Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back at her flat , though , she made herself a cup of tea and was able to give her thoughts free rein — all of them centred on Naylor Massingham . |
| 2 | Badger gassing , the infallible and humane method of killing them recommended by Lord Zuckerman was stopped on the grounds that it was fallible and inhumane . |
| 3 | An average ant colony might use around 12 different types of signal , most of them conveyed by means of chemical ‘ pheromones ’ secreted on to the ground by various glands and then sniffed in the air by other ants . |
| 4 | Each one of them exterminated in Sobibor , the photograph fluttering into a pile of a thousand personal papers and documents with tens of thousands of spectacles and hundreds of thousands of shoes and boots — to be salvaged or burnt and either way lost for ever . |
| 5 | Conservationists have expressed concern over the future of Britain 's peatlands because a deal aimed at preserving them agreed in January 1992 [ see ED 55 ] has still not been signed and could be abandoned . |
| 6 | Five new in on 6th .. two of them piloted by Plt.Off . |
| 7 | They refused to leave on request and attempts to eject them failed on account of the sudden arrival of reinforcements from the local station . |
| 8 | They made little impact and at the end of the decade some of them resorted to terrorist attacks on senior officials in an effort to destabilize the government . |
| 9 | They erm well apparently he said a few of them got in trouble he said , and heads had to roll and one of them was his ! |
| 10 | How many of them led to changes in classroom practice ? |
| 11 | This convention retained something of the laconic style of drafting of its Latin American predecessors , and like them applied in principle to both the service of documents and the taking of evidence . |
| 12 | After some years the designs from the Empire influenced fashionable people in their taste , and Roman style bronze brooches and bangles , some of them made in Britain , were worn by the men and women of prosperous families . |
| 13 | Three of them charged towards Gallagher . |
| 14 | Most wore white masks and all of them bristled with equipment : fly whisks , cameras , binoculars , Walkmans , water bottles . |
| 15 | Through reading the Bible we discover fundamental truths about God , and see them demonstrated by events in the lives of his people which illuminate his character and illustrate his will for all men at all times . |
| 16 | Constitutions there have certain essential characteristics , none of them found in Britain . |
| 17 | Waist exercise 1 : keep your legs apart and raise both arms above your head , keeping them bent at 90° . |
| 18 | On the other hand , for all his ferocity in matters of principle , the archbishop was an aged and a sick man who had suffered too many humiliations and had offended too many of his fellow prelates in the 1290s and since to command strong support from them ; he was still unsure of papal backing for his measures , and indeed found them countermanded by Clement . |
| 19 | Lake Okeechobee is so full of nutrients , most of them traced to cow manure , that algae have all but suffocated it . |
| 20 | An eighth of them opted for friendship groups for at least part of the time , and a few grouped their pupils by age . |
| 21 | Letters from one of them told of Mohnyin , another BCMS centre , where the nurses from the Mandalay Children 's Hospital had settled . |
| 22 | He , after all , found her quite as repulsive as she found him and , as the two of them waltzed from oven to sink , from window to cutlery drawer , staring up , down , sideways , anywhere but at each other , Henry had always assumed that this was no more than the usual politesse of a failed English , suburban marriage . |
| 23 | They remember also that the Dominions came voluntarily to our aid in the two world wars : we would be in honour bound to do likewise if any of them came under threat . |
| 24 | one of them came on stage — he 'd probably done |
| 25 | All seven of them came for dinner . |
| 26 | Some of them came to Kufra , and a deputation of Zuwaya went out to meet them in the desert , inviting them to turn back . |
| 27 | Several of them came to London in order to discuss the possibilities of an armistice and ultimately of peace , but they could only meet junior officials from the Foreign Office and absolutely nothing transpired . |
| 28 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 29 | I 'm pleased to say that one of them came from Tommy Joy . |
| 30 | As a result , the whole area became silent , with all big and small trees dead , many of them burned by napalm and excavated by bombs . |