Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] and the [num] " in BNC.

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1 He backed across the room keeping pieces of furniture between himself and the three of us .
2 In the great fracas in our house , between the three of us and the twenty or thirty policemen , it was our family who were charged with assault .
3 Against them and the seven thousand at Telnitz was ranged the whole might of the Austro-Russian left : forty or fifty thousand men .
4 I had me tea with her and the two boys and she did n't press me any further . ’
5 He said McMullan hurled the bomb while McCrory stood with him and the two men escaped through Garland 's garden and house , the doors of which had been left open as pre-arranged .
6 Then Gun cannoned into him and the two men sprawled on the ground .
7 It was some time later , and the scene had shifted to the cottage sitting-room which , with myself and the two men , and two large detectives , was rather crowded .
8 He felt a kind of frozen hardness blocking him out , as if there were a wall of ice between him and the two men .
9 penetrate the chilling force-field that lay between him and the two men .
10 It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price .
11 Lifeboat crews in turn depend on you and the thousands of Governors and other supporters that you represent to speed them on their way with the resources you provide so unstintingly .
12 But now British Rail has reversed its decision on him and the two others at a freight depot in Doncaster .
13 If that were the case then I would say to you that there must be some exceptions to it and the one exception I am particularly concerned with , and it 's up to others to bring forward their particular exceptions , is that of rural affordable housing .
14 In the first gallery , dedicated to the artist 's origins , one can see the earliest signed work , the ‘ Flight into Egypt ’ of 1534 , and chart the development between it and the two versions of the ‘ Journey to Calvary ’ from the Fitzwilliam and the National Gallery , London , executed a decade later .
15 They were talking about the House of Representatives at Weimar — ‘ That troublesome place ’ , as the T'ang continually called it — and about ways of shoring up the tenuous peace that now existed between it and the Seven .
16 We set off at a rattling rate , presumably to put some distance between us and the dozens of others still ponderously selecting items of clothing from their car boots , and I commenced my belligerence with a few barbed remarks about the pace-setting .
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