Example sentences of "[det] of they [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1989 , 113 people died this way — nearly half of them by inhaling fumes from lighter refills . |
| 2 | The Leeds players are in search of some away form motivated by a warning from coach Mick Hennigan , who this week accused some of them of becoming ‘ celebrities ’ after the title win last April . |
| 3 | some of them of failed , and if they fail you have to pay so much . |
| 4 | And being pregnant seemed to shock some of them into giving . |
| 5 | If we impose those conditions on employers we shall discourage some of them from employing anyone . |
| 6 | Of course some of them like doing one job more than others ; I 've got one gardener who likes doing nothing else but cutting grass — well , he 's quite welcome to do that because the rest of us are not fussy . |
| 7 | It is not possible here to attempt to unravel the many strands of thought and practice that have historically influenced the contemporary curriculum in this way , but it may be useful to refer briefly to some of them before going on to consider the current pattern . |
| 8 | But the protesters were oumumbered and at the end of an hour they had been thrown out , some of them after suffering enough physical damage to require a visit to the casualty department of Hammersmith hospital . |
| 9 | The Government is currently reviewing all the laboratories to identify how best to build on the progress made by each of them towards becoming more commercial and cost-conscious organisations . |
| 10 | She would n't embarrass either of them by making a scene . |
| 11 | The first of them is the group thank you to all of them for assisting the panel sometimes working on the computing . |
| 12 | When 5 Corps had first been informed by Gen Schmidt-Richberg of the approach of 600,000 Germans and Croats to the southern edge of the Corps area on the evening of 13 May , it had been assumed that this huge mass of fugitives was on the verge of entering Austria and that it would be difficult to prevent all of them from doing so . |
| 13 | Plenty sprang to Edward 's mind , but he prevented any of them from passing his lips , which he momentarily pursed . |
| 14 | As with his own children , he actively discouraged any of them from becoming performers . |
| 15 | Fortunately she was unaware how often in future years she would resent John 's making decisions which involved both of them without consulting her . |
| 16 | If a girl had two parents still at home , she had to get written permission from both of them before performing . |
| 17 | Most of them on finding their symptoms gone see little point in either remembering their daily dose or for that matter paying out money for more medicine when they feel well . |
| 18 | Trotsky spoke for most of them in deprecating the ‘ priestly-Kantian , vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sanctity of human life ’ , and polemically defended a morality in which the end justified the means . |
| 19 | Make the most of them by writing to Feedback , Guitarist , |
| 20 | But for me there were still many problems to be overcome , and — to cut a long story short — I solved most of them by becoming a partner in a small company which we named Island Holidays . |
| 21 | This is virtually impossible from the day-to-day behaviour of animals in the laboratory , and the theoretical preoccupations of most psychologists distracted most of them from thinking about devising the sorts of formal test procedures we now use . |