Example sentences of "[prep] one of them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She held the faded spine of one of them to the light so that she could read the lettering : ‘ Journal of Martin J. Beale 1852–67 . ’ |
| 2 | He bombarded Burghley with schemes for exploiting Newfoundland in 1585 and 1586 , interestingly proposing the financing of one of them on the tontine principle , but they involved impractical proposals , as the international fishery could not be controlled by any one country except at vast expense . |
| 3 | It is that two lexical units will be assigned to the same lexeme if there exists a lexical rule which permits the prediction of the existence of the sense of one of them from the existence of the sense of the other . |
| 4 | The gardens of the Manor Road houses went through to one side of Fair View Road and my cousin pointed out a Nissen Hut in one of them as the garage rented by Mr. Rogers where the fateful taxi had been kept . |
| 5 | Tutilo stood staring in bewilderment from one of them to the other , without understanding , almost without recognition . |
| 6 | The only clues to the identity of the telephone bidders was that German was spoken to one of them by the saleroom staff . |
| 7 | Although I was still ‘ tiny ’ ( a word used by one of them at the time ) by any normal standards , when I looked in the mirror , I saw someone who appeared to me to be ‘ gross ’ — a favourite word with anorexics , as Minuchin shows . |
| 8 | I could with ease place my arm on the roof as I stood by one of them in the road . |