Example sentences of "them [prep] [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They divided between them about one-fourteenth of the land surface of the globe ( if we exclude Asiatic Russia ) . |
| 2 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 3 | The Victorian was an integral part of a Northants revival which took them from 13th in the Championship table in 1951 to second place , behind the all-conquering Surrey combination , in 1957 . |
| 4 | ‘ Bardolet 's co-driver made a timing error on the last rally which dropped them from first to fourth and that cost them the lead in the championship , ’ explains Meeke . |
| 5 | The groups flanking the god should be transposed so that the Centaurs carry their victims outwards and the heroes strike at them from next to the protecting god . |
| 6 | Ian Porterfield 's young side immediately showed to the challenge from the start , showing the form that has taken them to fourth in the Premier League after just one defeat in their previous 11 games . |
| 7 | Thus it fell to one of the rank-and-file to make a lucky find that brought them at last to the downs : and probably saved a life or two ; for they could hardly have spent the night in the open , either on or under the hill , without being attacked by some enemy or other . |
| 8 | Men often ‘ raise questions , and multiply disputes , which never coming to any clear resolution , are proper only to continue and increase their doubts , and to confirm them at last in perfect scepticism ’ . |