Example sentences of "them [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Now the three of them were hovering in the reception area , arguing about what to do . |
| 2 | The last forty years of the seventeenth century were a boom period for country house building , and although many of them were replaced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , Oswaldkirk is a beautiful reminder of the high quality of those houses . |
| 3 | Twelve bedsteads were urgently required and were ordered from Messrs. Kilpin and Leach ; the mattresses and ticking for them were obtained from the House of Industry . |
| 4 | Moreover , many of them were made with the aim of preserving achievements from an earlier period ( particularly , the stable currency and low inflation ) . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the models of chemistry remained rather imperfect , and substantial advances in understanding them were made in the third quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Thirteen of them were made by the electrical process in 1930–31 , but three were acoustically produced ten years earlier . |
| 7 | Those at the exiled Court became hopelessly out of touch with political realities in post-Revolutionary England ; many of them were living in the world as they thought it had been in the late 1680s , and their platform increasingly appeared to have less and less relevance to the new problems facing England . |
| 8 | The two of them were implicated in the hounding to death of Chilperic 's son Merovech in 577 . |
| 9 | Hardly any public cinemas are functioning , most of them were destroyed in the bombing . |
| 10 | His associate Auguste Laurent- and both of them were kept on the fringe of the French scientific establishment — was more hopeful : he believed that it was possible to determine formulae and structures , but not inductively as chemists had so far tried to do . |
| 11 | The dead young men on them were covered by the nylon parachutes they had been unable to use to save their lives . |
| 12 | Some of them were absorbed by the empire , where they constructed an administrative system remarkable for the degree of local autonomy exercised within it , and where they pursued , amid uncomprehending but generally unresisting natives , dreams of winning the trust and loyalty of their charges by their integrity , fairness , firmness , and likableness . |
| 13 | It was as the pair of them were passing through the doorway into the hall that Jake turned for a moment to catch Shiona 's eye . |
| 14 | By Sunday evening , when it was time for them to leave and the three of them were piling into the Bentley , what she felt inside her , by any definition , was far more than simply sexual excitement . |
| 15 | I expect that the people who made them were influenced by the Labour party 's ’ Standard No. 17 ’ , which was circulated among people in the area . |
| 16 | The servants were subdued by the occasion , sensing at last that something was badly wrong , it was a rare occasion when all of them were summoned before the mistress at the same time . |
| 17 | Eighteen of them were killed in the first stage of the pursuit , 5 were later " cutdown in the highways " and 2 more at Gidom . |
| 18 | To my surprise , many of them were echoed by the hon. Member for Hammersmith . |
| 19 | The murder , it is suspected , was intended to foment open conflict in Belfast between the Ulster Defence Association and the rival Ulster Volunteer Force as relations between them were strained at the time . |
| 20 | Some of them were shown to the solicitors of a Mr Jaggard , who was defending civil actions in the Chancery Division brought by the same company . |
| 21 | The sick who had no one to tend them were spread through the inner , inhabited core of the city , in the monasteries , in the hospice of the Knights of St John with their double chapels . |
| 22 | The two of them were walking by the Seine after a visit to some friends . |
| 23 | And er they were , well quite a lot of them were scrapped in the days when the depression came on . |
| 24 | One evening , when the two of them were sitting at the Rotonde , Beatrice , ‘ the lady of Montmartre ’ , entered with a handsome escort . |
| 25 | I 'd walk up to the corner of Mill Street — a very scruffy street , and there was a gang of fellers standing on the corner and some of them were sitting on the pub sill and others standing around . |
| 26 | Some of them were approached by the Press and television news reporters . |
| 27 | For a period , many of them were housed in the Culloden Hotel amid rural surroundings in Co . |
| 28 | Fortunately , they were well published soon after their discovery ; unfortunately , most of them were stolen from the Cabinet des Medailles in Paris in the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | Of greater significance than the numbers of schools established in 1850 to 1860 is the fact that some of them were founded for the express purpose of teaching deaf children through the Oral System . |
| 30 | Some of them would be put over hurdles next season , perhaps one might be sold to Barbados or Abu Dhabi in the forlorn hope that they could win something there , but most of them were racing in the shadow of the knacker 's yard . |