Example sentences of "them in the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably such militias date back to the last years of the Roman period , although there is no evidence for them in the fifth century . |
| 2 | Whoever takes control of Oxford has got a job on to keep them in the second division … they 're six points adrift at the bottom … but on Saturday United faired best of the three Central South sides … they drew while Swindon and Hereford both lost |
| 3 | Who will join them in the Second Division is still a long way from being decided but GS Stirling enhanced their prospects of survival by beating Inverleith 2-0 . |
| 4 | A disappointing result for United who totally dominated the first half and really after seeing that first forty five minutes , it was so difficult to see how they could not win three points , and this encounter against the Charlton side drew on the same number of points as them in the second division table . |
| 5 | With the eternal and infernal Beeston breeze behind them in the second half Nottingham certainly put in a tremendous finish against Northampton . |
| 6 | That put Swansea 8–6 in front at half-time , but even then the Aussies could n't have expected the storm that awaited them in the second half . |
| 7 | Collegians had a slight breeze behind them in the second half , but were n't able to take control . |
| 8 | Only a brilliant last end by their skip , Jamie Mills , saved them in the second round . |
| 9 | The magazine Der Spiegel recently published the results of an opinion poll revealing that 14 per cent of Germans still think Jews were partly to blame for what happened to them in the second world war , 36 per cent believe Jews ‘ have too much influence ’ , and more than 50 per cent believe it is time for Germany to forget the past and move on . |
| 10 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
| 11 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 12 | Durrant ran the show against them in the first leg of the ‘ Battle of Britain ’ , forging through from midfield , skipping tackles and spraying passes non-stop . |
| 13 | They held them in the first half of the game and were only 12-10 down after 10 ends . |
| 14 | It was proposed that the trainee nurses would be accommodated in the main building of the institution and the committee recommended a scheme for ten probationers , five of them in the first year . |
| 15 | now lets hear three cheers for Gloucester rugby club … on Saturday they won at London Irish in the league … a victory that could help keep them in the first division |
| 16 | I 'd like to see them in the first division . |
| 17 | Wolves overtook them in the first division table during the week . |
| 18 | There is a North Region branch of the British Agency for Adoption and Fostering in your area , and I suggest you contact them in the first instance . |
| 19 | The sheer volume of the many assessments externally required by the Act and now under design by SEAC runs the danger of forcing the less confident teachers — indeed all of them in the first instance , as they ascend the steep learning curve — into ‘ rote teaching ’ , a much more dangerous activity than rote learning because it tends to shut down that sense of intellectual curiosity without which children are not really being taught . |
| 20 | He would instruct them in the first instance to threaten to seize the man 's belongings to the value of the money owed . |
| 21 | If you have any complaints , please address them in the first instance to the Warden/Manager who is authorised to deal with them . |
| 22 | ‘ Then you 'd better get on to them in the first instance . |
| 23 | Not so Jack , who appeared to have forgotten that it was his idea to invite them in the first place . |
| 24 | But it could provide the electricity in the factories to build them in the first place . |
| 25 | Faced , however , with the catastrophic increase in unemployment and the need to occupy large numbers of workless people without directly employing them ( which would have run counter to the economic doctrine which had led to the redundancy of many of them in the first place ) , the Government poured money into any ‘ voluntary ’ agency willing to put in a bid for government-funded cheap labour . |
| 26 | This section of the book is designed to help you come to terms with your deepest emotions and the people or events which may have caused them in the first place . |
| 27 | Gradually these dreams came less often until they stopped altogether , although I still do n't know why I had them in the first place . |
| 28 | They might be , predictably , so unpopular that Parliament would not pass them in the first place . |
| 29 | As mentioned earlier , it is possible to treat certain phobias ( although not all ) by hypnosis without ever having to discover what caused them in the first place , and for some patients this is all they require . |
| 30 | The fact that you were weak enough to choose them in the first place is another thing altogether , ’ she finished triumphantly . |