Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | None of the Indian girls complain , because they are afraid of being beaten up , so none of them go up to the headmaster and complain . |
| 32 | Well anyway , it reaches night and the three of them go down into the attic . |
| 33 | And the Relief Committee and the Board of Works inspector upstairs — four of them go out on the balcony , and there was a silence would have lifted off your hat . |
| 34 | They managed to get some ones on the sea , but they did have a try erm a lot of them come up with the erm barking up the wrong tree said the dog , you know , things like that with a bit of help . |
| 35 | The company participates in nearly a score of such ventures , some of them dating back to the 1930s . |
| 36 | Many of them grew up during the student revolution of the 1960s when an extraordinary hostility to wealth , power and respectability came to dominate a generation . |
| 37 | They contributed because on the one hand , they were asked and understood that what they had to say was important , and also because too many of them grew up in a world without such books . |
| 38 | There should be no more nonsense about one or other of them moving out for a matter of days or weeks only for the unsatisfactory relationship to resume just as unsatisfactorily as before . |
| 39 | There was no one at the pumping station in the Old Town , so the two of them headed back through the dockside streets to find out what was happening . |
| 40 | If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly . |
| 41 | Nkrumah dealt with the rebels by expelling 81 CPP members ; many of them drifted over to the NPP . |
| 42 | When a group of them walked up to a bar , they would reach into their clothes , and the last one to catch a louse had to buy . |
| 43 | The three of them walked back to the village . |
| 44 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 45 | Dzerzhinsky discovered 2,583 unused railway-trucks there ( some of them sent on from the Volga and dumped , as has been seen ) . |
| 46 | A good many boys and girls had joined the crowd now and shouts of laughter broke out as a few of them came out from the gate in the kitchen-garden wall , their hands full of ripe peaches , their chins dripping with juice . |
| 47 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 48 | When she allowed him to ‘ catch ’ her , the two of them rolled about on a pile of hessian rope , screeching and laughing , until David reminded Cissie that she was ‘ a young lady of certain years ’ and that Richard should remember how he had only been allowed to come to the docks on the understanding that he be on his ‘ best behaviour ’ . |
| 49 | All the ages of man and all the races of Islam seemed to be represented : mustachioed Arabs , dark-skinned Somalis , small South Indians in lungis , huge Delhi businessmen bulging out of their pyjamas , prodigiously bearded Afghans swathed in shawls like Old Testament prophets — all of them surging up through the Meena Bazaar towards the Jama Masjid steps . |
| 50 | He tried to bolster his courage by reciting the reasons for what he was doing : go per cent of them boiled down to a pressing need for money , so pressing that the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage ; the other lo per cent was divided between the desire to do Lorton a good turn and the feeling that the Newleys deserved whatever fate could throw at them . |
| 51 | They leaned close momentarily then began to come forward again , slowly , looking about them , the first of them pointing up at the ruined monastery . |
| 52 | Mind , she did n't go out this afternoon cos they went , some of them went up to the British Legion Club this afternoon . |
| 53 | She went straight into the kitchen , and automatically made them both a cup of coffee , a mutual family ritual when one of them went out to a meeting . |
| 54 | ‘ A lot of them look up to the likes of Johnny Marr and say : ‘ That 's what I want to sound like ! ’ |
| 55 | No , the , the , the extension of them going up for the cup and all , that 's what it was . |
| 56 | But most of them finish up against the scaffolding . |
| 57 | ‘ Most of them finish up against the bridge these days , apparently . ’ |
| 58 | The two of them galloped off down the steep grass bank . |
| 59 | Then some of them sat down on the sand and began to drink . |
| 60 | That 's fixed but some some of them started off with a a fo a double sided piece of paper which is thrown away with the rest of the garbage that people keep in their houses . |