Example sentences of "[noun pl] of they [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a time , soldiers in Ulster were denied the protection of armoured personnel carriers because pictures of them on television and in the press would remind people of the Russian tanks which overran Czechoslovakia . |
| 2 | ‘ I got some pictures of them at home . |
| 3 | I had to sleep in the same room as loads of them on account of we said I was his secretary . ’ |
| 4 | This became clear when , in an attempt to investigate further the nature of the personal pronoun constraint on the non-standard concord rule , all occurrences of they as subject in the speech of 12 speakers were collected ( N=310 ) , from which only one example was discovered of a singular verb : |
| 5 | The existence of the tapes came to light when they were acquired by Cable Network News , which broadcast portions of them in defiance of a court prohibition . |
| 6 | I 've still got stacks of them in kitchen . |
| 7 | Both the activities of local antislavery associations and public meetings engendered petitions and the recurrent presentation of large numbers of them to parliament was a striking feature of antislavery history . |
| 8 | Er , it was one of one of the channels yes talking to these stars you know and they were relating their training and also they were showing some of the best some of the best shots of them in action in films . |
| 9 | He showed us videos of them in action and I was convinced he was going to bring out the old Kirk Douglas film The Vikings to empha-sise the point , ’ said Neal . |