Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 Then some of them sat down on the sand and began to drink .
32 There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor .
33 Many of them live out in the provinces so we keep a good range of beers that include some from their part of the world , ’ explained Jim .
34 Billy took one of the baskets from Molly , and the three of them wandered on through the wood .
35 Jasper knelt up on the seats with the rest of them to observe out of the window their progress to Kensington High Street .
36 At luncheon all four of them fetched up in the saloon bar of The Rose and Crown .
37 The two of them leapt out of the beached cockboat and strode up past the fishwives , some of whom gave him a " good day " but most of whom preserved a surly silence .
38 The difference between the two of them showed up in The Waste , Land drafts .
39 They were beings like Miach , a crowd of them walking down to the shore from the forest .
40 Maisie pushed Robert towards the stairs , and the two of them moved down towards the crowded entrance hall .
41 Oh , he had them locked antler to antler now , two proud stags with lowered heads and rolling eyes , gathering their sinews for the thrust that should send one of them backing out of the contest .
42 The floor of his room was like a maze , with tower-blocks of books , whole walls of them set out on the thin carpet and holed linoleum so that only small corridors for him to walk in remained between them .
43 And somehow , he could n't imagine either of them coming around to the house for some beers and a pizza and a John Wayne movie on the video .
44 The three of them trooped out into the hallway .
45 They do not fly at ordinary room temperatures and they crawl only slowly , so there will not be much danger of them crawling out of the container and escaping .
46 And the two of them shuffling in with the hoods of their duffel coats over their heads and their school scarves pulled over noses and mouths like a pair of monks doing the rounds during the Black Death .
47 Progress charts are evident in all areas of the company , measuring quality improvements and waste reduction , many of them drawn up by the production staff .
48 He was an Edinburgh solicitor who had two houses , two cars and had commuted between two women before one of them found out about the other .
49 Most of them ended up in the Middle East with Layforce , and when that was broken up they attached themselves to Combined Operations in Alexandria .
50 It 's a good idea of yours to come out of the Rolls Royce while the going 's good .
51 Some people might say I do n't show any emotion but every time a goal went in there always seemed to be a picture of someone jumping up from the bench .
52 When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’
53 Considered as an institutional bridge , Schloss Hartheim was part of my winding down from the experience of the KZ .
54 I had , not here , but at home , a very awful experience of somebody camped on to the electricity board , because the power was off , and I was trying to ring them up , and you ca n't get through to somebody who 's camped on to them .
55 The Justice Model asserted two central principles , both of which harked back to the classicism of Beccaria .
56 Hockney has repaid the debt with numerous studies of Silver , two of which looked on among the gallery 's 100 Hockneys , ranging from a teenage pencil sketch to oils done last Christmas .
57 Above were three correspondingly small bedrooms , two of which looked out on the narrow and often gloomy street .
58 Although Cornwall was not the only county where nothing less than 40s. was reckoned as substance , the making of an independent return by each hundred resulted in five sets of officials taking different views of the native poor , the complement of which tapered off from the modest ( 15 per cent ) in the eastern parts to the negligible ( 0.4 per cent ) in the far west , balanced to some extent by aliens , who were classed as poor and accounted for one-eighth of this category , making Penwith the antithesis of East hundred , notwithstanding that many who were subsequently taxed in Kerrier hundred were passed over in 1522 .
59 Scott , Hogg , Lockhart and other literary stalwarts are reputed to have frequented this old hunting inn , part of which dates back to the 18th century .
60 These two executive/client spaces are supported by five white pre-cast columns , tow of which drive up through the room and terrace above .
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