Example sentences of "of them [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | It was n't polite of them not to answer the door , knowing that he was standing there , but it did n't really matter . |
2 | ‘ Lovely bit of weather , ’ said her father , and her mother remarked that she always thought it so silly of them not to go out in the country more when they lived so near to it . |
3 | Burning brands from the huts and from two galleys the MacIans had fired were seized and thrown into the MacIans ' own ships , to draw some of them away to put out the fires . |
4 | Thousands of foreigners from all parts of the world were so concerned about events in Spain that they actually went there to fight in the war , many of them never to return . |
5 | And you have to get some of them in to make good scores . |
6 | The rest of them still to go . |
7 | She had seen him surrounded by people shouting and screaming , ‘ Go on , my son ’ , not one of them down to lose or win as much as Jack , and he 'd just stand there like a beautiful , pale statue . |
8 | Ianthe picked up a bottle in each hand , then had to put one of them down to ring the front door bell . |
9 | Questions of this switched on and some of them how to do . |
10 | Trent considered showing one of them how to keep the bows of the Zodiac to the wind in case he had to cast them off but Louis was beside him . |
11 | She 's had two or three of them home to stay and things . |
12 | Sorry , do n't you mean the two of them about to go . |