Example sentences of "they [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what about er Notts County 's name in Italy because obviously it 's th it 's the first football club in the world and er if legend is correct then Juventus took their kit from Notts County strip being black and white stripe so had they heard of Notts County before ? |
| 2 | But the successful intervention of the communist Chinese in the Korean War proved to be the start of a period in which the British , while they clung of necessity to the Atlantic alliance , were often fearful of some impulsive or extreme action by the United States which would lead to an unnecessary intensification of East–West conflict and even , possibly , to the Third World War . |
| 3 | Carr , to his credit , never stopped coming forward and he caused Wharton many problems until the eighth round , but the Yorkshireman then delighted his home town supporters by producing the kind of punching power they expected of him . |
| 4 | Previously Manupur had been divided into a number of well-defined hereditary and hierarchically ordered groups or castes whose jobs , social status and economic relationships ( i.e. the share they got of their own and each other 's profits ) were pre-determined by tradition . |
| 5 | Labour 's ‘ radical ’ plans are to be welcomed for the vision they bring of the kind of urban public transport that is more or less taken for granted in western Europe . |
| 6 | Yet the 18 counties fight shy of the risk , but what are they frightened of ? |
| 7 | ‘ What are they frightened of ? ’ |
| 8 | If they really mean to improve transport in Scotland , why are they frightened of agreeing to the new clause ? |
| 9 | Thus the church added twelve through ‘ biological growth ’ as they became of age for church membership . |
| 10 | What would they make of her ? |
| 11 | So what did they make of these budget off-the-peg outfits which the rest of us wear every day ? |
| 12 | What will they make of the tips from the late 20th century ? |
| 13 | The rhetorical use they made of anthropologists ' ideas as a source for a criticism of the society of their time , especially as a criticism of the way institutions such as the family , marriage , and the status of women were seen as unchangeable and eternally fixed , is one which seems totally justified to present-day anthropologists . |
| 14 | She 'd come into the women 's group after the others had spent some time talking about their individual relations to femaleness ; feminism for her was a safe place , a rhetoric spoken to her by other women , a description they made of her , a set of ideas they had worked out and which she acquired to wear as a badge . |
| 15 | His method is to record what happens , over the course of sixty years of the narrator 's life , to the large group of people that he meets and meets again during this period ; what they made of themselves and what he made of them . |
| 16 | When the thunder and smoke of combat clears ( one wonders what they made of it , in the bakery below ) , this is how we find ourselves . |
| 17 | ‘ What a pigsty they made of it ! |
| 18 | But to sit here , like one of the effeminate fools smirking over there or , worse still , like Antonini and Ferrante and the others he 'd spotted , who boasted of the conquests they made of the long-legged girls who dreamed of jewels and furs and sold themselves so easily — to sit here , to even be in the same room with such men , made him feel filthy . |
| 19 | We asked Gloucester 's stamp collectors what they made of today 's break with tradition . |
| 20 | What they made of ? |
| 21 | And the kind of thing they made of course erm were just short moments of motion , short silent films which showed action which lasted about a minute . |
| 22 | But why , they asked of each other , should a child like that be under the care of the rag woman ? |
| 23 | I just did what they asked of me . ’ |
| 24 | No matter how much they eat of their current food , they just ca n't get enough energy from it . |
| 25 | " We can not close the report without mentioning the great satisfaction expressed by the Mayor and Corporation and Inhabitants of the Town of Stockport at the re-establishment of the School , and the high sense they entertained of the liberality and kindness of the Goldsmiths ' Company . " |
| 26 | She disliked the intimacy he showed towards some of them , was resentful of the memories they shared of which she was not a part , and felt excluded . |
| 27 | little erm you used be able to get I do n't know if you still can little wipes in little sachets and they smelled of this . |
| 28 | The rooms were cold and empty , and they smelled of dust and glue size . |
| 29 | For example , in a survey I carried out on the membership of the National Trust — one of the largest voluntary associations in Britain with over a million and a quarter members — it was decided that topics should include such things as how people came to join , how they felt about the payment of subscriptions , how much they read of the literature the Trust sent them , what their main interests in conservation were , how active a part they wanted to play in the work of the Trust , and so on . |
| 30 | Moving the suspension of standing orders at the next meeting of Cork County Council , Councillor Gene Fitzgerald TD complained that the first council members heard of the planning decision was when they read of it in the morning paper . |