Example sentences of "[to-vb] they [adv prt] [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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1 The law protected farmers living near subsistence level who needed something to carry them over from one harvest to the next , especially if the harvest had been bad .
2 Bosch will be able to buy them out in 1996 for 20.4 times average earnings per share in the previous three years up to a maximum of 394p .
3 Early March was scarcely the time of year for pleasure-sailing , but the young women insisted on going along ; and wrapping up warmly , they went down to the harbour and found fishermen to row them out in one of their high-prowed cobles .
4 Write to jog them along after three months .
5 They 're trying to get them up to three pound a packet , that 's what they 're trying to do .
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