Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | It was not a well-attended affair — perhaps fifteen people , mainly old women , at the church , few of whom came on to the cemetery . |
2 | which I think there were four competitors , one of whom got through to the district final and eventually to the national final that John is going to on Saturday . |
3 | It 's just I like to know where I stand and which bit of me to tense up before the rubber truncheon lands . |
4 | In Philip Burton 's version , from then on , all was sweetness ; Richard occasionally went back to the house of Cis and Elfed ( on Sunday mornings ) and the two of them got on with the transformation of the street boy into the stage man . |
5 | Both of them got out on the restaurant floor , but Pavel carried on down to the entrance lobby . |
6 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
7 | But today there was the picnic , and who could tell what would happen once the four of them got in amongst the pine coverts of Ham Park . |
8 | Even when I eavesdrop I hear nothing but sex , thought Pascoe watching the four of them disappear out of the bar . |
9 | For a moment Trent thought of letting the whole damn lot of them go up on the reef . |
10 | None of the Indian girls complain , because they are afraid of being beaten up , so none of them go up to the headmaster and complain . |
11 | Well anyway , it reaches night and the three of them go down into the attic . |
12 | And the Relief Committee and the Board of Works inspector upstairs — four of them go out on the balcony , and there was a silence would have lifted off your hat . |
13 | They managed to get some ones on the sea , but they did have a try erm a lot of them come up with the erm barking up the wrong tree said the dog , you know , things like that with a bit of help . |
14 | The company participates in nearly a score of such ventures , some of them dating back to the 1930s . |
15 | Many of them grew up during the student revolution of the 1960s when an extraordinary hostility to wealth , power and respectability came to dominate a generation . |
16 | There was no one at the pumping station in the Old Town , so the two of them headed back through the dockside streets to find out what was happening . |
17 | Nkrumah dealt with the rebels by expelling 81 CPP members ; many of them drifted over to the NPP . |
18 | The three of them walked back to the village . |
19 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
20 | Dzerzhinsky discovered 2,583 unused railway-trucks there ( some of them sent on from the Volga and dumped , as has been seen ) . |
21 | A good many boys and girls had joined the crowd now and shouts of laughter broke out as a few of them came out from the gate in the kitchen-garden wall , their hands full of ripe peaches , their chins dripping with juice . |
22 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
23 | All the ages of man and all the races of Islam seemed to be represented : mustachioed Arabs , dark-skinned Somalis , small South Indians in lungis , huge Delhi businessmen bulging out of their pyjamas , prodigiously bearded Afghans swathed in shawls like Old Testament prophets — all of them surging up through the Meena Bazaar towards the Jama Masjid steps . |
24 | They leaned close momentarily then began to come forward again , slowly , looking about them , the first of them pointing up at the ruined monastery . |
25 | Mind , she did n't go out this afternoon cos they went , some of them went up to the British Legion Club this afternoon . |
26 | ‘ A lot of them look up to the likes of Johnny Marr and say : ‘ That 's what I want to sound like ! ’ |
27 | No , the , the , the extension of them going up for the cup and all , that 's what it was . |
28 | But most of them finish up against the scaffolding . |
29 | ‘ Most of them finish up against the bridge these days , apparently . ’ |
30 | The two of them galloped off down the steep grass bank . |