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 .
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