Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would be foolishly modest of me to say they will not be disappointed at all , ’ said Antony , ‘ but they are both very understanding . |
| 2 | I 've tried , I ca n't for the life of me remember them |
| 3 | Come Epiphany , she had grown too fond of them to take them down . |
| 4 | They bound and gagged two children and then forced one of them to take them to the money . |
| 5 | More than 90 per cent of them said they would support new legislation to ensure higher energy-efficiency standards in household appliances . |
| 6 | Thirty-one of my trial team had never previously attempted to slim yet 25 of them said they lost inches from areas they considered a real problem and particularly wanted to reduce . |
| 7 | I 'm in the process of trying to get someone to come in to do one evening girls ' assertiveness , you know which some of them said they 'd quite like to do . |
| 8 | So the letting officer from one of them said they 'd got a house for me . |
| 9 | A lot of them said they 'd seen Mrs Sugar , but none of them really had , and nobody believed them . |
| 10 | A lot of them said they 'd seen Mrs Sugar , but none of them really had , and nobody believed them . |
| 11 | ‘ It was important to involve our employees and one of the interesting factors to emerge was that 88.8 per cent of them said they would be proud to work for a company with an environmental policy . ’ |
| 12 | Mo most of them played they played well |
| 13 | Some of them pretend they 're the illegitimate sons of noblemen , and some of them pretend someone else did the murder . |
| 14 | Obviously most of them had them marked or had their name on them , so that they would have the same er the same set of tools every day . |
| 15 | When we heard of them last they were cutting down trees for them to feed upon which is very generally adopted . |
| 16 | ‘ The reaction from my clients and business contacts was tremendous — perhaps some of them wish they had done the same — and one senior partner from the Big Six wrote and told me that his mother had been a great friend of Lady Reading , the WRVS 's founder , and that until he was 15 he thought all women dressed in green ! ’ |
| 17 | And well they , some of them made them themselves , some of them , they were supplied by the merchant . |
| 18 | Hundreds of them thought they were dead , and fell down . |
| 19 | Launching a sugar plantation took a great deal of capital and the planters were always short of money ; many of them had bought estates at the high land prices of the boom , and most of them felt they owed it to themselves to live in a gentlemanly way that ignored debts . |
| 20 | You changed places one of them catch them . |
| 21 | But if either of them imagines they can force my hand , they much mistake the matter ! |
| 22 | Some constructors may , on affable evenings and in the afterglow of victory , admit that drivers are human beings ; most of them consider them as nothing better than servants . |
| 23 | And some of them think they 're gon na make money . |
| 24 | Moreover , although their new jobs were temporary , not all of them regarded them as a " stop-gap " . |
| 25 | Many of them say they 'd like rather more variety . |
| 26 | I do n't know , people l I 'm of them say they ca n't afford to pay the kids , and get the food for the kids , and they 'll have to give them chips a couple of , every day of the week or whatever , but th there 's no need for that . |
| 27 | Most of them say they 've learned from the experience . |
| 28 | ‘ Some of them say they have lost £1,000 in revenue since the scheme was implemented . ’ |
| 29 | The public are n't that stupid — it 's very insulting of them to imagine they are , in their pompous , intellectual way . |
| 30 | ‘ Stones have also been piled on top of them making them far more difficult to see . ’ |