Example sentences of "between [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " 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 They were ‘ volunteers ’ who between them had vast experience of how ‘ Maranyl ’ was manufactured on our five extrusion systems at Billingham .
4 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 .
5 In 1900 in the Ruhr town of Hamborn , three enterprises between them employed 10,000 people ; by 1913 these same enterprises employed 30,000 .
6 It has been estimated that the nine London newspapers in existence in 1704 between them published 44,000 copies per week .
7 From the dessert menu , the kids had ‘ superhero sundaes ’ which turned out to be merely ice-cream , while we adults between us tackled American cheesecake which was flavourless , and rather chewy fudge brownies — not recommended for those with dentures .
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