Example sentences of "of they [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them died in the onslaught which followed , their historic city completely destroyed . |
| 2 | The king did not lack military resources , but they were useless if the men who were placed in command of them defected to the enemy . |
| 3 | In a silence vibrating with silent accusation the three of them filed through the gap in the croton hedge . |
| 4 | Both of them looked at the stain on the carpet in silence . |
| 5 | That was how many of them got into the peep shows , selling off their self-respect in order to finance their habit . |
| 6 | He 'd caught a glimpse of the two of them reflected in the hall mirror and his heart had lurched because it looked as if he was propping up a corpse . |
| 7 | Early reports suggested that few of them knew about the registration process because the government 's public information had been put out on a Friday , the first day of the Kuwaiti weekend . |
| 8 | The three of them rode to the bank of the river , dismounted , then slipped quickly through the underbrush . |
| 9 | ‘ What do you know best ? ’ she asked , slipping her arm round Beth 's slim waist as the two of them sauntered to the door . |
| 10 | The three of them stared into the night and Charlie wondered if there was yet another German out there , rifle cocked , waiting . |
| 11 | One of them remarked on the scent . ’ |
| 12 | The men drank beer from the bottles , and one of them passed round the cigarettes he had bought on the flight , and the blond girl contributed a half-bottle of Stock brandy . |
| 13 | Very few women took part in training , which was surprising when one considers how important a part many of them played on the farm . |
| 14 | One of them glanced towards the town ; his eyes rested , briefly and incuriously , on Oliver . |
| 15 | He came back to school after Christmas with 4 of them stuffed in the back of his mini and it just went from there . |
| 16 | Some of them hankered after the company of women , had wives in all but name , and found pleasure in fashionable clothing , drink , revelry and hunting . |
| 17 | It is interesting to note that , although Sylvia was able to recall the events of that fateful afternoon and to describe in great detail the sights , sounds and emotions which prevailed , she had no idea at all of how long the two of them lay on the ground before her mother regained consciousness . |
| 18 | Nearly all of them lay in the Ruhr and Silesia ; those in the latter area were to become more and more important because of the ease with which they could be worked and the quality of Lower Silesian coking coal . |
| 19 | Matilda took the knife she had been eating with , and all four of them crept towards the dining-room door , the father keeping well behind the others . |
| 20 | She took the flower-filled trug from Dr Neil , admired the blooms , adding briskly , ‘ Come along , McAllister ; you might as well make up for lost time , ’ and all three of them walked into the parlour , Matey and McAllister of necessity , since it was their only indoor access to the kitchen . |
| 21 | Take a drive in the country during the hedgehog season and you will see the remains of thousands of them splattered across the roads . |
| 22 | The charges focused on events at Lurigancho prison , where 124 inmates died — 89 of them shot in the head — after they had surrendered , according to an investigation by Peru 's Congress . |
| 23 | Corbett thought it was mere drunken bravado when one of them lunged across the table and uproar ensued as food , cups and flagons of wine and ale were sent sprawling . |
| 24 | The three of them returned to the car . |
| 25 | Then the pair of them returned to the place of the burnt-out patch and in the relative safety of that refuge huddled there as the bush fire swept down on them . |
| 26 | The horse stamped anxiously as stones were dislodged , but instinct kept him still and soon Felipe was beside Maggie , both of them pressed to the edge of the cliff . |
| 27 | This unexpected obscenity drew gasps of astonishment from the teenagers , and Loretta pressed home her advantage by threatening dire penalties in colloquial Italian if a single one of them misbehaved during the remainder of the journey . |
| 28 | One of them reached over the moat to wrench hunks out of the hedge : I jumped backwards when the great muddy wrinkled trunk came swinging over , but Vern did n't , he just went on standing there , staring . |
| 29 | So when I got there , it 's the swimming coach there and a uniformed inspector and a particular individual who came from Cambridge University ( quite a few of them came into the force at that time — in 1932 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ What do you want ? ’ shouted a frightened Goodenache as the two of them came into the room . |