Example sentences of "of [pron] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a contentious issue and was generally seen as an attempt by the party 's left wing to try to remove some Labour members of whom they disapproved . |
| 2 | They arrive early and leave late , have formed excellent relationships with pupils ( most of whom they know by name ) , staff and kitchen staff . |
| 3 | At Ellon , where the modern road forks right over the bridge on the A92 , and a pretty walk runs along by the river Ythan , the landlady of an inn where they breakfasted wished she had remembered to show to this great doctor ( of whom they had heard ) a child of hers with a chronic lump in his throat . |
| 4 | I find it surprising that Opposition Front-Bench spokesmen wish to exclude spouses because of whom they happen to be married to when they have good records of public service . |
| 5 | As for patients , most are satisfied by all aspects of emergency consultations with deputising service doctors , most of whom they do not know . |
| 6 | How can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard ? |
| 7 | Smith devoted some space to explaining how , imbued with martial spirit , yeomen followed the lords of whom they held their land to war , serving on foot as archers . |
| 8 | Who were these actors and actresses of whom they spoke ? |
| 9 | Because they were overthrown and the others were taken off into captivity into battle life , and what a life they had , the one of slavery , so at that time because they took no note , because they were destiny instructions to Jehovah for his word and again want to see , they had eyes , but they just did n't want to see it they knew , all the whys and wherefores and what the responsibilities were , but they did n't measure up to them and because of that many of them lost their lives , and if they did n't they were taken into captivity , Jeremiah four , in verse twenty two , again another prophecy sent to them exactly over the same message , the same reasons describes to them as being a , er people that is foolish and of me they have taken no notice Jeremiah four and verse twenty two . |
| 10 | Even in front of me they did it . |
| 11 | It is n't at all nice of me , thought Lydia , and they wo n't be pleased , but they 'll come from curiosity and snobbery , since although they do n't approve of me they think I 'm rather posh . |
| 12 | ‘ So , about the only thing we do have in common is … ’ she said , and hesitated as though she could think of nothing they shared . |
| 13 | Both maids came out , and although there were only two of them they seemed to surround and overwhelm her , not threateningly , but eagerly as though she brought gifts . |
| 14 | She had fur-backed gloves and high brown-polished boots , not shoes but boots , and from what she could see of them they looked serviceable , as if they really were worn for walking . |
| 15 | And one of them they says , well when we get new arrivals in we sedate them ! |
| 16 | They were in desks , you had a long desk that took Now some of them they took five on the one the one desk , you see ? |
| 17 | Well we went to one of them they went to one of them there . |
| 18 | Or some of them they cut the whole floor out and weld a new take the floor old car and weld it back in again . |
| 19 | If I hold on to these things they go , and if I let go of them they go , and so my life goes . |
| 20 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 21 | Susan was beginning , when just ahead of them they saw a little thatched inn and outside it a big wooden board on which was painted a half-moon . |
| 22 | They had not gone very far when a great brightness showed over the mountains beyond the forest , and suddenly in front of them they saw a beautiful young man , all dressed in gold , with a scarlet lining to his cloak . |
| 23 | They went on a little farther , and ahead of them they saw a village . |
| 24 | A pundit of the Electoral Reform Society , noting that the French Socialist manifesto produced for the 1981 general election envisaged twenty-one separate reforms , has claimed that the STV would have enabled voters to show which of them they approved of . |
| 25 | Al , although some of them they do them in German |
| 26 | But some of them they do put on I do n't think are worth putting on at all ! |
| 27 | Some of those waves at the bottom of the world — I mean you can tell by the look of them they have come from the beginnings of time and will roll right over you and go on rolling for ever . |
| 28 | Between all four of them they have almost 100 years service . |
| 29 | you know er some of them they did a five piece jigsaw easter egg things that when they take them and an envelope to send them off to put it in , so when they take it home and fit it together it says happy easter . |
| 30 | The Stuarts liked using charters as a way to give royal encouragement of development and enterprise , as was shown by the large number of them they issued to trading companies and to colonies , including some like Rhode Island and Connecticut which they could not have found politically very sympathetic . |