Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could be no greater indication of the contrast between me two friends ' approach to their craft than a comparison between The Lost Road , tentatively built up stage by stage , with an infinite number of backward glances at the whole mythology that has gone before , and Lewis 's self-confident brush strokes as he dashed off Out of the Silent Planet . |
| 2 | What is it about them that dissatisfies you ? |
| 3 | They had about them enough cameras and guide books to assure us that they were tourists , and the lady 's sunglasses could only have been , in Anna 's words , " products of the New World " . |
| 4 | And you could see and hear enough during them four nights to live by blackmail the rest of the week , he 'd said . |
| 5 | ‘ For thee these Hands wind up the whirling Jack , |
| 6 | On the whole , the new families seem to be quite affectionate units and through them some elements of the moral tradition are being handed on . |
| 7 | It 's like church with the sun shining through them coloured windows and pictures of Jesus with light all round and angels floating in the sky and the sun shining and all that . |
| 8 | ‘ Be nice up there today , ’ Selwyn said as he scanned the cloudless sky , ‘ but watch out for them bloody stags . |
| 9 | 2.3 If the Landlord is unable to obtain at a reasonable cost any of the materials referred to in the Building Documents the Landlord may [ ( subject to notifying promptly the Surveyors of its intention to do so ) ] in carrying out the Works substitute for them alternative materials as nearly as may be of the same quality |
| 10 | For them new chances opened up in late middle age as their children left home . |
| 11 | Lot forty two two Columbia portables there they are now , thank you , Lot forty two , fifty for them fifty pounds anywhere for the portables ? |
| 12 | Lot fifty five four phonograph horns and Lot fifty five , fifty for them fifty pounds anywhere ? |
| 13 | In this case a solution was at hand , although it helped the teacher rather more than the children : it was to neglect those children working in curriculum areas perceived to be relatively unimportant ( such as art and topic work ) , to devise for them low-level activities which could be tackled with minimal teacher intervention , and to focus attention on those children who demanded it . |
| 14 | Well you should y I I I er these la these these labels are so difficult to fit because if you say , Moving to the right , you then have to show me what policies the government is pursuing and you 'll probably find that I either play the part in thinking off argu arguing for them some years before some of my colleagues . |
| 15 | My aunt , she run a house for them visitin' ministers to Port au Prince . |
| 16 | Lot fifteen thank you , is two portables , Lot fifteen , twenty for them twenty pounds anywhere at twenty at twenty pounds any more at twenty twenty two twenty five twenty five pounds down there , twenty eight thirty thirty five forty five fifty five sixty five seventy seventy pounds seated , now any more at seventy , seventy five eighty eighty five ninety ninety five one hundred one ten one twenty one twenty seated , any more at one twenty ? |
| 17 | It is very clear that today 's parents do n't fit the mould that society defined for them twenty years ago . |
| 18 | Having three daughters and an ‘ extended ’ family , I started knitting for them 30 years ago , but not spending a lot of money . |
| 19 | But in the two weeks , as they moved slowly north into the forested hills and grassy uplands close to the hill station of Dalat , they had killed between them prime specimens of almost all the groups required for the museum . |
| 20 | ‘ It has been estimated that the economies of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland , could , to mutual advantage , create between them 80,000 jobs within the island of Ireland through import substitution by encouraging inter-regional trade co-operation . ’ |
| 21 | Taking a strict definition of a national paper ( that is to say , excluding the Guardian and Financial Times ) , twelve companies m- 1945 controlled between them nine dailies and eleven Sundays . |
| 22 | Although there are only 15 contractors , they have between them 50-odd transmitters , each of which needs two copies of the commercial ( at least ) , so allowing for your own copies and back-up stock , you will need 115 or so bulks for a national campaign . |
| 23 | In the years 1849 and 1850 , 760 sailing ships beat round Cape Horn carrying between them 27,000 passengers . |
| 24 | Between them these men accused Gregory of slandering Chilperic 's queen , Fredegund , and Leudast arrested two of Gregory 's supporters , the archdeacon Plato and his friend Gallienus . |
| 25 | Between them these parties also took all seven seats in the Bosnia-Hercegovina state Presidency , which was directly elected in separate voting on Nov. 18 . |
| 26 | By defining sites of special scientific ( mostly ecological and geological ) interest , and setting upper limits to catches of seals , fish and krill , between them these measures ensure that the Antarctic area will not be despoiled casually , and that its biological resources will not again be exploited without some reference to their capacity for sustained yield . |
| 27 | Between them these items taken together account for 60 per cent of total expenditure . |
| 28 | In many respects , between them these bodies , especially the Apprenticeship and Skilled Employment Association ( ASEA ) , pioneered the basic elements of the service as it was to develop , namely , vocational guidance , registration and placement , and after-care . |
| 29 | Financial deregulation , with its resultant mergers and reconstructions , has reduced LIFFE 's membership to under 200 firms which between them own shares in the Exchange . |
| 30 | I have a good mind to ask you to serve full-time on my reporting staff , but I am selfish enough to want you to go on writing for me these exposés of low life , particularly the way in which such misery afflicts women . |