Example sentences of "of they have [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The headlines included a row between two Conservative MPs over remarks one of them had made about the weight of the Princess of Wales , an attack on the Prime Minister by a junior bishop in the Church of England , a house fire in Cardiff , and the discovery of a woman 's body in South London . |
| 2 | None of them had heard about the recall . |
| 3 | They all belonged to golf clubs or sailing clubs , took their holidays abroad , and were devoted Masons ; two of them had stood for the local council . |
| 4 | A spokesman for the health authority said only eight mothers were believed to be at risk of infection and not all of them had asked for an AIDS test . |
| 5 | More especially , I wondered at their risk when I learnt that some of them had landed across the Channel and were astonished to find that the natives did not speak English . |
| 6 | Ten of them had landed on the burnt-out branches of the witch trees and were silhouetted against the fiery red death . |
| 7 | On the other hand the number of university graduates greatly increased : many of them had served in the forces , usually as officers , and several had been temporary civil servants . |
| 8 | A couple of them had ridden in the Moon Beach chapter together . |
| 9 | Bearing in mind that they 're only six and seven in my class , er , and then talking erm , about how they travelled in cars , and and how many of them had ridden in the front seat , er , and most of them put their hands up , and I mean , the recommendation is that if you 're under twelve years of age , you should never ride in the front seat , and so on and so forth . |
| 10 | They used the skills acquired during the social science degree courses many of them had followed in the early 1970s to scrutinize rule books and exploit every line and loophole in their favour . |
| 11 | After their release they said that they had been " kidnapped " by the authorities after two of them had written to the King warning of a plot by Col. Ahmed Dlimi , then one of his key advisers . |
| 12 | And then one of them had rushed to the truck and talked into a machine on a string . |
| 13 | The partisans showed great courage , but some of them had to withdraw from the Parma Apennines down towards Tuscany . |
| 14 | But if the two of them had come by a windfall of some sort , she was n't going to ask questions about it . |
| 15 | Mind you , a lot of them had come from the army and from the navy — but I do n't think that makes man 's nature alter to that effect . |
| 16 | A moment later the two of them had disappeared into the house , leaving me standing there in the sunshine , feeling suddenly weak at the knees . |
| 17 | Although many of them had starved in the past and were therefore well equipped to recognize starvation now that they had met it again . |
| 18 | The men asked some very technical questions and during conversation it turned out that one of them had worked on the construction of the Visitors ’ Centre and another had been employed on the construction of one of the Scottish nuclear power stations . ’ |
| 19 | More than two-fifths of them had worked in the company for at least thirty years . |
| 20 | John Hales of Coventry , a bitter opponent of enclosures , wrote in 1549 that the bulk of them had occurred before the accession of Henry VII , and the Italian historian Polydore Vergil ( probably writing about 1530 ) , said of the proceedings of 1517 , that for half a century or more previously , sheep-farming nobles had tried to find devices to increase the income of their lands , and that to this end they had destroyed dwelling-houses and filled up the land with animals . |
| 21 | Shiona would never forget the next few minutes when the two of them had arrived in the big sunny sitting-room . |
| 22 | In 1990 , BP Chemicals had a total of nearly 20,500 employees worldwide , but 3,500 of them had left by the end of 1992 . |
| 23 | If one of them had tunnelled into a snowdrift , his ski-sticks unfindable , another had slipped and was dangling over the edge of a snow-capped tunnel . |
| 24 | Pete was remembering the night — it seemed like years ago , but it was n't so long — that the three of them had sat in the Zodiac down in the workshop and Wayne had made some gentle fun of Pete 's funeral suit . |
| 25 | One of them has escaped from a particularly unusual commitment — he was once an angel , but has chosen to become a human being , for the love of humanity . |
| 26 | Kendalians were described , a population of 8,000 as ‘ a frugal , industrious people , and many of them have risen to a considerable degree of opulence by their assiduous attention to business . ’ |
| 27 | As a result , many of them have fallen by the wayside or have been merged . |
| 28 | Because crime short stories have continued to be written and some of the very best of them have appeared in the Television Age . |
| 29 | All 50 of Marot 's were set by Certon ( Paris , 1546 ) though only 13 of them have survived in a transcription for voice and lute by Guillaume Morlaye published in 1555 . |
| 30 | Many of them have come to the conclusion that the role and atmosphere of the station large and small is essentially ecclesiastical . |