Example sentences of "of [pron] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who said of whom that they had ‘ stolen the sky and put up a sham sun ’ ? |
| 2 | The glory of victory , the bitterness of defeat , the sunny nature of everyone as they cross the bridge into the magic world for a few hours on a frosty January day . |
| 3 | I 'm a bit worried at some of what is saying here erm , which seems to me like wanting to er create bureaucratic structure within a parish that , charts , positioning of everyone and they should know therefore , I just do n't think is , that 's my personal view , I do n't think it 's the right approach at all to a parish . |
| 4 | And making a fuss of me because they knew that my stitches had burst . |
| 5 | All the sounds of the valley end here in my room , and the women speak in front of me — of Hywel and Beuno and Elizabeth and me — and the men who work on the farm piss in the hedgerow in front of me because they all think I am dead . |
| 6 | They do n't taste of nothing if they 're capsules . |
| 7 | Sometimes after their formal prayers , which were said a minimum of five times a day , they continued to sit with their feet in front of them while they carried on long conversations with God . |
| 8 | Fortunately we know who they are after they land and next time ( You mean you do n't kick 27 Dulux shades of shite with a hint of peach out of them while they 're on the floor ? |
| 9 | Tundrish caught up with the two of them before they descended whether filled with an access of comradeliness , or leery of why they should seemingly wish to seclude themselves together , who could say ? |
| 10 | This was the first news I had had of them since they had left Maymyo a fortnight earlier . |
| 11 | I do n't see much of them unless they want something and they do n't see much of me . |
| 12 | Aidan was a better authority on women than any of the rest of them so they followed him willingly . |
| 13 | The airmail letters which he exchanges with his liberal friends in England tell a worse story of them than they do of him , and hark back in fine style to that golden time when such friends used to kneel in London mosques with Michael X and other celebrities , squinting up at the Heavyweight Champion of the World 's effulgent arse . |
| 14 | And we really need two men out there , but I ca n't ask more of them than they 're doing ; they 're making up for one short as it is . |
| 15 | It all seemed too large , too over-provided-for to feed them and the stunted attendants , even if there were a few more of them than they 'd seen until now ( and they were always complaining about being short-staffed , anyway ) . |
| 16 | As she said goodnight to them in turn she managed by some technique of charm or pure personality to convey to each of them that they were important to her in their own light . |
| 17 | Realizing the extent of the betrayal , it was clear to both of them that they could not hang around so close to the target area hoping for survivors . |
| 18 | ( Matthew says of them that they will sit on the twelve thrones of Israel , judging the twelve tribes . ) |
| 19 | those who have accepted the teachers ' view of them that they are thick and who see no point in pursuing any further academic work because of their acknowledged inability , and |
| 20 | It has become so much a part of them that they are often unaware of its existence . |
| 21 | Every one of them that they were gon na do next year . |
| 22 | Rounding up the elephants and trying to count them was a hellish job , much more difficult than anyone had foreseen because of the vast area , the confusing vegetation and terrain , and the impossibility of labelling the beasts or keeping track of them once they had been found and counted once . |
| 23 | They were usually billed as the star attraction so John obviously made a good profit out of them but they were still paid at the same rate as all his juveniles , five shillings a week . |
| 24 | There were not many of them but they made an impact on the Congress that was quite out of proportion to their small numbers . |
| 25 | I am not myself wholeheartedly committed to any of them but they deserve our attention . |
| 26 | Okay so they , they know what 's expected of them but they would without having had the practice or the experience |
| 27 | Only five of them but they were brilliant ! |
| 28 | In fact I 'll give my neighbours who live opposite , I do n't see a lot of them but they they are my opposite neighbours and of course the 's really I 'm on good terms with I ought to give them I 'll get them a tin of biscuits as well . |
| 29 | Then , when they were large enough , God brought them out and the mother took care of them until they grew big enough to take care of themselves . |
| 30 | Indeed , even Cabinet ministers may not hear of them until they are told on the morning of Budget day by the Chancellor . |