Example sentences of "of they [adv] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ushered in a decade in which composers began to find ways of circumventing the proscription on opera , even if many of them full avoided the full trappings of the opera house . |
| 2 | There was police intervention almost immediately ; an NILP loudspeaker van , which was making announcements , was stopped and its three occupants were taken to Victoria RUC station where , one of them later told the Belfast Telegraph , they were charged with incitement to defy the ban on the march . |
| 3 | Of the ‘ preferred ’ fruit trees , the distributions of the adult trees of three of them closely resembled the seed shadows made by the tamarins in a way not unlike that of the birds mentioned at the end of section 6.2.1 . |
| 4 | Once they found their bearings some of them even discovered a few side-benefits to internment : |
| 5 | Two brave men changed direction to rush to his aid , but neither of them even reached the wire . |
| 6 | Some European nations still gave much weight to traditional authority , but most of them also showed a growing tendency to seek to legitimize such authority on other grounds . |
| 7 | Some of them evidently lacked a stem , and must have lain loosely on the bottom . |
| 8 | One of them sometimes had an apple to pass . |
| 9 | Although the rumours of the Queen 's supposed adulteries were real enough and , given the prevailing double standard in sexual matters , much more shocking than the stories of the King 's mistresses , none the less if either of them ever had a romantic love affair it is likely to have been Henry rather than Eleanor . |
| 10 | Old Mr. Stavanger and Mr. Andrew both liked a glass in the Masters ' Room , but neither of them ever took a drop too much . |
| 11 | I could swear that some of them actually wanted the police to find a body . |
| 12 | The Italian government , concerned that the better things should remain in Italy , were delighted to hear that many of them only made the journey by canal from the Cannareggio to the piano nobile of the Palazzo Malpiero . |
| 13 | ’ One of them once said the only thing that came close to giving her the same thrill she got from shoplifting was having sex in a public place — you know it 's wrong and you might be caught , but it feels great , ’ adds Liz . |
| 14 | More importantly , none of them spontaneously reflected the irony or the exaggerations of the passage in their recall . |
| 15 | The training officer group were more likely to refer to joint or group decisions , none of them specifically mentioned the need for central approval , few mentioned relevancy to post as being essential ( or if they did it was within a wider framework of reference than relevance to post alone ) , and they were more likely to specify that the needs of the service and the needs of the individual were both taken into account . |
| 16 | One of them always got the better shots . |