Example sentences of "[prep] they [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly all of them lay in the Ruhr and Silesia ; those in the latter area were to become more and more important because of the ease with which they could be worked and the quality of Lower Silesian coking coal . |
| 2 | The general occupational picture of black sportsmen 's parents is consistent with the rest of the first generation Caribbeans in the UK and as nearly all of them came from the West Indies ( mostly from Jamaica , but others from Dominica , Antigua , St Kitts , St Lucia , Montserrat and Guyana and fewer still from Trinidad , Nevis and Barbados and a small number from West Africa ) this is not unusual . |
| 3 | At a junction one of them stepped from the Sierra and opened fire on the police car with a sawn-off Kalashnikov rifle , said the prosecution , but the two officers were not injured . |
| 4 | One of them stepped from the Sierra with the Kalashnikov and aimed it at the police car . |
| 5 | But her vast collection of hoary old Jewish jokes , most of them pinched from the Dead Sea Scrolls , are greeted with paroxysms of guffaws and rolling in the aisles . |
| 6 | Mounted on dragons , the two of them flew to the Fortress-Shrine of Vaul 's Anvil . |
| 7 | Results in the 71 seats in electoral districts , where the winning candidate was required to secure over 50 per cent of the votes , were decisive for only 13 seats ( 10 of them won by the DLP ) . |
| 8 | It was the last either of them spoke as the Ferrari raced through the night . |
| 9 | In fairness none of them appeared at the Berlin show that began only two days after Paris , a show signalling a new frontier for the German manufacturers , who may just , in 10 years ' time , give the French as much to think about as the Japanese do . |
| 10 | 65 came from 68 balls , with 53 of them debited to the Warwickshire man . |