Example sentences of "the [num] [prep] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | The six of us here will all attend to your news , but you will tell it with your back to the men , and you will not expect to read what we think on our faces . |
2 | It took the three of them over an hour to reach the bottom of the slope , where they came to a halt . |
3 | Look what happened last year when the three of them nearly went bankrupt . |
4 | In many ways , the tragedy had brought the three of them closer together . |
5 | The three of them soon to be part of one fusion , still at this time isolated from each other : three figures representing and summarising between them so much that was central to the complex notion of the Romantic Age . |
6 | He signalled the three of them through . |
7 | She thinks of Dulé , for he beckons to her : they will cross the channel to Oualie and be with him , perhaps , as he has asked , the three of them together again , with Roukoubé as well , and Sycorax will recover . |
8 | However , Dr Adams manipulates the remaining children , as he knows that they can telepathically communicate with Tommy , Michael and Jenny , to get the three of them back . |
9 | But it was Morse who answered : ‘ If you wish , Lewis , I will give you the names and addresses of the three of them there that open all day . |
10 | Now they 're going to leave the three of us here , to die on this island . ’ |
11 | It went on like that , the three of us never quite living together , never wholly apart . |
12 | The three of us often went off to ordnance depots where Eric bent all his efforts to persuading whoever was in charge to donate a load of blankets ( which made excellent winter coats and suits ) or , if he was trying to help a doctor , a set of motor tyres , which were worth their weight in gold . |
13 | So that you 'd get move those round a bit so that you 'd get Say that pizza came in like that and your mum sat down there said , Right we 're having some pizza we 're going to share this out between the three of us so we all get the same sized piece . |
14 | Of course , had Helmut not left for Zurich but stayed at Park Terrace , and had the situation between the three of us then become something of a tussle , I might have lacked the courage finally to pack up and return to Paris with Jean-Claude . |
15 | Now if B is plus three , then going back to me formula here is going to be minus five , cos if I put the three in it there , I get minus five from there . |
16 | I 'll get in touch , I 'll give her a ring , because we actually , we were looking erm out of the twelve of you altogether we were looking for six of you to actually have your feet washed on Maundy Thursday evening at the , at the , the mass at the service on Maundy Thursday evening . |
17 | What , the five of them together , unaccompanied ? |
18 | So we got but we got a hundred percent acting or something and the two masters are gon na take us out , the five of us out to dinner . |
19 | I tried the twenty on him again . |
20 | How cosy this could have been , the rain lashing down outside providing a curtain from the world and the two of them here with no occupation except to pleasure each other . |
21 | Beth had thought her son and Cissie were still in the garden , so was pleasantly surprised to see the two of them already in the kitchen ; Richard eagerly awaiting his tea , and Cissie fussing with a place setting . |
22 | On the whole I found it less tiring to keep the two of them apart . |
23 | All that really mattered , after all , was that there would be a stout door to separate the two of them tonight ! |
24 | The thought of the two of them fucking was bad enough ; Lewis impregnating that gorgeous creature was infinitely worse . |
25 | Try the two of them on . |
26 | Have you the two of them on yet ? |
27 | Had they left him in Perth , to keep the two of them well separate ? |
28 | Not I went to bed last night at twelve o'clock John and Ryan was in bed about twelve I think , the two of them just fell straight to sleep . |
29 | She loved these evenings with her father , was constantly aware that Sylvie 's absence had the benefit of bringing the two of them closer . |
30 | Between the two of them there was a fundamental issue at stake . |