Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I was able to do in that instance was play all the symphonies through with the orchestra and then forget about them for three months . |
| 2 | I 've read about them in one of my stories . |
| 3 | I 'll question you about them in one hour . ’ |
| 4 | As far as I know , the first person to discuss black holes was a Cambridge man called John Michell , who wrote a paper about them in 1783 . |
| 5 | Collins , for example , bought a very fine work off me for 600 roubles . |
| 6 | And one was going to but it off them for two hundred and fifty thousand so my mate said , You make the offer at two hundred and fifty and you 'll help me , so I says , I 'm getting it for two hundred if I say , an eighteen hole golf course , and I 'll sell it back to them when they can afford to buy it back off me , right ? |
| 7 | I was one of those people who used to be sort of potty about someone and then go off them within two weeks . |
| 8 | ‘ He has n't seen me or thought about me for ten years as far as I 'm aware and he could n't have known I 'd be in that house . |
| 9 | It puts support for them at 13 per cent ( up five points on last month ) , with Labour in the lead on 41 per cent ( down three ) , SNP on 24 per cent ( down two ) and Conservatives on 21 per cent ( down one ) . |
| 10 | And when Mother came to look for them at eight o'clock , they were asleep in the sun . |
| 11 | You were gon na work for them at one point Rich . |
| 12 | Lot forty two Lot forty two is the er large selection of auction catalogues and we 've got a sample showing , there we are works of art for you twenty pounds for them at twenty pounds anyone want them for twenty pounds sample showing for twenty pounds , anyone want them for twenty , thank you sir , twenty pounds I 've got in the centre and I shall sell at twenty if there 's no further bid at twenty pounds , any more ? |
| 13 | There was an overall majority for them of 44 , which guaranteed a full term in office , with 339 Conservatives . |
| 14 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 15 | It 's alw always very useful that er erm if we have to people have to ask us to wait around for them for five or six weeks or sometimes on a three monthly er er resignation thing it er |
| 16 | The wind has varied for them between 20 and 40 knots and it has , in the main , blown from the west , allowing them sleigh rides down the faces of the big waves . |
| 17 | Apartments had been booked for them in one block and they shared in couples . |
| 18 | I did actually get over to work for them in 1968–70 and 1971 , but this story I am referring to was in 1967 when I was just paying a visit and was given a bed for the night in the hostel . |
| 19 | There could be no more appropriate item with which to initiate such a project than the magnificent 12-part Motet In Memoriam Robert Carver which Ronald Stevenson composed for them in 1987–88 : a work which deliberately spans the centuries to invoke the spirit of Carver in new , late 20th-Century context . |
| 20 | Yeah , the chemist may not have those in stock but they 'll be able to get you for them within twenty four hours , you 're |
| 21 | German civilians especially suffered mistreatment at the hands of the Red Army in the East , but there was little sympathy for them after six years of war . |
| 22 | The Soviet Union and Mongolia agreed in November 1990 to review all treaties signed between them since 1921 , since many were now obsolete . |
| 23 | He cleared his throat instead , and traced some , of the pattern on the top of the small wooden table between them with one stubby , yellow-grey finger , Ajayi said , " Perhaps we could just ask one of them . |
| 24 | With no more than fourteen university lecturers in the whole country with a knowledge between them of five South Asian languages , there was clearly a dearth of linguistic knowledge in higher education which was unlikely to be rectified through new appointments , given the shortfalls in funding . |
| 25 | It was the first physical contact between them for four years , but for just an instant it had seemed as if it had only been yesterday when she had last touched him . |
| 26 | Immediately after his promotion , the archbishops of Compostella and Braga came personally into his presence in a case which had been going on between them concerning seven bishoprics . |
| 27 | Manager Graham freely admits he could never have imagined this threesome getting just one goal between them from six games . |
| 28 | Caergwrle and Buckley have had only six callers between them in six months . |
| 29 | It 's like two distinct things , two different worlds , and it takes time to make the transition between them in one sitting . ’ |
| 30 | This project will investigate the roles of males and females , old and young , and the power relations between them in two areas of land settlement in Mexico where there are attempts at sustainable agriculture . |