Example sentences of "of them [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of them died leaving a minor to succeed . |
| 2 | Henry II had five sons who were suspicious and envious of each other , but three of them died before Henry died in the summer of 1189 , and all his possessions passed to Richard , who had pledged himself to set out for the Holy Land on the Third Crusade . |
| 3 | Two of them died . |
| 4 | LOU : Listen to this poem : ‘ Some of my friends dress as women/Some of them like to take smack/Some of them died of diseases/But all of them think I am crap . ’ |
| 5 | Many of them died , but as I left in September , there was a tangible improvement in the condition of those remaining . |
| 6 | One of them died almost immediately ; its little body was dressed in a clean nightdress and linen cap and its arms were folded on its breast ; then it was taken at night to be buried . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , a couple of them died recently . |
| 8 | Four of them died in there , all in the last eighteen months . ’ |
| 9 | One of them died soon afterwards ; and the other one — I saw it myself-was so bad and its head so swollen up with the stings that it had to be supported in its stable by a kind of sling fixed to the roof . ’ |
| 10 | Signor Baruffini and another farmer were sent to Germany : both of them died in Mathausen . |
| 11 | Of course lots of them died . |
| 12 | Some 1500 native prisoners had their right hand and left foot cut off , the traditional punishment for fighting against their country : most of them died . |
| 13 | My dogs could not run much further , and one of them died . |
| 14 | Many of them died triumphantly . |
| 15 | The Uniates , who were found mainly in Transylvania , had some 1,700,000 adherents and 1,500 churches before their suppression in 1948 , after which time they operated underground with 500 clandestine priests , their 12 bishops having been put in prison , where all but two of them died . |
| 16 | Of the five rebleeders , two received a second injection with the same solution and one achieved haemostasis , the other refused an operation and died soon afterwards ; one received heater probe thermocoagulation and achieved haemostasis ; and two received surgical intervention ( one of them died of wound infection with sepsis , the other had an uneventful course ) . |
| 17 | He stroked the strings , and before the echo of them died , he said , ‘ Señorita me quieres ? ’ |
| 18 | Most of them died in the onslaught which followed , their historic city completely destroyed . |
| 19 | Many of them died because drivers simply did n't see them in the dark or poor visibility . |
| 20 | Most of them died of starvation , beatings or exposure to sub-zero weather , bound naked to trees outside the group 's mountain hideouts. — Reuter |
| 21 | More than 2,000 British volunteers flocked to fight the Fascists but 500 of them died and nearly all the survivors were wounded . |
| 22 | Both were equally unsteady platforms for a marksman but that did n't preclude one of them getting killed by a chance shot . |
| 23 | But he was so scared of them getting his own father that he had given them no names at all , not even his own . |
| 24 | Minor thefts , for example , may not be reported as the victims feel there is little chance of them getting their goods back or of the offender getting caught . |
| 25 | She should go back to her own bed and not risk either of them getting into more trouble , but he liked having the silly little thing cuddled up to him like a rabbit . |
| 26 | Each of them getting more heated by the blow . |
| 27 | Where there was a danger in the past of them getting tagged as the Talulah Gosh it 's OK to laugh with , the Popinjays have packed away their school recorders and become grander , more articulate and sexy than you 'd have ever guessed before . |
| 28 | 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 , |
| 29 | A lot of them getting killed there . |
| 30 | Ace turned off the news by remote control , cutting off the picture of them getting into the car on their way to the reception . |