Example sentences of "many of they by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's in close touch with his employees , knowing many of them by their first names . |
| 2 | Many of them by now had been in Malta for several months … and ever since Italy had entered into the war , these boys , often in obsolete aircraft , had carried out bravely and unquestioning , any task that they had been called upon to perform . |
| 3 | For much the same reason as suggested in the last paragraph , this seems a course of action which in practice would be ruled out for many of them by financial constraints : so again , for many , just wishful thinking . |
| 4 | Some 750 Brazilian street children ( believed to number up to 12,000,000 throughout the country ) went to Brasília in late September for a conference , at which they said 624 of their number had been murdered in the past 19 months , many of them by death squads . |
| 5 | At least 343 people were killed , many of them by buildings collapsing under the weight of rain-soaked ash and mud . |
| 6 | Far-reaching organisational changes were being forced upon many of them by the sheer growth of business , the sharpening of international rivalries and the accelerating pace of events . |