Example sentences of "of they [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and there 's less chance of them getting lost because if we send it over to Monkland and it comes back here , it goes to Doctor , you know how he 's all over the place , |
| 2 | There is a controversy going on in America at the moment because President Bush has decided to cut his military arsenal which means that many people working would lose their jobs , and because of the recession there is not much chance of them getting other jobs . |
| 3 | Our only means of escape is alcohol , and I keep off that pretty much ; but I ca n't say I blame chaps for getting drunk ( apart from the fact that it does n't do you any good ) , for few of them take any interest in books . |
| 4 | Many of them make regular trips to the filmset where it was all put together , at Portmeirion in Wales . |
| 5 | It was conducted , too , in French since France was the country to which most of them owed intellectual allegiance . |
| 6 | But none of them does full justice to the purpose of Scripture as set out by the Bible writers themselves , or to the cumulative experience of Bible users through the centuries . |
| 7 | While the deal goes down the rest of them wait next door . |
| 8 | Most of them ignored mere second-year nurses , unless they were incredibly attractive like Sara Calvert . |
| 9 | Most of them looked stunned , some thunderstruck , others almost tearful . |
| 10 | Most of them looked dazed , but in a happy sort of way . |
| 11 | Certainly , none of them looked afraid . |
| 12 | Every one of them looked worried . |
| 13 | Felipe 's possessive attitude rid her of the attentions of Peter Rainford and when Felipe offered to show them Ana 's skills neither of them looked overjoyed . |
| 14 | Neither of them looked happy these days . |
| 15 | Most of them looked cold and miserable , and they were the men who had bought meals there when they could afford to do so , men who had helped build up the business . |
| 16 | So how many of them got pregnant ? |
| 17 | Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money . |
| 18 | Most of them got thirty years . |
| 19 | One of them got lost in the corridors and another dropped some important equipment into the sea . |
| 20 | And eleven of them got involved in a fist fight in the middle of one of those New York streets . |
| 21 | Some of them got religious or went barmy I seem to remember , but the point is they were all different when they came back . |
| 22 | Alexander O'Neal , Freddie Jackson and Luther Vandross could substitute for one another if one of them got sick , while a new ‘ Women ’ category has been opened to accommodate Tanita Tikaram , Suzanne Vega , Tracy Chapman etc . |
| 23 | Observation sentences can be individually verified and our acceptance of them justified one by one , and constitute the evidence on which the non-observational , that is to say the whole of science , must rest ; this is the epistemological asymmetry . |
| 24 | ‘ Why me ? ’ he asks Phil Schaffer , as the two of them sit late in Indian restaurants , eating blazing vindaloos after watching old Humphrey Bogart movies at cinemas beyond the railway sidings , on autumn nights when each sodium light has a yellow halo in the foggy air . |
| 25 | Given their basic categorial " frame of reference " , the central issue for most of them becomes one of defining the criteria of significant ascriptions of experiences — which in practice invariably reduces to the problem of defining the general truth-conditions of ascribing experiences to others . |
| 26 | And each of them becomes less and less funny if they are too closely followed by a third . |
| 27 | But if either one of them gets frisky , you 're on your own . ’ |
| 28 | Not all of them enjoyed full sovereignty nor were very united or coherent in structure . |
| 29 | At five o'clock tea was served to the Empress and about 20 of her guests , the groups being so organized that in the course of a week all of them enjoyed this privilege , thus avoiding any outbursts of jealousy or recrimination . |
| 30 | Some MA(Honours) degrees require a student to take a secondary subject for two years , and virtually all of them require one or two ‘ outside ’ subjects , in addition to the main field of study . |