Example sentences of "of they [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darci Alves confessed to sole responsibility , in what was seen as an attempt to get his father acquitted , but a key prosecution witness , Genesio Ferreira da Silva , 15 , a former employee and relative of the Alves family , stated that he had overheard both of them plotting the murder and that they had celebrated its successful execution with a barbecue . |
| 2 | But Katherine also realized that the longer ti took , the more chance there was of them leaving the country . |
| 3 | This was the traditional mooring place for dahabeeyahs and in the old days , before Mr Cook had come with his steamers , there would have been over two hundred of them nudging the bank . |
| 4 | That they did not was evident in 1988 as 112 gentlemen archers , over half of them using the traditional longbow , took aim at the annual tournament for the ‘ Antient Scorton Silver Arrow ’ . |
| 5 | The doors were flung open as the occupants climbed out , one of them dragging the girl behind him . |
| 6 | Admittedly , Popper and Habermas may seem to be strange bedfellows ; for they have entered the lists against each other precisely over their views on knowledge and reason , both of them seeing the other as an unwitting ideologue . |
| 7 | In early February , Sotheby 's received a letter from A. Schuttwolf , paintings curator at Gotha , who noted that there was no possibility of them buying the Wtewael , and that the painting could proceed to sale . |
| 8 | Perhaps the papers must be examined twice by two different examiners in different parts of the country ; the marks must be sent in to the central body by a certain date ; there may be not only scores of examination papers but hundreds , each of them containing the attempts of several questions . |
| 9 | Competition in a market with few suppliers , none of them controlling the market but each relatively large ( oligopoly ) is much more likely to be distorted if one of those suppliers takes over or acquires an interest in another , than in a market characterised by fierce competition among many suppliers . |
| 10 | Five male People were there , one of them controlling the other four . |
| 11 | Indeed , it is not so much a case of them accompanying the AIB team members as of them being part of the team . |
| 12 | Anyone opening a computer magazine will find themselves confronted with a bewildering array of advertisements , all of them promising the greatest deals known to mankind . |
| 13 | So too did many others , on both sides of the Pennines , not all of them obeying the mischievous hints of Captain Goldsborough , of course — since even he could not have been in so many places all at once — but intent on stirring up trouble nevertheless . |
| 14 | The result was a flood of Maori claims , many of them demanding the return of large areas of land . |
| 15 | Merlins will also hunt together , three or four of them chasing the same group of skylarks . |
| 16 | And so it went on , neither of them hearing the real concern of the other . |
| 17 | The attacking column disappeared along the road , some of them entering the fields in the area of the No. 6 Commando . |
| 18 | This downward mobility is now being reinforced by educational changes that operate not only to prevent the most disadvantaged children from benefiting from the increased degree of upward social mobility , but also prevent many of them entering the labour market at all . |
| 19 | There are nearly twenty co-ops in the city now , all of them involving the tenants in deep and detailed commitment both to the planning and to each other . |
| 20 | He passed beside them all , seeing no one , his eyes fixed on the sea and the skiff , and the two great ships and the galleys beyond , all of them flying the Lusignan flag . |
| 21 | Some of them serving the Institute well , by holding office at local or national level and others by being ( what I will become on Sunday ) ‘ an ordinary grumbling member ’ . |
| 22 | The consequences of them wanting the drafts to be turned down . |
| 23 | An astonishing 6400 replies were received , more than 90 per cent of them supporting the creation of the sanctuary , while 80 per cent wanted a total or seasonal ban on set-netting within the sanctuary area . |
| 24 | Symbolic , perhaps , of a ‘ gentler age ’ was the presence of the Archbishop of Canterbury and eleven Bishops in the Division lobbies , all of them supporting the Bill , in contrast with the solitary Bishop ( Chichester ) who had voted for abolition in 1948 . |
| 25 | There I should have welcomed a faster tempo both for the waltz of the first half , and for the galop of the second , both of them evoking the atmosphere of the fairground as a tenth birthday tribute to the Fairfield Hall in Croydon . |
| 26 | Grunte 's views were not untypical : there were too many blacks , buggers and uppity women , all of them reading the Observer . |
| 27 | The boat was ready to leave now and two members of its small crew began casting off , one of them pushing the boat away from the quayside with a long boat-hook . |
| 28 | Jane had shown Patrick how to open the bottle of champagne , and they drank it slowly , neither of them enjoying the sharp fizzy taste , but neither willing to admit it . |
| 29 | The challenge was taken up by no less than 23 teams during the AKA Convention that year at Columbus , Ohio , all of them fulfilling the specification of being colourful , distinctive and exciting . |
| 30 | Er , and I got up and I protested about it , on the grounds that if they could n't run a great big pop hall for , and I wholly agreed with the idea , of of them providing the facility . |