Example sentences of "of they [verb] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of them getting more heated by the blow . |
| 2 | Three of the foremost had tried to ride to his aid , and one of them lay now propped against a tree with an arrow through the fleshy part of his right upper arm , clutching it tightly with his left to slow the bleeding . |
| 3 | The door bell rang ; and in any case the three of them had already heard the steps on the gravel . |
| 4 | ‘ About two-thirds of them had already broken into the European market , particularly France , but were seeking new outlets : the rest were starting from scratch . ’ |
| 5 | Some of them had already run and spread in such a way as to lose their identity . |
| 6 | Most of them had already gone home — were slumped in shock on the floor . |
| 7 | No subjects reported having expected a memory test even though many of them had already taken part in Study 1 . |
| 8 | Although most existing powers and responsibilities over the delivery of health services and the production of utilities , such as electricity and gas , were effectively removed by post-war nationalization , within the welfare state the role of councils was substantially increased , building on responsibilities some of them had already claimed in the inter-war period . |
| 9 | Most of them had already breakfasted and he shared the dining-room with only a few others . |
| 10 | Thus , in most WFS countries in the Western Hemisphere and East & South-East Asia & Oceania regions , among the women who were aged 25–29 when interviewed , median age at first marriage or union was about 20.2 and 18.8 , respectively , and the median age at first birth ( i.e. the age at which half of them had already had a birth ) was around 21 years ( between 19 and 24 years in individual countries ) . |
| 11 | One of them had also set a maximum on the number of hours that would be offered , so that whilst its regular labour force was largely full-time , its temporary labour force worked no more than three-quarter time . |
| 12 | He and Fonda retired to their trailer , smoked some marijuana and then came out and told the crowd of local youths that they should imagine that the two of them had just arrived in town , and , on the way , they had picked up a local girl of fifteen , and raped and left her in the bushes . |
| 13 | Neither of them had even acknowledged Mitch . |
| 14 | Rachel stared at her sister in silence , shocked by what she had just heard , not so much by the fact that Paul Mason had been married but because he was as different from David Markham as it was possible for a man to be , and none of them had even suspected what had been happening . |
| 15 | One of them had even contrived to get sunburned . |
| 16 | He knew that he 'd been close , but then somehow it had all slipped away from him ; when Alina had n't come out and the three of them had finally gone into the building , it was to find incomprehension from the woman who lived alone and an empty flat where she said she 'd gone for help . |
| 17 | You would have thought some of them had n't eaten for days , but then perhaps they had n't . |
| 18 | They 'd all gone over the side , singing Johnny Lydon 's hit ‘ Who Do You Think You Are Kidding , Mr Galtieri , ’ and 98% of them had n't made it to the beaches . |
| 19 | We certainly felt , from all the staring faces that met us wherever we went , that many of them had n't seen any ‘ foreign friends ’ before . |
| 20 | They all gathered round to inspect the empty space where two of them had previously seen a box . |
| 21 | Some of them had previously experimented with fixed-term contracts but had found they imposed too much rigidity . |
| 22 | Floy said , very carefully , ‘ Could you show us the route ? ’ and Fenella looked up , as if , thought Caspar , she had heard something in Floy 's voice that the rest of them had not heard . |
| 23 | Most of them had not understood Blackberry 's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it . |
| 24 | Some of them had not attended school very regularly before . |
| 25 | Coordinators had to acquire skills in leadership and in handling people and ideas which the majority of them had not developed in their previous jobs . |
| 26 | They were the nearest residents to the front line and most of them had not dared to walk down the boulevard for more than a year . |
| 27 | On the contrary , all kinds of groups and associations representing ideas of this kind had come into existence in the USSR : some of them had openly called for ‘ power-sharing ’ on the basis of a ‘ parliamentary regime ’ , for ‘ free trade unions ’ , ‘ autonomous publishing houses ’ and so forth . |
| 28 | Years later one of Cahiers ' most influential critics , Jean-Luc Godard , admitted that none of them had really believed in the theory , but had used it to draw attention to themselves . |
| 29 | Like the Americans , many of them had never crossed the Channel for pleasure before . |
| 30 | There were about two hundred and fifty cadets in residence and some of them had never seen cadets from another corps . |