Example sentences of "of they [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 But bands of armed rebels from sundry factions still extort food from villages , some of them across the border in neighbouring Sierra Leone .
2 ‘ It 's not just the money , ’ he said , stabbing at his beans and sending a scattering of them across the table .
3 He poured wine into two of the cups and slid one of them across the table so that it was within Sidacai 's reach .
4 I see , so that measures the speed of them across the screen this way you can time it .
5 A lot of them off the field which have got nothing of course to do with him .
6 Not only that , it pulled some of them off the gate and threw them away .
7 They secured eight but also lost three wickets including two run outs , one of them off the last ball .
8 It 's simply that six legs is the smallest number of legs you can have such that you can take exactly half of them off the ground and not fall over .
9 If one plots the sites of all the recently-active volcanoes in the world on a map , one finds that several distinct , narrow chains exist , some of these running along the edges of continental land masses , some along island arcs and some of them through the sea [ see Fig. 1 ] .
10 His hands rested on her shoulders and she could feel the warmth of them through the coarse material of her bodice .
11 Although it is a newcomer to New York politics , the Coalition proved startlingly effective , distributing more than 100,000 voters ' guides , many of them through the Catholic church .
12 Eventually they are turned to stone , but they retain not only the outward shape that they had in life , albeit sometimes distorted , but on occasion even their detailed cellular structure is preserved so that you can look at sections of them through the microscope and plot the shape of the blood vessels and the nerves that once surrounded them .
13 He was suddenly tired and the beer was going to his head , making him think of Madra lying in the house they had left , and of the long journey ahead of them through the mountains .
14 He fears the impact on the traditional character of pubs if the brewers have their way and turn many of them over the leaseholders .
15 He has got through a dozen of them over the years and generations of cricketers have passed by .
16 She said : ‘ I hit one of them over the head in the bedroom and then I got going .
17 It is important to note that any of these items can occur with anybody , en when there is no addictive disease , and that some people may even eve experienced several of them over the years .
18 The customer services team are rarely seen by customers but maintain close contact with every one of them over the telephone .
19 ‘ We get a lot of donations from relatives and friends of people we have nursed here and we have kept a record of them over the last few years , ’ said Mrs Deidre Shaw , administrator for the appeal .
20 SunSoft will begin offering Adobe imaging products for the Solaris 2. x operating system from the middle of next year , SunPics will have the stuff in Unix SVR4 versions of its print system during the second half of 1993 — both of them under the Open Look graphical interface ( UX No 405 ) .
21 Provision for the effects of transfers of employees and liabilities in respect of them under the Transfer of Undertakings ( Protection of Employment ) Regulations 1981 and transfers of pension rights .
22 Often this is because they fail to understand what is expected of them under the broad , general duties of the Health and Safety at Work Act .
23 The Chernobyl Help organization , chaired by chess master Anatoly Karpov , claimed that around 1,000 of the " liquidators " had died , 70 per cent of them under the age of 40 , and that another 5,000 had contracted illnesses related to the accident .
24 The defendant pointed to the close relationship of those witnesses and Paulette , the background of tension and domestic strife and the animosity of each of them towards the defendant and stressed the ease with which their evidence could have been fabricated and the absence of corroboration .
25 Simply serve them in tiny bowls or hors-d'oeuvre dishes , or pile up little mounds of them beside the sliced lamb and beef .
26 If you are using a lot of abbreviations in a document keep a note of them beside the keyboard as you can easily produce a lot of nonsense if you accidentally use the wrong abbreviation .
27 They tried to put some of them into the Land Army , but Lilian was n't quite up to it , were you , my dear ? ’
28 Full assimilation of them into the old upper class would seem unlikely .
29 Compaoré had earlier sought to appease opposition figures when on July 26 he brought a number of them into the transitional government .
30 Richards saw that Woolley was trying to do more than train them , and lead them , and pass on the lessons of experience : he was also struggling to turn each of them into the kind of person that he himself had become .
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