Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [v-ing] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years ago I saw a couple of Eastenders stars come in erm and Ross whatever his name forget his name there were two young girls standing in front of me scraping pennies out of their purse to get in though we loved that character they wanted to come that night we 've got to get girls like that youngsters like that interested to come on other nights and then come again that 's what needs doing . . |
| 2 | Quite a large proportion of the world 's volcanoes are located on the oceanic crust , most of them forming parts of the mid-ocean ridge systems . |
| 3 | Among them were women between 70 and 80 years of age , some of them using crutches . |
| 4 | Ross is keeping price and performance pretty much under cover , though there is talk of them shipping samples to Sun in July . |
| 5 | Hume gives photograph after photograph of steepsided valleys in limestone and sandstone country in Egypt , which are obviously of watercut form , many of them containing caves , from which springs probably issued at an earlier period . |
| 6 | Demonstrations and disorders continued , some of them involving firearms , explosives and loss of life ; the decision of the Congress of People 's Deputies to elect an Azerbaijani as well as an Armenian to represent the region in the new Supreme Soviet aroused particular indignation . |
| 7 | Other allegations of torture came from a New York Bar Association report released in November 1989 and the Turkish Human Rights Association which on Feb. 1 , 1990 , cited evidence of 37 alleged cases of torture in 1989 , 10 of them involving women , in police custody . |
| 8 | More importantly , it was now divided into five departments on an essentially geographical basis , three of them handling relations with distinct groups of European states and the other two those with Asiatic ones ( China , Persia , the khanates of central Asia and the little Georgian kingdoms in the Caucasus ) . |
| 9 | Ships sailing ships there were , have n't you seen the picture of them sailing ships . |
| 10 | A small bar was open in front of them bearing bottles of whisky and brandy . |
| 11 | Moreover , many of our tied houses are relatively small pubs , many of them serving villages and rural communities . |
| 12 | The Victorians spent countless hours on trains and passed many of them reading books . |
| 13 | Ahead of her were half a dozen people , two of them pushing trolleys laden with luggage . |
| 14 | Long ones , short ones , stubby ones , in all the colours of the rainbow and some of them displaying names that went back generations in the East End . |
| 15 | To Michael Powell documentary was nothing more than a refuge for ‘ disappointed feature filmmakers or out-of-work poets ’ , but the wartime films he made within an immensely fruitful collaboration ( the Archers ) with the Hungarian Emeric Pressburger , with the two of them sharing credits for production , direction and screenwriting , take on documentary concerns in ways which indicate that the absorption of the documentary filmmakers into commercial filmmaking was only an incidental part of a process with roots deep in wartime culture . |
| 16 | We need to see more of our young people staying on at school , more of them going into further and higher education and more of them achieving qualifications . |
| 17 | I am trying to get a sighting of them eating cornflakes and drinking twelve — fourteen — sixteen nineteen bottles of wine . |
| 18 | Various other theories also exist , some of them combining elements of both retributivism and reductivism . |
| 19 | Both of them holding roses |
| 20 | The two of them holding hands in a summer lane . |
| 21 | AMNESTY 's British Section attracted 30,000 new members in 1991 , bringing the total to 90,000 , and saw the formation of 17 new local groups — 13 of them campaigning groups — a total of 318 , according to AIBS director David Bull in his report to the AGM . |
| 22 | Twenty-four backbenchers took part in the debate , most of them making speeches opposed to the Bill . |
| 23 | There are well signposted walks , some of them offering views of the snow-topped Alps . |
| 24 | Pouring across the Pennines from Lancashire to be joined by eager exalted crowds from Bradford , Halifax , Barnoldswick , Huddersfield , Frizingley , some of them carrying sticks and flails and home-made pikes , most of them empty-handed and full-hearted , singing their Chartist hymns of freedom and justice and brotherhood and stopping every mill they passed on their way by the simple process of removing the plug from the boiler , letting off the mill-dam , and drawing the workers into their ranks with the irresistible attraction of a ragged , hundred-handed Pied Piper . |
| 25 | The Japanese news agency Kyodo reported that a number of " destructive elements " , some of them carrying bombs , had been arrested near the Games village . |
| 26 | Behind comes a column of workers , scurrying along a dozen or so abreast , many of them carrying larvae . |
| 27 | The performance of diesels has been transformed by the availability of turbochargers on most models , giving the majority of them cruising capabilities in excess of 100mph . |
| 28 | Well I do n't mind doing one card , but I hate it when I 've got about seven or eight of them chuffing things ! |
| 29 | The detectives who were not detectives after all stepped forward to meet him , one of them shaking hands , the other slapping him on the back . |
| 30 | Here is the story of his life and of the succession of movies , remarkably similar in tone and most of them featuring actors like Robert de Niro and Harvey Keitel , which have raised him to the status of ( perhaps ) the world 's most famous film director . |