Example sentences of "them [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably you could buy them some stores have them for maybe a week or so . |
| 2 | They used to be in the boxes up the yard , you see , you used to lay them and feed them for perhaps a week before you killed them . |
| 3 | ‘ At the first sign of the housing collapse , we brought in Coopers & Lybrand and worked with them for about a year . |
| 4 | People wanted to be the next model to sit and she 'd chat to them for about an hour and draw , and they 'd get a picture at the end of the session , just like you get in the street . ’ |
| 5 | I watch them for quite a while . |
| 6 | ‘ She 'd been working on them for quite a while . |
| 7 | Half a dozen wild rabbits were all the stock I observed upon them with scarcely a blade or leaf of herbage to keep even these alive ; doubtless through the folly or madness of the first occupiers ( after appropriation ) in converting them to arable farms instead of sheep walks and rabbit warrens ’ . |
| 8 | The type of notes you make are personal but the important point is that you can follow them with only a glance . |
| 9 | ‘ But we limited them to just a couple of chances . |
| 10 | That did nothing for County 's confidence , but they gradually began to exert a control that promised them at least a draw until Sansom 's unlucky deflection . |
| 11 | Careful explanations at this time could give them at least an inkling of the importance of the game , and some measure of preparation for the time when it will be no game , but a reality of great promise . |