Example sentences of "[prep] they [vb base] [verb] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are few places on the globe unmapped , but there are millions of people in the world who have never seen the sea , or mountains , or a desert , or a snow-covered landscape , and many of them want to experience such places because the unknown is one of the great pleasures of travel . |
| 2 | Some of them have spent more terms in schools than others — which must be borne in mind when looking at the position of an individual pupil — but all those factors even out in the local authorities . |
| 3 | Incidentally , Michael Land reckons that there are nine basic principles for image-forming that eyes use , and that most of them have evolved many times independently . |
| 4 | So some of them have got both sides , some of them have got a mixture . |
| 5 | Always work a sample for tension with these lace patterns , fabrics with holes in them tend to need fewer stitches because the work becomes more elastic . |
| 6 | In between they have experienced all sorts of eccentric people and weird events . |