Example sentences of "[prep] them [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the peak year of 1913 , these stations between them were receiving 5,791,700 tonnes of goods . |
| 2 | Fortunately those games brought together Europe 's Big Four who between them were to win six points out of the nine which Europe had accumulated at the end of the first two days . |
| 3 | Two of them were wearing navy-blue men 's overcoats that must have been the crew 's , holding the ends carefully to save them from trailing on the stairs . |
| 4 | Three of them were sacked last month , leaving Mark Franklin and Tony Dorie as hosts . |
| 5 | On the first night , most of them were watching Bionic Showdown : The Bionic Woman Meets the Six-Million Dollar Man on a rival channel . |
| 6 | Two hundred people were milling about the room ; 20 or 30 of them were hugging each other in greeting . |
| 7 | However , although the large charitable institutions of the later nineteenth century continued , there are signs that many of them were finding increasing difficulty in raising funds and few significant new charities appear to have been founded . |
| 8 | Cycling , like walking , is one of the best ways of seeing and enjoying the countryside , and mountain bikes have proved to be the latest and most popular method of ‘ green ’ transport : over 1 million of them were sold last year . |
| 9 | The two of them were crouched either side of a mass of scrawled diagrams in the dirt . |
| 10 | Both of them were discharged two years later . |
| 11 | With the parents we interviewed erm not only did all of them see their own role as being helpers and supporters of their children as being a very important one , but a very very large number of them were doing extra teaching at home or getting even paid tutors in to help with their children . |
| 12 | And a short while before that , while one of them was getting some tools or something from the van , a car drove past quite slowly as if the driver was looking for somewhere . |
| 13 | Against them were marshalled industrial capital in coal mining , shipping and shipbuilding led by the great radical ( Karl Marx 's description ) Joseph Cowen . |
| 14 | To them was born another child , Malekith , who was to become the most hated of Elves . |