Example sentences of "of they were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty per cent of them were aged 7 when first abused , 40% were 12 or 13 at the time . |
| 2 | She slid them up and down her fingers , suddenly remembering that the five of them were worth nearly twenty thousand pounds . |
| 3 | But we could find that all of them were worth doing and then we would have to consider comparative advantages . |
| 4 | The two of them were at the bottom of Heymouth Brae where official transport was ferrying people up and down , and to and from the railway station . |
| 5 | What White and Bernard also omit to make clear is that , while the great majority of the ordinary members of the church may well have been largely indifferent to theological issues , many of them were at the same time both outraged and alarmed by a number of alien liturgical practices , which were a unique and highly visible feature of English Arminianism . |
| 6 | He had not expected that they would be worshipped like gods , but on a world where technological ability excited only minimal interest , all of them were at a considerable disadvantage until they were able to prove themselves against local standards of performance . |
| 7 | Erm non runners , non runners there were three in so far , two of them were at Cheltenham . |
| 8 | ’ Once we had this dance troupe on called Grand Slam , who appeared in leather G-strings and bras , despite the fact that all four of them were at least two stone overweight . |
| 9 | Leonora also did the cooking when the two of them were at home , but Elise was often out dining with someone , or in Stratford at the theatre with someone else . |
| 10 | The evocative China Heart , with its shifting layers of sound and teasing instrumental textures jumping dramatically into a demented tango , remained the best of the songs but none of them were at all suited to Fionna Duncan 's voice or delivery . |
| 11 | This was made easier by the fact that all the Imperial residences , with the exception of the small Villa Eugénie at Biarritz , were within easy reach of Paris and all of them were on a direct railway line to the capital . |
| 12 | British Tommies were helping to restore order and a small patrol of them were on duty at the crossing of Commissioner and Pagoda Roads when a busload of young ruffians armed with sticks and dahs came tearing into the city . |
| 13 | The girls said some of them were on the pill , others were n't because their mams and dads do n't know and they dare n't go to the family planning clinic . |
| 14 | He would never forget how Samuel Reichmann and his partner , Emmanuel Hollander , had been fined for trading with the Germans by the Jewish Court of Tangier , and how one or both of them were on the blacklist of the British Consulate . |
| 15 | Before he could rise to defend himself , four of them were on him with their clubs , battering the life from his body . |
| 16 | Most of them were on the lean side because of the hard life they led and the long walks they took over hilly country to reach their fields . |
| 17 | if both of them were on the same level there would be no falls , there would be no power . |
| 18 | Over 35,000 of them were on sandwich courses and over 13,000 were part-time . |
| 19 | Surprisingly , most of them were on his own front-bench . |
| 20 | It 's like all the , you know , the office , and they said all of them were on the opening today , all , all the stores . |
| 21 | The better of them were for viola alone , including Brian Cherney 's Shekhinah , in its first performance : this alternates furious tremolando , sudden violent attack , and wistful melody , invented or quoted . |
| 22 | Just inside the hallway , behind the speaker grille and the numbered bell-pushes , there was a shelf with a few pieces of mail ; a couple of them were for Carson but they were junk mail , expensive waste paper from a motoring organisation . |
| 23 | Both of them were for a free market , the introduction of Lithuania 's own currency and withdrawal of Russian troops . |
| 24 | If we count cities of over 500,000 inhabitants as ‘ big ’ , fourteen out of twenty-three of them were to be found in five countries , the United Kingdom ( 6 ) , Germany ( 3 ) , France ( 3 ) , Belgium ( 1 ) and Holland ( 1 ) . |
| 25 | In his evidence to the Committee , Keynes identified seven possible classes of remedy for depression , and assured his colleagues that practically all of them were of some value . |
| 26 | Some of them were of course , he reflected , little better : actors , journalists , bank clerks … |
| 27 | They were exquisitely painted ; almost all of them were of women . |
| 28 | They certainly performed the other functions of the chapel of the contemporary kings of Germany ; and it is doubtless significant that some of them were of German origin . |
| 29 | To take just one instance , most of them were of an age to lose brothers , fathers , husbands or the chance of marriage during the Great War , |
| 30 | And I can get round to doing that this week , I started trying on Friday but most of them were of course hitting the road . |