Example sentences of "[prep] they [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the other dancers made life difficult for them at first , resenting the physical advantages the South Africans had enjoyed , growing up far away from the hardships of wartime Britain . |
| 2 | When they did not return that night , Richard led a search party for them at first light the following morning . |
| 3 | This had introduced them to mechanisms which suggested a terminology applicable to their own science making it possible for them at last to give the behaviourists , who had been giving those not of their ilk a hard time , some of their own medicine . |
| 4 | It may be surprising , but when a cat brings a live mouse to her kittens — perhaps for them to first play with and then kill , or perhaps so that she can kill it while they watch — this is not considered by some experts to be a form of teaching . |
| 5 | They divided between them about one-fourteenth of the land surface of the globe ( if we exclude Asiatic Russia ) . |
| 6 | Michael Abbell worked at the Justice Department for 17 years until 1984 , the last five of them as first the director and later deputy director of the Office of International Affairs . |
| 7 | Since 1985 , Heidrick and Struggles in London has more than tripled its number of consultants — from five to fifteen — most of them at first new to search and comparatively young . |
| 8 | People did not want to hold hands with either of them at first , but without her red cloak to remind them of sin , they quickly forgot who Izzie was . |
| 9 | Almost two years after the beer orders went through the House , we are entitled to ask the Minister what good came of them at last . |
| 10 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 11 | While a point puts City closer to safety , a point slows Wednesday down and allows Arsenal to move within three points of them in fourth . |
| 12 | Hearts ' bad day was made worse with the news that Celtic had moved past them into second place in the Premier Division after beating Falkirk 3–1 . |
| 13 | There was the most tremendous row — Sykes refused to go with them at first , and the master was brought in to persuade him . |
| 14 | ‘ We have now asked Reed to suspend the proposed changes until we have had a meeting with them on 22nd April . |
| 15 | So if you have a look at those and play with them for next time erm and make sure that you learn those two rules about if the signs are the same |
| 16 | ‘ But there will be books to buy from men who are finished with them from last year ; it will cost less , ’ said Willie . |
| 17 | They passed two landings , Gordon following her with majestic tread , but faster than one might expect , since although he had lost time in hanging up his raincoat in the hall , he reached the door first , and opened it without any kind of announcement , and Edward was standing , with his back to them at first , thinner and smaller than she remembered , but then she always made the mistake when she had n't seen him for a bit — he turned round , protesting , and it was Edward . |
| 18 | Cliftonville are now a team to be respected by other Irish League outfits and good luck to them in next week 's Irish Cup semi-final . |
| 19 | The groups flanking the god should be transposed so that the Centaurs carry their victims outwards and the heroes strike at them from next to the protecting god . |