Example sentences of "of [pers pn] have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ About two-thirds of them had already broken into the European market , particularly France , but were seeking new outlets : the rest were starting from scratch . ’ |
| 2 | Although most existing powers and responsibilities over the delivery of health services and the production of utilities , such as electricity and gas , were effectively removed by post-war nationalization , within the welfare state the role of councils was substantially increased , building on responsibilities some of them had already claimed in the inter-war period . |
| 3 | He and Fonda retired to their trailer , smoked some marijuana and then came out and told the crowd of local youths that they should imagine that the two of them had just arrived in town , and , on the way , they had picked up a local girl of fifteen , and raped and left her in the bushes . |
| 4 | He knew that he 'd been close , but then somehow it had all slipped away from him ; when Alina had n't come out and the three of them had finally gone into the building , it was to find incomprehension from the woman who lived alone and an empty flat where she said she 'd gone for help . |
| 5 | Some of them had previously experimented with fixed-term contracts but had found they imposed too much rigidity . |
| 6 | On the contrary , all kinds of groups and associations representing ideas of this kind had come into existence in the USSR : some of them had openly called for ‘ power-sharing ’ on the basis of a ‘ parliamentary regime ’ , for ‘ free trade unions ’ , ‘ autonomous publishing houses ’ and so forth . |
| 7 | Years later one of Cahiers ' most influential critics , Jean-Luc Godard , admitted that none of them had really believed in the theory , but had used it to draw attention to themselves . |
| 8 | She could hear the rising engine-note of the Corporation buses as they pulled away from the stop at the corner , coming from nowhere either of them had ever heard of , going on through the gathering winter dusk to destinations equally obscure . |
| 9 | Some of her friends had fairly eccentric ideas of bed-sitter decoration , and had done far better than the Chianti-bottle , British Railway-poster effort , but none of them had ever conceived of anything like this : and the nicest room she had ever seen had been the drawing room of a friend 's mother in Sevenoaks , which had been distinguished by a bare and gentle colour scheme , and some pretty Georgian furniture . |
| 10 | He hardly knew Tina 's brothers but neither of them had ever objected to him before . |
| 11 | ‘ But people I speak to over there have very little to say about Neil Kinnock and none of them have even heard of Paddy Ashdown . ’ |
| 12 | Most of which I know some of them have already come to an end like Julie 's E S |
| 13 | This is to be a longer and harder fight than any of them have ever witnessed at Sinatra 's or the Rainbow or any one of dozens of warehouses and car parks . |
| 14 | So a lot of them have never played at Twickenham and that 's a big incentive for them together . |
| 15 | Many of them have never acted before and came thick and fast to auditions with high hopes for a moment 's glory on ’ Inspector Morse . ’ |
| 16 | round to architects just sort of provoking the question cos they , a lot of them have never thought about it |
| 17 | demanding to know the date of the party — which was unanswerable , since no one knew when Karl would be back from Dresden — and either confirming that , anyway , if it was to be on a week-end they would be resent — or not Frau Nordern was annoyed b the refusals but Herr Nordern had a drier view ‘ Most of them have hardly heard of Karl , ’ he said ‘ and anyway it is n't everyone who wants to be seen meeting … . |
| 18 | ‘ Anyway , it amazes me that none of you has apparently thought of comparing the print-outs of yesterday with today 's work . |
| 19 | Many of you have already sent in details about individual classes but it would be helpful if you could use this form now . |
| 20 | Most of you have probably come across the saying , the whole is greater than the sum of its parts . |
| 21 | Hands up how many of you have ever heard of a flotation tank ? |
| 22 | I do n't know whether any of you have ever prayed in this way before but it is a silent way of praying . |
| 23 | What little remained of it had never rejoiced in the calm self-assurance of the French , who had equated their race with civilization . |
| 24 | First it was a little bit of yellow fish for her landlady 's cat — the poor thing was half starved — then it was a bulb for her bedside lamp , and lastly she remembered that a friend of hers had just opened in a play in Manchester and there just might be a review in the evening paper . |
| 25 | Everything was very hush-hush , and it was not until it was over that the name of the target was made common knowledge — not that it would have been of any interest to us if we had known beforehand , because none of us had ever heard of it . |
| 26 | Andy Peart risks rectal ructions to find out that it 's only genial John Peel , ‘ that bloke ’ from the radio with a million of records that none of us have ever heard of … |
| 27 | Andy Peart risks rectal ructions to find out that it 's only genial John Peel , ‘ that bloke ’ from the radio with a million of records that none of us have ever heard of … |
| 28 | None of us have ever forgotten about that , you know . ’ |
| 29 | Because you can never go back to yesterday , if you came in last year or five years ago , ten years ago or longer , some of you have been in the truth for many , many years and it is nearer now than it ever was when you first came along and joined Jehovah 's people and as it says the night is well along and if any of us have ever worked on the night shift , I think we 're all well aware are n't we that when the night is well along and |
| 30 | They have stories that need telling as opposed to a plot that most of us have never heard before and which make us feel uncomfortable . |