Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The centrist Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution ( PARM ) and the left-wing Party of the Cardenist Front for National Reconstruction ( PFCRN ) and Popular Socialist Party ( PPS ) between them commanded 42 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 2 | Trinity House was ordered to remove the navigation buoys from the Thames estuary ; the militia in the south-western counties was called out , seriously disrupting the bringing in of the harvest ; Essex , Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire between them raised 22 troops of cavalry who occupied Hounslow Heath ; while the foot from Kent and Surrey were mustered at Blackheath . |
| 3 | He explained that , since he wrote that advice , it was getting more difficult to arrange a DIY funeral because of the growing number of takeovers ; in fact , three companies between them had large parts of the southern half of the country sewn up . |
| 4 | It has been estimated that the nine London newspapers in existence in 1704 between them published 44,000 copies per week . |
| 5 | It was held on the anniversary itself , and for me followed three days of interviews and other press events organized by Cathy and Chris . |
| 6 | After him came two men in yellow raincoats with their hands behind their backs , and then two other men in white with guns . |
| 7 | After him came more chiefs and then banners and icons of the two principal churches which had sent their Arks to be present at the battle . |
| 8 | But the rest of me ignored those details and clutched hungrily at the reassurance that she had n't really played a willing part in my humiliation . |
| 9 | Most of them got thirty years . |
| 10 | Almost one in five of them said male nurses were seen as ‘ weak ’ . |
| 11 | A couple of them sported bruised faces , and one was limping . |
| 12 | Only three of them secured enough votes to be assured of their seats . |
| 13 | Most of them became good Americans . |
| 14 | Most of them had cartilaginous vertebrae , like modern toads . |
| 15 | Many of them had blue lights on top . |
| 16 | There was , however , one issue on which both of them had similar views : President Sadat 's peace-seeking journey to Jerusalem in November 1977 and its sequel at Camp David the following year . |
| 17 | Most of them had similar extensions . |
| 18 | The family drew together to help each other , and most of them had additional sources of comfort . |
| 19 | Too many of them had clear memories of the last war to relish another . |
| 20 | Prof Van Velzen 's team found earlier this year that of 34 victims of unexplained cot death , 70pc of them had underdeveloped kidneys . |
| 21 | Jessie wanted to catch all the some of them had big beds and some of them had little beds , Jessie , you 're not listening eh ? |
| 22 | Not even poverty , for though by the standards of the middle classes all of them had modest incomes — except in such a paradise of labour as Australia in the 1850s where newspaper compositors could earn up to £18 a week — by the standards of the poor there was a vast difference between the well-paid and more or less regularly employed skilled ‘ artisan ’ , who wore a copy of respectable middle-class costume on Sundays or even on the way to and from work , and the ragged starveling who hardly ever knew where his , still less his family 's , next meal was to come from . |
| 23 | Well , not all of them had those things … |
| 24 | I tried to help some of those that were hurt but some of them had dreadful injuries . |
| 25 | Jessie wanted to catch all the some of them had big beds and some of them had little beds , Jessie , you 're not listening eh ? |
| 26 | The great majority of mothers were not in paid work , hardly surprisingly since so many of them had large families of young children . |
| 27 | The claimants were nearly always women , and three out of four of them had dependent children . |
| 28 | Most of them wore camouflaged smocks and jump boots . |
| 29 | Both of them wore short skirts . |
| 30 | A study in which the majority of the subjects suffered from mental aberrations of one sort or another required them to perform tasks continuously , and in isolation , for forty-two hours.4 Three of these ten subjects experienced actual hallucinations , and seven of them suffered perceptual distortions or illusions . |