Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll be saying something about them in the lectures , not today but next week , and er now which reminds me , who is performing next week ? |
| 2 | The formal powers of the royal family have diminished as the yardage about them in the newspapers has grown . |
| 3 | I welcomed moves to cut price increases and did not find that they were being done in secret — I read about them in the newspapers and elsewhere . |
| 4 | However , there are several Mira variables which can be found with binoculars when near maximum , and can even show some colour ; I have given notes about them in the pages which follow , but it is rather pointless to go into detail , because long-period variables are the province of the telescopic observer , and estimates made with binoculars are inevitably rough . |
| 5 | The last time it was asked about them by The Times , the best that it could do was to put up a research assistant to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) to answer . |
| 6 | They have been particularly successful within the Pacific-rim economies , and perhaps as much as one-fifth of world trade went through them by the mid-1980s . |
| 7 | And I used to have to sing hymns for them on the wards , they used to love that |
| 8 | But the only way the BBC can afford to make original programmes for relatively limited audiences , such as science , is to pay for them with the profits generated by the sale of archive material of wider appeal . |
| 9 | ‘ Chesterfield worked hard but we made things easy for them with the goals we gave away . ’ |
| 10 | erm Has that been a concern of unions , or has it been other sorts of organisations that have been pressing for them over the years ? |
| 11 | Like the others Brian remembers minimal preparation and no protection for them during the tests . |
| 12 | Choate shows up the hypocrisy of former Administration members who oppose the Japanese publicly but take large fees for acting for them behind the scenes . |
| 13 | We store food for them inside the trees so they do n't starve when the icy-cold winter comes along . ’ |
| 14 | Make a table , ranking the prey species ( a ) in their order of abundance and ( b ) in order of the preference shown for them by the dog-whelks . |
| 15 | Different cultures have their own interpretations of the natural environment and its utility for them in the processes of survival and reproduction . |
| 16 | They enjoyed the special places reserved for them in the synagogues which were in full view of the congregation . |
| 17 | After Corrections I joined Picture Group in 1981 and for some reason I ended up doing a lot of work for them in the ghettos , guns , drugs and things like that ; it became my forte and I came to feel at ease in this kind of environment . |
| 18 | They could also seek to express their views by searching out a friendly bishop to speak for them in the debates . |
| 19 | In America we 'd be holding out banners for them in the streets of their home town . |
| 20 | In 1983 about 500 candidates for the priesthood had to be turned away in Asia and Africa as there was no room for them in the seminaries and no money left . |
| 21 | He does n't consider his team-members as subordinates , always consulting them , always seeking consensus , always doing his best for them in the decisions he makes . |
| 22 | They fear that Mr Charest , but not Ms Campbell , will be a match for them in the provinces where it matters most , Quebec and Ontario . |
| 23 | If they are churchgoers , but unable to go out alone , it is usually possible to organise lifts for them in the cars of other church members to Sunday services as well as week-day activities . |
| 24 | They cost just a pound a copy to produce , so why do we pay so much for them in the shops ? |
| 25 | We make them at just under a pound but what the record companies charge for them in the shops is up to them |
| 26 | Yes , she really adored her dogs and there was a special graveyard for them in the grounds . |
| 27 | I am happy to say that the farmers of the United Kingdom believe in this ministerial team and in the Government , who are fighting for them against the proposals of the European Community . |
| 28 | The reappearance , first and most immediately , of Eanfrith and subsequently of Oswald in Bernician territory at so crucial a moment in the history of the northern Angles could imply military assistance for them from the Picts or the Scots or both and even perhaps a certain ability to act in concert with the British king , Cadwallon . |
| 29 | Some French troops had to be withdrawn from Brittany to pursue and harry Gaunt 's forces , but the diversion of the expedition from its original destination served to embitter relations between Duke John and Gaunt , which were in any case strained after a quarrel between them over the wages due to their troops , and the English garrisons at Brest , Bécherel ( a fortress some twenty miles south of St Malo ) , and Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte were still hard pressed by du Guesclin 's forces . |
| 30 | Maybe , thought Alix , that mild , concerned approach of Hannah 's is all a front , devised between them over the years , consciously or unconsciously , to mediate , to palliate , to distract attention ? |