Example sentences of "three of them " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all three of them made for the stairs . |
| 2 | He looked up with satisfaction at the panelling of the new box-beds — comfort and decency for all three of them , while others in the village still slept on the floor like beasts . |
| 3 | In a minute the three of them were huddled in cloaks , by the light of two candles and the last glow of the embers , trying to think quickly . |
| 4 | Without another word the three of them dressed and then , by the small yellow light of the candles , they opened the strong-box and fed the many leaves of paper one by one into the embers . |
| 5 | Soon all three of them were reeling out and reeling in , pouncing on the fish as soon as they could reach them and pulling the hooks from their mouths . |
| 6 | Later when he was hungry , he ate three of them in a row , washed down with bottles of beer which he said he did n't much care for . |
| 7 | ‘ My view of the Common market can be summed up in four words and three of them are … the Common Market . ’ |
| 8 | Keith Ramsey supplied three of them with a long-range shot 15 seconds from time , but Gerald Lee marshalled his team through . |
| 9 | Five other people — three of them women — were injured , including a man of 19 trapped for four hours . |
| 10 | The trainer explained : ‘ Three of them , Jeff Newton , Mick Dews and Barry Dixon , had a horse with me called The White Lion , who won a seller and I told them to let it go . |
| 11 | There were four sendings-off , three of them Greek , as Bulgaria beat the visitors 4-0 in a Group One match at Varna . |
| 12 | Her letters , three of them , contain no mention as to her health , or how she is feeling . |
| 13 | Six Hampdens were lost , three of them through running out of fuel on the return . |
| 14 | The three of them entered a place outside time , on a day of such stillness and heat . |
| 15 | For a silent moment the three of them sat there . |
| 16 | Phoebe made all three of them hot chocolate . |
| 17 | Come on , come on , he thought , and pictured the three of them plummeting down the last thirty feet into the basement . |
| 18 | Once , when the three of them were sitting in Lewis 's rooms , Lewis happened to refer to philosophy as ‘ a subject ’ . |
| 19 | There are only three of them — and that includes George Howarth and his wife , Julie . |
| 20 | Many have decided that the eight credit cards which , on average , they carry , three of them issued by banks , are more than enough . |
| 21 | The three of them are sitting round a low table with three cups of coffee , and Paul is trying to entertain the visitor . |
| 22 | ‘ Three of them , ’ said Lee . |
| 23 | There were three of them with ribbons and pins , in the back left-hand corner of his drawer . |
| 24 | The three of them walked back to the village . |
| 25 | That was their secret , the three of them , the night in Jubilee Wood . |
| 26 | As though the three of them were a group , defending itself against the outside world . |
| 27 | There they were , the three of them , in the doorway of the cottage , rather shadowy but plain enough . |
| 28 | The hamper would be a present for the three of them and she 'd be thinking of them having a jolly evening . |
| 29 | But certain aggravated assaults are singled out by the law for higher maximum penalties , and three of them may be mentioned here . |
| 30 | Between the three of them , they shared intimacy with such Establishment groups as pre-war Cambridge , the Foreign Office , The Times , the BBC and the Athenaeum . |