Example sentences of "of they [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are several more railway journeys in the novel , and the passengers seem happy enough ; at least , none of them howls with boredom like a neglected dog . |
| 2 | For all of them limits to possible action were set by economic , social , political or military necessities which were in the main the legacy of the past . |
| 3 | Do you know a lot of them girls at work pay twenty five and thirty pound a week board ? |
| 4 | Like one of them girls on the adverts ! |
| 5 | Amis 's Lucky Jim is something other ; so is William Cooper 's Struggles of Albert Woods ( 1952 ) , written in slapstick vein by a follower of Snow 's ; so is Angus Wilson 's Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ( 1956 ) and a fistful of novels soon after by David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury , both of them professors of English in civic universities . |
| 6 | Thus he incorporates a disposable debate between Dickens , Chatterton , Wilde and T. S. Eliot , all of them members of the Ackroyd stable . |
| 7 | In Marrakesh there were work stoppages by post office and junior government clerks , many of them members of the islamic Youth Movement , Wall posters denounced Hassan with a clever play on words : " LE CHIEN RECOIT LE CHAT " ( The dog welcomes the cat-chat sounding very like Shah ) . |
| 8 | El-Jorr was Hurley 's principal link to a network of DEA informants/CIA ‘ assets ’ in Lebanon , many of them members of the warring clans of the pro-Syrian Kabbaras and the anti-Syrian Jafaars in the Bekaa Valley . |
| 9 | As a consequence , the exhibition programme has expanded considerably and 9000 visitors — about 20 per cent of them members of the public — visited the Santiago Calatrava exhibition in the Autumn . |
| 10 | Among those detained in a wave of arrests , according to reports on Nov. 13 , were three former ministers in the Mahdi government [ see p. 36418 ] , Salah Abd al-Salam al-Khalifa , Omar Nour el-Daim and Bakri Ahmed Adil , all of them members of the Umma party whose fundamentalist wing was still represented in the Bashir regime . |
| 11 | At the May 22 press conference Interior Minister Abdullah Kallal said that almost 300 people — about 100 of them members of the armed forces — had been arrested over recent weeks in connection with a coup plot directed by Ghannouchi . |
| 12 | Seven hundred boys , almost a third of them sons of the clergy , lived their ‘ ultra-Spartan ’ lives in an institution which combined frequently brutal discipline with a consistently meagre diet . |
| 13 | The largest of them lives in the rivers of Japan . |
| 14 | Can you put some of them scraps in it ? |
| 15 | If firms agree to set outputs or prices which give them higher profits than those they would earn in a one-shot NE , and one of them reneges on this agreement , then in the following period(s) punitive actions can be undertaken , for example a price war , to wipe out the gains from the deviation . |
| 16 | Most of the guns , however , were at least 40 years old , some of them relics from the Boer War . |
| 17 | The smell of them lies on my stomach now , ’ and she glared at Midnight . |
| 18 | In reality , as General Konstantyn Morozov , Ukraine 's capable minister of defence , admitted recently , control of them lies with Russia . |
| 19 | But such criticisms were rebutted this week by Selina herself with the simple argument that whatever her talents are , one of them lies in getting people to watch her on the television . |
| 20 | But MPs take it very seriously when one of them lies in the Commons . |
| 21 | The distinction between public and private spheres of existence has been used for centuries to exclude women from the activities through which larger social processes are effected ; it has made of them goods to be protected , the stakes for which wars are fought by men . |
| 22 | But one day at the club when he trotted out this phrase during some heated discussion in the midst of a little group of members ( all of them persons of some consequence ) , Nicholas Stavrogin who was standing to one side alone and unnoticed , suddenly went up to Mr Gaganov and , taking him unexpectedly and firmly with two fingers by the nose , managed to drag him two or three steps across the room . |
| 23 | ‘ They lives in one of them cottages with the straw rooves . |
| 24 | ‘ That was not at all what I had in mind for you , ’ he said , pouring the three of them glasses of champagne . |
| 25 | Sir , — I am the General Secretary of The Bankruptcy Association of Great Britain and Ireland and I am writing to express my continuing concern over the catastrophic numbers of people going bankrupt in business — many of them businesses of long standing . |
| 26 | I made a number of valuable contacts , and was able to renew my acquaintance with seven graduates of the M.A. course at Lancaster ( four of them teachers at the CIEFL ) . |
| 27 | Three women two of them housewives with children have already joined the ranks of the firefighters in Cheshire . |
| 28 | There are people to see at the Embassy , a number of them friends of mine . |
| 29 | One of them things for the plant or for the |
| 30 | I 've got some of them things for |