Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] them [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 I 've done lots of work for them in the last couple
2 ‘ We get a lot of donations from relatives and friends of people we have nursed here and we have kept a record of them over the last few years , ’ said Mrs Deidre Shaw , administrator for the appeal .
3 With the eternal and infernal Beeston breeze behind them in the second half Nottingham certainly put in a tremendous finish against Northampton .
4 Collegians had a slight breeze behind them in the second half , but were n't able to take control .
5 Since their traditional migration routes lay in areas which came under Russian influence fairly early ( Tornsk , Kuznetsk and Tara districts ) , they established economic , political and cultural contacts with them in the seventeenth century .
6 Presumably such militias date back to the last years of the Roman period , although there is no evidence for them in the fifth century .
7 There was no sign of them in the next field , but ahead of him at the top of the hill he saw the young dog , looking black against the morning sky .
8 Britain experimentally contaminated a Scottish island with them during the second world war , and the place was considered dangerous until 1986 .
9 England 's first choice spinners , Emburey and Tufnell , did not take a wicket between them until the third day of the third Test .
10 Others are saying , a lot of them for the last few years have been saying , this is ridiculous .
11 Durrant ran the show against them in the first leg of the ‘ Battle of Britain ’ , forging through from midfield , skipping tackles and spraying passes non-stop .
12 It was from Holkham that the first Devons were commercially exported to the USA , though in fact the Pilgrim Fathers , who set sail from Plymouth , took some Devons with them in the seventeenth century .
13 The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli .
14 It was close in the end but it might have been even tighter if Colbert had n't made way for them on the last stage .
15 And two companies with strong Australian transport interests , Britannic Shipping and Playmaker , have agreed sponsorship deals worth nearly £100,000 a year between them for the next three years .
16 On March 3 the Palestinian delegation expanded on the self-government proposal placed on the table by them at the third round of talks held in Washington in January [ see p. 38740 ] .
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