Example sentences of "them [prep] [adj] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flares are n't news in Dublin they 're still wearing them from that first time round . |
| 2 | All the problems that had beset them from that first moment their eyes had met in the courtyard on the day of her arrival had vanished , it seemed , giving way to the greater power of one fact — now they were lovers . |
| 3 | ‘ A person who receives goods on sale or return and at once passes them on to someone else under a like contract is entitled to demand them from that third person just as soon as the original owner of the goods has the right to demand them from him , but I am clear that , if he allows a period to elapse before he hands them on to a third person on sale or return , he has done an act which limits and impedes his power of returning the goods . |
| 4 | The hallway and various passages off it were full of visitors helping pyjama-ed relatives in and out of chairs , plumping cushions for them or fetching magazines from a well-stocked rack , or encouraging them to that last little drop of cocoa from what seemed to be a standard issue purple mug . |
| 5 | Subsequently , this project will investigate the bases of the American decisions and the response to them by those third world governments accused of politicizing the agencies , the professional secretariats of the agencies coping with the consequences of American withdrawal and the views of the British government which has suggested a similar withdrawal from UNESCO , but from no other specialised agencies . |