually just want an easy time , so you 've got to hassle them , you got to harass them what they do . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , few of them actually ever bothered to try it for themselves — they just relied on the evidence presented . |
| 13 | There are several more groups of odd echinoderms in the Lower Palaeozoic rocks — some of them only recently discovered , like the bizarre helicoplacoids , which look like nothing so much as spinning tops ( see p. 84 ) . |
| 14 | There are a number of good books on sampling , some of them now particularly aimed at the social scientist , but even the best of books can only deal with problems in fairly general terms . |
| 15 | There has been some argument about whether or not they knew what he was doing , but most of them now piously assert that they had no such knowledge and some take the view that it was an outrageous breach of confidence . |
| 16 | AFTER initial relief about last week 's interest rate rises , the markets , most of them now fully valued , immediately searched for new issues to worry about . |
| 17 | Whether pink or stripy , or black and hairy , they are almost all first generation wild fruits from endangered habitats in the Third World , though some of them so now languish in the hot-houses of New Zealand or the Channel Islands . |
| 18 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
| 19 | It has 460 people on its books — all of them far better qualified than Macaulay Culkin in the hit film Home Alone — who are ready to take up temporary residence anywhere from John O'Groats to Land 's End . |