Example sentences of "them [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The researchers selected 35 people who ate spicy food regularly and gave 19 of them 32 solutions containing different amounts of capsaicin and sugar . |
| 2 | The cat has relatively large eyes , and their design makes them eight times more sensitive than our own , giving it superb nocturnal vision . |
| 3 | Although the SDLP also managed to increase their Belfast seats by one , giving them eight councillors , a bitter row broke out over the meetings , which party leader Mr Hume has confirmed will continue with Mr Adams . |
| 4 | United managed only one credible scoring effort in the 1-0 defeat away to Aston Villa which left them eight points adrift of Arsenal . |
| 5 | ‘ I only charged them fifty pence so we wo n't get rich on that , but it 's probably done our reputation a lot of good . ’ |
| 6 | Oh I thought it was one of them fifty pence ones . |
| 7 | In England at that time shop girls would have a weekly wage of about twenty-five shillings so John Tiller was giving dancers an excellent deal by paying them fifty shillings a week when on tour , matinées providing an extra ten shillings . |
| 8 | Lot forty two two Columbia portables there they are now , thank you , Lot forty two , fifty for them fifty pounds anywhere for the portables ? |
| 9 | Lot fifty five four phonograph horns and Lot fifty five , fifty for them fifty pounds anywhere ? |
| 10 | She said , well we had to bu we , ma made it out that we had to buy erm the whole , the whole box , it cost them fifty pounds ! |
| 11 | The hospital 's fifteenth-century chapel houses a small collection of works by Hans Memling : exquisite , jewel-like portraits and interpretations of biblical scenes and Christian legends , as vivid as when he painted them 500 years ago . |
| 12 | Can I ask that you agree on eight one A to grant them twenty-one Saturday city centre permits , and you 're clear that you 've left out NovaSports and AvaRag , and you understand why ? |
| 13 | The findings show that Labour would win 76 seats from the Conservatives , giving them 305 seats overall , six or seven more than the Tories , but 21 short of an overall majority , with the Liberal Democrats holding the balance of power . |
| 14 | In November 1979 the Iranians had taken over the American Embassy in Teheran and held the staff hostage for 444 days , only releasing them 30 minutes after Carter had left office . |
| 15 | Having three daughters and an ‘ extended ’ family , I started knitting for them 30 years ago , but not spending a lot of money . |
| 16 | Murphy and Taggart led for much of the way but missed out a loop section of the route which cost them 30 marks and they dropped back . |
| 17 | Their secrets return to haunt them 12 years later when bodies are discovered buried in the grounds . |
| 18 | Etienne Saqr , who used the name Abu Arz , the Father of the Cedars ’ — one of the more psychopathic of the minor Christian militia leaders — commanded a group which specialised in cruelty , whose men tied Palestinian prisoners to the backs of taxis and then dragged them 12 miles up the motorway to Jounieh . |
| 19 | but Julia said to me before she came round with Hayden she said er , cos her mum and dad are still there , not her mum and dad , her mum and step dad are still there , they 're only giving them forty pounds for nine weeks , forty pounds towards the mortgage like you know , been there since after Christmas and erm , anyway she said ooh she said , Steve said er , that 's her husband , said to me ooh is n't Emily well mannered she said , she does n't walk in the house , she waits in the doorstep you know |
| 20 | He led the People of Israel out of slavery in Egypt , led them through the Red Sea , led them forty years in the wilderness and brought them safely to Palestine , Eretz Yisroel . ’ |
| 21 | Yes , but we have n't had them forty years . |
| 22 | Wearing hankies in the ends of your boots because you 'd bought them 2 sizes too big , and they were still floppy , with those grey flecked Millets hiking socks on ! |
| 23 | It took them 289 days of bureaucratic proceedings , and they were forced to pay two bribes ( out of 10 solicited ) . |
| 24 | Took them 26 years to win the title . |
| 25 | Their route will take them 230 miles across the Nares Straight towards west Greenland . |
| 26 | Behind them twenty-eight rank and file Lionisers exclaimed and marvelled at the quaint harbour beneath them , their thoughts torn between Dickens and murder . |
| 27 | If Christians can agree 25 December as the supposed date for an alleged birth it should not take them 2,000 years to agree a date for an alleged death . |
| 28 | A couple of determined tries from Gabriel , a solidly-built scrum-half , put them 10 points clear , before Finnie , with one conversion and three late penalties moved on to a personal total of 17 . |
| 29 | He says he only bought them 10 days ago , but he does n't have a receipt to prove it . |
| 30 | West Indies have won only two of their last 14 matches , and then it took them six games in this season 's World Series Cup to win another . |