Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Be nice up there today , ’ Selwyn said as he scanned the cloudless sky , ‘ but watch out for them bloody stags . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | For them new chances opened up in late middle age as their children left home . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | My aunt , she run a house for them visitin' ministers to Port au Prince . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ If it were n't for me old bones and the fact that I might be overlooked when the bidding starts , I would n't want you within a mile of that sale room . |
| 10 | Mme Fould ( wife of the Minister of State ) at their head , they pass one by one before the Empress , dragging after them enormous trains and making their ( more or less ) deep curtsies . |
| 11 | There had been rioting down by the docks , some said , but no one knew exactly where ; and Mrs Norris swore they were throwing the dead into mass graves , and half of them good Catholics without the last rites . |
| 12 | It 's like I 'm real light — you know , like one of them silver balloons — and every step I have to be careful not to float off . |
| 13 | A regular icosahedron : a solid having 20 plane faces , all of them equilateral triangles . |
| 14 | Cos it 's got all the them extra wo got all of them extra ones in . |
| 15 | A festival held to revive the art attracted hundreds of people , many of them complete novices . |
| 16 | The prison 's 1,300 inmates — many of them political detainees — were reported to have been released . |
| 17 | I am sure that hon. Members have talked to constituents , many of them young women with children , who say bitterly that they feel trapped in their environment and dare not go out at night , even to have a cup of tea with a friend . |
| 18 | But a lot of them young kids of twelve year old , twelve to thirteen |
| 19 | ‘ One of them young teds , I ‘ spect . ’ |
| 20 | Macdonell 's description of a village cricket match against a team of authors , most of them recognizable characters in Squire 's own team , ‘ The Invalids ’ , became required reading . |
| 21 | In front of them lay marshlands . |
| 22 | Controversy surrounding summit Prior to the summit , governments and NGOs of varying persuasions traded accusations , many of them familiar rehearsals of long-standing differences . |
| 23 | In ‘ package transactions ’ , trust banks each buy , say , 100,000 shares of the same 20 stocks — all of them key components of the Nikkei share average . |
| 24 | In order to make sense of them inferential skills may be needed , as well as an understanding of certain principles not unlike the minimal distance principle that operates for pronominal reference . |
| 25 | He 's one of them educated bastards who would n't know his arse from his elbow on a Friday night in the Bigg Market … |
| 26 | HDS declined to specify its installed X-terminal base , saying it had 200,000 units in the field , most of them serial terminals . |
| 27 | The restoration is taking place in public , so you can actually see the volunteer restorers , some of them ex-Vickers employees , in action . |
| 28 | Two prisoners formerly featured in the Letter Writing Campaign , Thoza Khonje and George Mtafu , were among at least 21 political prisoners released in Malawi between January and March this year — all of them long-term detainees held without charge or trial . |
| 29 | There are only six Tory MPs in the principality , four of them new boys . |
| 30 | By the late 1980s British publishing was issuing over 50 000 titles a year , more than 40 000 of them new titles , or well over a hundred ( on average ) for every working day . |