Example sentences of "of them [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This approach recognises continuing activities as part of the School Development Plan , but forces justification of them each year . |
| 2 | This charity does magnificent work for children , caring for over 11,000 of them each year ; today they run 200 projects , about which I have written in previous diaries . |
| 3 | Some district council 's elect all their councillors once every four years — others elect a third of them each year with a year off while the county council elections are held . |
| 4 | But the new game she had invented of punishing one or both of them each time they were beastly to her made her life more or less bearable . |
| 5 | Erm the inter-club show erm we had to pay judges er two of them thirty pound , we would normally have got Keith for nothing , I know that we had two judges so we had to pay them er we did like so that 's two fifty pounds and we bought some we had some old trophies which we were able to buy plates for to use for that event . |
| 6 | I used to go back home via the local Underground and I 'd take six of our Irish doormen with me , all of them six foot three , and they 'd take the rollers from the roller towels in the Gents and they 'd stand around me , and we would go out in a ‘ flying wedge ’ . |
| 7 | One or two of the men greeted Kalchu with nods and comments and several of them expressed surprise that I was coming with them . |
| 8 | Nearly all of them expressed unhappiness or discontent , particularly teenager Anne , who was threatening to leave home . |
| 9 | Many of them expressed appreciation of local cathedral organists and parish musicians who provide a lead and incentive to others . |
| 10 | In April 1941 Japan and Russia concluded a non-aggression ( neutrality ) pact , which appeared to offer both of them short-term security . |
| 11 | Right , I 've spoken to both of them first thing this morning about their trainers . |
| 12 | Since entrances were not screened and materials were poor — many of them one brick thick or built in pisé , a version of mud — they were cold and cheerless , with rain actually driving in through the walls . |
| 13 | You suddenly come across something , and , whether it is er , medicine , mostly , or technique think , first of them one stage after another was invented , more or less by accident . |
| 14 | The moon has set ( the warriors with Dulé are still gliding towards the Rebecca ; the sloop is growing broader , taller , blacker as they approach her ) , but the stars are burning in the dark blue distance , one of them sparkling emerald and ruby and sapphire as if shaking drops of water from itself after a bathe in the liquid of the sky . |
| 15 | And they wore that all day all of them all day ? |
| 16 | Syria , or rather Antiochus , pollutes the Temple of Jerusalem on the eve of a final war which will give him victory over Egypt , but which will soon be followed by the deliverance of the Jews and by the Last Judgement : " And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake , some to everlasting life and some to reproaches and everlasting abhorrence " ( 12.2 ) . |
| 17 | And he said , It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery , neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome : but the noise of them that sing do I hear ’ . ’ |
| 18 | Takes some of them that way . |
| 19 | and Alan says if you can still tell any of them that way . |
| 20 | There are certain topics about which I have nothing to say , and they covered almost every one of them that night . |
| 21 | The end was in sight for a number of them that day in Chorzow : Alan Ball , sent off , unable to contain his frustration ; Ramsey , the most successful of England 's managers , sacked within a year . |
| 22 | At the close of the service , the processions reformed behind their bands and banners ( there were ten of them that day ) and wound their way back to their own church or chapel for lunch and sports . |
| 23 | are few in number ( 84 , most of them Roman Catholic ) , and they arose from the government 's offer in 1936 to pay 50–75% of the cost of building new secondary schools . |
| 24 | People came from far and near to see the wonders they wrought , and eventually , like the Myrcans , some of them accepted service with the lords of Minginish . |
| 25 | it had , erm one of them cast iron baths you know in the middle of the bathroom with the sort of er curly legs , Queen Anne type legs on it |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , ’ Joe continued , ‘ he said she looks like one of them bloody film stars . ’ |
| 27 | The unfortunates were sent over to the other building from which they would ring clients who owed money , and would demand of them immediate payment . |
| 28 | She was going to have her husband was in khaki as a territorial and her and her bridesmaid was going to have khaki frocks to be some of them great velvet frocks . |
| 29 | Phoebe made all three of them hot chocolate . |
| 30 | Some of them gathered firewood , others drew water . |