Example sentences of "of they [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them died soon afterwards ; and the other one — I saw it myself-was so bad and its head so swollen up with the stings that it had to be supported in its stable by a kind of sling fixed to the roof . ’ |
| 2 | Many of them died triumphantly . |
| 3 | One of them died almost immediately ; its little body was dressed in a clean nightdress and linen cap and its arms were folded on its breast ; then it was taken at night to be buried . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , a couple of them died recently . |
| 5 | As they came , many of them spat repeatedly , leaving behind them a trail of crimson , betel-stained saliva on the burning concrete of the wharf . |
| 6 | This depends on such a multitude of variables ( all of them tested empirically ) that it warrants a book on its own . |
| 7 | But the ranks and clusters of them stretched uncountably into the darkness . |
| 8 | Neither of them slept particularly well that night . |
| 9 | The two of them slept deeply , unaware of the camera that had watched their silent lovemaking , the camera that was so small it could be hidden in the face of the heating control on the wall by the window . |
| 10 | Eventually , as the night air became too icy , the last of them filed inside , leaving Mark and me to our more frugal but more spacious bivouac on the terrace . |
| 11 | But none of them moved , and none of them looked away . |
| 12 | None of them looked particularly cheerful . |
| 13 | Most of them looked forward to an administrative career in the service of a lord , whether pope , king , bishop or earl . |
| 14 | Hannele pulled back , and both of them looked downwards . |
| 15 | Some of them looked only half-made . |
| 16 | Oh , some of them got quite rich . |
| 17 | ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could . |
| 18 | All of them got highly commended did n't they ? |
| 19 | The two of them ate well , but Charlotte could not face the meal . |
| 20 | The pups slithered out onto the weedy boulders , not forty feet from the cottage window , and waited expectantly until she reappeared carrying a sizeable fish , which the two of them ate together , wrestling over it among the sea-tangle . |
| 21 | For example , over half of the participants ( 56 per cent ) did not know how many beers they could drink before reaching the legal limit for driving and well over two-thirds of them knew neither how long it took for alcohol to be burned up by the body ( 71 per cent ) nor what , if anything , was an effective way of sobering up ( 71 per cent ) . |
| 22 | Each of the four was an experienced police frogman , and each of them knew exactly what he was looking for — knew indeed the exact dimensions of the object and the positioning of the three great ruby eyes once set into it . |
| 23 | ‘ She does n't get out much ’ , a phrase that Shirley had learned to use of her mother to forestall enquiry , impertinence , sympathy : a middle-aged phrase that she heard in her own voice as parody — indeed , she had noticed that when ‘ the family ’ gathered together all of them spoke in parodies of clichés , and some of them knew quite well that they were doing it . |
| 24 | They were going out into the world though none of them knew quite where until it was announced in public at their Commissioning Service it , the Albert Hall . |
| 25 | They argued ferociously about Ireland , although neither of them knew too much about it . |
| 26 | Ninety five per cent of those patients who developed adenocarcinoma in CLO smoked and half of them drank more than 40 units of alcohol per week representing a subgroup of patients with metaplastic CLO at increased risk . |
| 27 | Twenty or thirty of them swayed past in dignified convoy , followed by the farmer and a matted dog of uncertain ancestry . |
| 28 | ‘ It was so horrifying that one just went numb , ’ one of them said later . |
| 29 | Neither of them said much on the way . |
| 30 | All three of them stared silently at the walls . |