Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [pron] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 450,000 employees , 300,000 of whom work in the postal service , are unhappy . |
| 2 | The charges focused on events at Lurigancho prison , where 124 inmates died — 89 of them shot in the head — after they had surrendered , according to an investigation by Peru 's Congress . |
| 3 | Already their father had given an indication of his deep displeasure by ordering all three of them to remain in the room throughout the ceremony . |
| 4 | It was as though everyone else in the little hall — Mr Sands , the curious spectators , Havvie 's party — did not exist — only the three of them left in the world . |
| 5 | There were three of them seated in the wardroom , Talbot , Van Gelder and Grierson . |
| 6 | A groom came out to take their horses and , when he saw Corbett , immediately ran off leaving all three of them standing in the pouring rain . |
| 7 | The three of them stood in the middle of the lane , snuffing up the keen cold air . |
| 8 | Three of us went in the front , the other three through the back . |
| 9 | Now he was down in Somerset : dairy , herding of course , Friesians , and milking about 20 cows , three of us milked in the morning and two in the afternoon , a long cow shed , of course my heart came in my mouth then , under the knees of all the cows . |
| 10 | He came back to school after Christmas with 4 of them stuffed in the back of his mini and it just went from there . |
| 11 | Some claim credit for murdering or stabbing Israeli settlers , 4,000 of whom live in the strip . |
| 12 | The railway between Pointe Noire and Brazzaville , for instance , was built with the forced labour of 127,250 men between 1921 and 1932 — 10,200 of whom died in the process . |
| 13 | In a very real sense , of course , the biographies of the Muftis in the following chapters illustrate the development of the hierarchy , but it seems not without point to concentrate attention on this particular aspect by placing side by side the biographies of two scholars , one of whom lived in the period before the hierarchy had become developed to any very great degree — before , perhaps , it is even possible to speak of a hierarchy-he other in a period when the development was fairly well advanced , though not complete . |
| 14 | So a Court would consist of three Magistrates , one of whom sits in the centre and acts as Chairman |
| 15 | One of the Romans city , so you can pick out some Roman traces , one of the erm the er er Viking city , one of what happened in the Norman period the eleventh century , time of William the Conqueror and the two castles and the big er erm abbeys he put up , and finally the medieval city . |
| 16 | There are other images , too : he mentions the " ailanthus " , one of which stood in the yard of the Mary Institute where he had once played , and the " briar rose " by his father 's house in Gloucester ; in addition , he employs words like " rote " or " groaner " which he had heard as a child in New England . |
| 17 | One of her co-accused in the Stompie Seipei Moeketsi trial , who supported her alibi that she was away in another state at the time of the 14-year-old 's murder , now says he lied throughout the proceedings . |
| 18 | The German prostitutes were terribly clean and efficient and not one of them seemed in the least turned on by what they were doing . |
| 19 | One of them sat in the back — again — and made me follow the Escort , but at least this time they were plainclothes men not uniformed , so my street cred did n't suffer . |
| 20 | I asked what had happened — ‘ Had their been a shuffle ? — or had one of us died in the night ? ’ |
| 21 | Two of them came in the third round . |
| 22 | Two of them came in the first half as Bolton tore Watford to shreds . |
| 23 | It was just the two of them left in the pub . |
| 24 | He 'd caught a glimpse of the two of them reflected in the hall mirror and his heart had lurched because it looked as if he was propping up a corpse . |
| 25 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
| 26 | Wayne said as the two of them sat in the empty hull of a partly-restored cruiser on the Saturday morning , but Pete could only shrug . |
| 27 | When the two of them appeared in the doorway some time later , several of the men shuffled along to make a welcoming space by the fire . |
| 28 | If , if , if , if it 's , if it 's , if it 's , if it 's two of you living in the house right the poll tax is n't paid by one person , it 's each person is , is responsible for their own poll tax |
| 29 | There were now just the two of us left in the dining room . |
| 30 | The four of them sat in the sun , Lindsey mostly listening , but happily so , sipping at her lemonade . |