Example sentences of "them at [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Some of the other dancers made life difficult for them at first , resenting the physical advantages the South Africans had enjoyed , growing up far away from the hardships of wartime Britain .
2 When they did not return that night , Richard led a search party for them at first light the following morning .
3 Start by using each yarn for two rows of weaving — it can seem quite difficult to organise them at first , but you will soon start to be able to do this more quickly .
4 He 's costing me a fortune in tights — I wondered who 'd been taking them at first .
5 Since 1985 , Heidrick and Struggles in London has more than tripled its number of consultants — from five to fifteen — most of them at first new to search and comparatively young .
6 To Ruth , crouching by Gran , he seemed hugely tall ; but he gazed round like a helpless child , seeming not to see them at first .
7 Bernice had n't seen them at first : their black silk cloaks merged into the darkness beyond the doorway , and only the jerky movements of the red-painted muzzles of their stubby blasters revealed their location .
8 I tried to tell them at first , but now I just smile and say nuffin' , like Brer Rabbit . ’
9 They passed two landings , Gordon following her with majestic tread , but faster than one might expect , since although he had lost time in hanging up his raincoat in the hall , he reached the door first , and opened it without any kind of announcement , and Edward was standing , with his back to them at first , thinner and smaller than she remembered , but then she always made the mistake when she had n't seen him for a bit — he turned round , protesting , and it was Edward .
10 People did not want to hold hands with either of them at first , but without her red cloak to remind them of sin , they quickly forgot who Izzie was .
11 There was the most tremendous row — Sykes refused to go with them at first , and the master was brought in to persuade him .
12 it did n't like them at first , because she felt that they were very rough and uncouth .
13 Seven student teachers will be taking their examinations on 21st and 28th March — we wish them luck and hope to see them at next Q.T. Day .
14 Men often ‘ raise questions , and multiply disputes , which never coming to any clear resolution , are proper only to continue and increase their doubts , and to confirm them at last in perfect scepticism ’ .
15 I thought further of the great fears that the rich must possess , of misfortunes that might reduce them at last to rejoin the human race .
16 I found them at last .
17 This had introduced them to mechanisms which suggested a terminology applicable to their own science making it possible for them at last to give the behaviourists , who had been giving those not of their ilk a hard time , some of their own medicine .
18 Thus it fell to one of the rank-and-file to make a lucky find that brought them at last to the downs : and probably saved a life or two ; for they could hardly have spent the night in the open , either on or under the hill , without being attacked by some enemy or other .
19 True , they had been vassals of China for nine long centuries — but had n't their hearts " like iron and stone " enabled them at last to throw off the Chinese yoke when the Tang dynasty crumbled ?
20 The girl cried out in alarm at the sound of Rohmer 's shout , swinging back to see them at last .
21 Almost two years after the beer orders went through the House , we are entitled to ask the Minister what good came of them at last .
22 It is a moment that is likely to reshape the strategic thinking of traditional , print-on-paper publishers , perhaps encouraging them at last to re-define their activities and participate more extensively in information media of all kinds .
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