Example sentences of "of them [be] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Some of them are nearly six foot , ’ I said , ‘ And here I am , very small , very short , ’ and I was very slim in those days . |
2 | Some of them are quite big north of the county |
3 | Look , masculine , feminine Kevin masculine , feminine some of them are really hard Zar , Marino distinctive name given to some countries , look the dairy of Northern Europe , Debonair cut your nails down ! |
4 | Neither of them is over six foot yet both more than punch their weight . |
5 | er , I did n't see a nun at , most of them were just ordinary nursing staff , just popped in to see how I was and we had a long chat about |
6 | On the one hand , they were part of the public sector , in that they were administered under DES teacher-training regulations but not under further education regulations and two-thirds of them were under local authority control , the rest being denominational colleges . |
7 | By 1952 , about 100,000 of them were too busy reading the excellent new music paper , New Musical Express , to watch them . |
8 | About two , some of them were about two foot some of them were about four |