Example sentences of "themselves [prep] [art] sum " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1775 " A plan and Estimate of a Church yeard Dyke arround the Kirk of Bowmore , amounting to ffourty four pounds one shilling and seven pence sterling , being produced , which sum Shawfield is to lay out next season , and this meeting stent themselves with the sum of twenty pounds Sterling of the said sum for this year , and agree that the rest of the said sum be stented in following years . " |
| 2 | 1821 " This Meeting having given due consideration to various kinds of theft committed in the Island — Resolve to stent themselves in a sum ( £20 ) … for the purpose of detecting and prosecuting such persons as may be found guilty of theft . " |
| 3 | This Meeting do hereby Stent themselves in the sum of £15 . " |
| 4 | 1811 " It being known to this Meeting that two Parochial Schoolhouses are upon the way of being finished at Kilchoman and Kilmeny , and that it is proposed to build a third schoolhouse at Kildalton … stent themselves in the sum of £70 . " |
| 5 | Stent themselves in the sum of thirty pounds … in the Expectation that Shawfield will … contribute towards finishing it … " |
| 6 | 1815 " The Meeting concieving it to be highly usefull that the Road from Portaskaig should be rendered complete , do willingly Stent themselves in the sum here stated . " |
| 7 | 1824 " This Meeting being impressed with the utility to the Island by the appointment of a Steamboat to ply in place of the Packet , do unanimously Stent themselves in the sum of one Hundred and ten pounds sterling for this current Year … " |