Example sentences of "them were [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half of them were badly worn , everybody was open to erm , serious leg injuries |
| 2 | Some of them were closely connected with those already in existence but they also sprang from advances in science and technology . |
| 3 | Presumably , those who murdered them were also born with loyalties . |
| 4 | He wrote many articles and books and some of them were also translated into French . |
| 5 | And some of them were already quelling the fires on the landing-stages . |
| 6 | Both of them were already known for silences . |
| 7 | A number of them were largely built in the late Romanesque style and of these some survive in whole or in part . |
| 8 | The women reported other significant changes in their lives — by the end of the sessions , none of them were intentionally depriving themselves of food and all were eating regular meals . |
| 9 | All those positions were going for want of an application , so I applied and because brought in people who he knew , certain of them were automatically filled but they want the Chief Administration Officer , so I applied and really I do n't kid myself that I got it because of my qualification because I had n't got any letters after my name . |
| 10 | Fortunately for president Truman the American troops dispatched to stop them were officially declared a United Nations army engaged in a ‘ police action ’ to restore peace . |
| 11 | All of them were richly dressed , but it was their hair which attracted Rostov 's attention at once . |
| 12 | The three climbers who originally passed the message to them were eventually traced , and confirmed that not only had they informed the Guardia Civil in person on the 21st , but afterwards had phoned each day to see if Jeremy had been found . |
| 13 | Captain Lawton and his men seem to have had a fairly trouble-free time of it , because all 15 of them were duly discharged back in London after the seven-month voyage . |
| 14 | A century ago there were few professional scientists — and most of them were medically qualified . |
| 15 | According to Ali , the Ayasofya medrese was already a 60-akce medrese In Mehmed II 's time ; and it appears generally to have been the case that it and , from the time of Bayezid II , the medrese of Murad II in Bursa ( the Muradiye ) and , more particularly , that of Bayezid II himself in Edirne , completed in 893/1488 , ranked higher in the first half of the sixteenth century than the Sahn in the sense that the muderrises appointed to them were normally promoted from the Sahn . |
| 16 | Stamford is reputed to have several ancient tunnels , although after the Dissolution in 1539 many of them were either destroyed or blocked off . |
| 17 | Almost all of them were either drowned or captured . |
| 18 | " When he was asked " Do you deny that any of them were forcibly evicted ? " he answered " I deny that any were forcibly evicted . |
| 19 | Most of them were well gone in their cups and offered no objection when Cranston knocked at the door and demanded entrance . |
| 20 | Fifteen were in metalworking ; most of them were well paid and skilled , as tinsmiths etc . |
| 21 | The four of them were just climbing into a long red two-seater sports car standing double-parked almost in the middle of the roadway . |
| 22 | Woolley was in business with death , while the rest of them were just playing with life . |
| 23 | Her judgements about them were later reinforced . |
| 24 | As can be seen , approximately two-thirds went into hospital ( though , particularly in Ipswich , some of them were later transferred to an old people 's home ) . |
| 25 | Only six out of the school 's 260 pupils turned up at the school , and four of them were later picked up by their parents and returned home . |
| 26 | It is widely agreed that such psychoactive plants or preparations from them were much used in religious ceremonies , where their effects were taken as evidence for religious reality ; visions of Paradise which could be reached only by the faithful . |
| 27 | Perhaps one or two of them were so blinded by hatred of Lloyd George as to believe that the move would still show up his impotence . |
| 28 | The three of them were so smoke begrimed and blackened that it was difficult to tell what they were wearing but two of them appeared to be dressed in white while the third was in a navy blue overall . |
| 29 | In that square place that was over there , it was a pantry , some of them were so fused together they were holding each other . |
| 30 | The said transactions and each of them were so entered into : – ( i ) in the course of the first defendant 's contravention of section 3 of the Act for the period ( July 1988 to March 1989 ) when the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned therein and/or ( ii ) as a result of contraventions of sections 47 and 57 in which the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned . |