Example sentences of "them [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them were shown to the solicitors of a Mr Jaggard , who was defending civil actions in the Chancery Division brought by the same company . |
| 2 | And er they were , well quite a lot of them were scrapped in the days when the depression came on . |
| 3 | One of them was shouting at the men behind the counter now ; a stream of threats and curses in Kuo Yu — Mandarin — while the two behind him looked about them threateningly . |
| 4 | This convention , re-negotiated in 1980 and 1985 , provided greater aid to the Third World states , but its value to them was limited by the effects of inflation and the restrictions on agricultural trade with Europe caused by CAP . |
| 5 | One of them was hurt during the arrests . |