Example sentences of "[prep] one [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The end of the seventeenth and early eighteenth century saw the publication of Buchanan 's works ( just after one of them , his treatise on Scottish political theory , De Iure Regni apud Scotos , had enjoyed the distinction of being burned , with Hobbes ' Leviathan , by the University of Oxford in 1683 ) ; to begin with , it was works particularly dealing with Mary , the Detectioun and the History of Scotland , which were published , and then in 1715 came Thomas Ruddiman 's Opera Omnia Georgii Buchanani . |
| 2 | I was going after one of them , George Macready , when John Carradine , the first Yggdrasil projection , got himself — itself — remaindered . |
| 3 | On June 5 , 50 troops had dragged Khmara 's co-defendants from the courtroom after one of them , Kovalchuk , attacked the chairman . |
| 4 | The heel of one of them might massage his arm or the rough texture of his cheek . |
| 5 | It concerns yet another pair of mismatched cops , with the disposable novelty of one of them being a dog , which tends to restrict verbal sparring , along with the mangy dialogue and Belushi 's lack of manic spin . |
| 6 | Yet another pair of mismatched cops , with the disposable novelty of one of them being a dog ( James Belushi has the supporting role ) . |
| 7 | In the case of one of them , Andy Stewart , the Conservative MP for Sherwood , it almost certainly was . |
| 8 | If your household has two cars and you get rid of one of them you may be helping the environment , but are certainly worse off . |
| 9 | In practice , inter-Service rivalry only becomes unbridled when there is a danger — real or anticipated — of the balance between the Services being upset ; or of the structure of one of them being changed in a revolutionary rather than an evolutionary way . |
| 10 | between persons who , by reason of the previous marriage of one of them , are related in a way corresponding to one of the relationships above mentioned . |
| 11 | Then I noticed that right beside the checkpoint , in fact touching it , there stood a terrace of houses , and that in the front window of one of them stood a Christmas tree , with lights draped along its branches . |
| 12 | It was your hard luck if you came in in the middle of one of them . |
| 13 | Three leading PLO figures and the wife of one of them were murdered in their homes in rue Verdun by an Israeli assassination squad on 10 April 1973 . |
| 14 | Many survived through the centuries , and quite by chance , there is here a book from the lineal descendant of one of them , the Sheerness Dockyard Library . |
| 15 | He spent most of his time watching the fishermen at work , and wrote with enthusiasm about having made friends with a family of ‘ three brothers , each surpassing the other in beauty ’ and the Spanish wife of one of them , ‘ yellow skin like a magnolia and hair black as moonshine . |
| 16 | In the words of one of them , the background noise was so loud that a rifle shot sounded comparable to ‘ the popping of a champagne cork amid the hubbub of a banquet ’ . |
| 17 | We pitched our tents leeward of one of them |
| 18 | In one type of exchange , called gene conversion , two initially slightly different copies end up sharing the DNA sequence of one of them . |
| 19 | Hurrying through a railway station , I caught sight of one of them , right up my friend 's alley . |
| 20 | One had heard the ominous rumblings from the singers regarding the complexity of both choral and works , and the language of one of them ( Hebrew ) , but in performance on Saturday evening they sounded tremendous . |
| 21 | Some , Allen guessed , had been several weeks unused ; others , not since the winter rains ; of one of them he said with more certainty that it had been used recently , perhaps yesterday . |
| 22 | No one doubted that the disqualification remained in force so far as clergymen of the Church of England were concerned but the position of clergymen of the Irish Church remained in doubt until the election of one of them , the Rev. MacManaway , in 1950 . |
| 23 | Here is the story of one of them , Derek , the most unsuccessful train spotter in the world . |
| 24 | A curtain flapped wildly out of one of them . |
| 25 | Over the watershed , the A.87 runs alongside Loch Cluanie , now a reservoir , below the steep slopes of more Munros ; on the summit of one of them , Carn Ghluasaid , I disturbed the only ptarmigan I have ever seen . |
| 26 | Very intimate sounds were coming from the cubicles , but it was n't until the girl who had beckoned her earlier on came out of one of them and pointed to another where the door was open , and whispered harshly , ‘ Do n't you want to go ? ’ that she realised , Yes ; yes , she did want to go . |
| 27 | If the historian is lucky enough to be working on a topic falling within the scope of one of them , his task is greatly simplified . |
| 28 | DEC reckons that more than 90% of today 's VAXcluster customers will be able to enhance their systems by adding an Alpha AXP system.DEC 's clustering technology enables allows multiple systems to operate as a single system to provide fault resilience and high availability for applications : each machine in the cluster runs its own copy of the operating system with the clustering software under the control of one of them . |
| 29 | Maura and Margaret became a pair , the friendship only to end with the death of one of them . |
| 30 | The floor of one of them had traces of six hearths ( 1m 2 in area ) and , separate from them , at least 74 small hemispherical depressions , or cooking-holes , usually 10–20cm in diameter ( Fig. 1 ) . |