Example sentences of "of them [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One 's pushing it over and the other one 's pulling it back , oh there is n't enough of them around as it is he 's late is n't he ? |
| 32 | The Patrician rolled one of them around in his thick fingers . |
| 33 | There 's a there 's a few of them around in London . |
| 34 | She washed a Cos lettuce , leaf by leaf , then patted each of them carefully with a tea towel . |
| 35 | There is a whole rack of cereals there , surely there 's one of them somewhere along that line that you like . |
| 36 | ‘ I 've stopped 13 opponents and dropped most of them cleanly with quick counters and that will be Benn 's downfall , ’ continued Piper . |
| 37 | ‘ I do not like … ’ she whispered in a voice so quiet that it brought both of them lower in their cages to get nearer to her , the argument between them forgotten , ‘ … |
| 38 | The relaxation of the censorship which was one of his first actions after the death of his mother meant that in 1780–81 an extraordinary flood of pamphlets ( many of them admittedly on very trivial subjects ) engulfed Vienna . |
| 39 | A great cultural movement like the twelfth-century Renaissance can not be explained in simple terms : the influences and the inspiration which created it flowed through many channels , some of them deep beneath the ground . |
| 40 | Only Preston managed to save its commons from the vultures , and to transform some of them eventually into public parks . |
| 41 | Thus , his primary task is to serve dependent UK plants of ICI , most of them either on Teesside or in north-west England which is linked to the former by pipeline . |
| 42 | In the ensuing panic zebras run in all directions , many of them right into the paws and jaws of another waiting lioness . |
| 43 | So we looked around and there was erm a box full of them right up high , yeah ? |
| 44 | The paper bag slipped , she grabbed it and it tore open at the bottom , spilling its contents onto the empty teacups near Miss Angus and turning some of them over with an attention-drawing rattle . |
| 45 | I think I saw one of them over at it . |
| 46 | Dista handed some of them over to the CSM in October , four months later . |
| 47 | They do it in and up the road in Peterborough they 've got about thirty eight community centre and the labour run council there is handing every one , every one of them over to the local communities . |
| 48 | ‘ God , that would turn a few of them over in their graves up there under the yew trees , ’ Benny 's father had said , but again there was no explanation of why . |
| 49 | I gave one of them away to the . |
| 50 | There is undoubtedly some truth in this ; the nobility frequently sent proxies to parliament in these years ; they were too preoccupied with war to have any reason for opposing the king in parliament , and their independent campaigns on the continent took some of them away from England for several years at a time . |
| 51 | Instead there was simply a series of holiday encounters of a strange kind — nearly all of them away from Roundhay . |
| 52 | When industries were first nationalized , many of them immediately after the Second World War , the government had two concerns . |
| 53 | Why do we so seldom hear any of them apart from No. 2 in the concert hall ? ( ) |
| 54 | It was too late for any of them apart from the Asian couple . |
| 55 | " Our arguments are terribly electric , we come out of them sometimes with our heads as exhausted as an electric battery after it has run down . " |
| 56 | The power of the platform 's weapons and the threat they posed was enough to give anyone pause for thought , but now they appeared somehow more lethal because they were unseen — concealed behind gunports which had been engineered to such fine tolerances that Rostov could detect no hint of them anywhere on the curved metal skin . |
| 57 | One day , much to Dustin 's irritation , she asked the driver of the limo that was taking the two of them back to Manhattan to stop because she saw a wishing star in the sky . |
| 58 | The argument goes that if we had short-range nuclear weapons at the front , in the event of a rapid advance there would always be the danger that a commander would have no choice but to use those weapons , either because he could not get rid of them back to headquarters , or perhaps to start a nuclear conflagration . |
| 59 | In turn I took some of them back with me to Cliff Top . |
| 60 | I 've put one of them back into the sale this week . |