Example sentences of "[prep] eight [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the House of Representatives , controlled by the Democratic Party since 1956 , the party won 259 seats , a net loss of eight compared with the 1990 result . |
| 2 | MacLachlan , victor of eight combats over the island , was fortunate to come down on Malta itself , rather than in the sea : ‘ For what seemed like hours I hung there , apparently motionless , with Malta still as far away as ever . |
| 3 | Founded in 1986 by Tim Williams and Gordon Harris , the Somerset , New-Jersey-based company now has a team of eight working on the products , which respectively compress , encrypt and speed up the Unix file system . |
| 4 | Then one day , when I visited the hospital by chance — Alec was ‘ on duty ’ — a boy of eight arrived at the surgery , carried by his father . |
| 5 | An alternative method of tying off rope coils using a separate figure of eight tied into the harness . |
| 6 | While the Senate had agreed after Collor 's resignation that impeachment was no longer a legal possibility , it voted by 73 votes to eight to continue with the proceedings . |