Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I never felt remorse about them the same way I did about him . |
| 2 | All were shabby ; all had about them the cleanliness of icy well-water , spoiled and fetid with the reek of the city , that nothing but fire could dispel . |
| 3 | ‘ They are looking fresher and bouncier , and I just sense there has been a lot more energy about them the past 10 days . |
| 4 | In September and October we read in the papers of the heavy raids on London , and the more we read and heard about them the more difficult it became to understand how people could survive . |
| 5 | The following three hours passed with surprising speed , but I had already learnt a valuable lesson : it is very tiring and hard being in general surgery ; every patient expects that the doctor knows all about them the moment they walk in the door , and we had to be empathetic , not sympathetic . |
| 6 | About them the world seemed to stand still , the silence broken only by the gentle rustling of the leaves in the branches above their heads . |
| 7 | They were beasts , not men , but they had about them the features of nightmare , of ghosts , and though she recognized the animals of the forest in limbs , teeth and eyes , what struck her most powerfully was the element of madness in them . |
| 8 | The geometrical plan of these structures , and the accuracy of their laying-out , caused astonishment upon their discovery , but otherwise the more that has emerged about them the more difficult in some ways they have become to understand . |
| 9 | We have only done them when we know we have not done them , because there is so much more to them ; and the more we think about them the more they have to say . |
| 10 | I just think it was a momentum that was caused by some villages feeling safer from the nationalists as they got further and further from the front and therefore more and more people a bit f erm being willing to sort of talk again , shout up against the , the landlords and as they saw , as they saw that their neighbours were getting land , all the others decided well they 're getting land , we might as well talk to , have a talk about them the problems and the harsh treatment that we 've had in , in years before . |
| 11 | I er I forgot about them the night before and I forgot to tell her about it last night so . |
| 12 | He 's worried about them the whole time . |
| 13 | ‘ Which is one thing about me the murderer does n't know . |
| 14 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 15 | Although written from the different viewpoints of the agriculturalist and the physiological ecologist , both books have running through them the strongly common theme of comparative physiology and nutrition . |
| 16 | Anyone in late eighteenth-century London who was anxious to ‘ insure the removal of barrenness ’ or ‘ improve , exalt , and invigorate the body and through them the mental faculties of the human species ’ , need not have looked further than the Temple of Health where Dr James Graham had constructed what he modestly termed his ‘ medico-magnetico-musico-electrical bed ’ . |
| 17 | Their retail branches are a fixed cost , so the more business they put through them the better . |
| 18 | Housman pays strict attention to these prosodic and structural emphases , conveying through them the Horatian sense of addressing the imagined bystander . |
| 19 | ‘ Through me the defendants tender their sincere apologies to the plaintiff for the distress she was caused by the publication of the article . ’ |
| 20 | For them the Imperial Sun shines on undiminished ! |
| 21 | The poet writes for , and gives a voice to , people whose privileged education has closed off for them the possibility of speaking as limpidly and directly as the speaker of ‘ The Widow 's Lament in Springtime ’ . |
| 22 | It is Davie 's contention that this view is quite wrong : there are a great many outstandingly talented British poets , including Charles Tomlinson , C H Sisson , Elaine Feinstein and others ( Davie , as distinguished a poet as any of his subjects , modestly excludes his own work ) who do not answer to this description , and one purpose of Under Briggflats is to claim for them the attention they have often been denied ; in some cases , indeed , to rescue them from scandalous neglect . |
| 23 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 24 | For them the role of victim of white gangs is over . |
| 25 | For them the MacSharry treatment is grim : slashed prices , grants that taper away with increasing size of farm , and good land forced to lie fallow . |
| 26 | It posed for them the question , ‘ Are we still the people of God ? ’ |
| 27 | For them the choice has been an entry level model pared to the bone , the used car lot or an east European ‘ cheapie ’ . |
| 28 | But enough carousing and photographing … would I mind , my Tasmanian countrymen asked , taking the World Cup back to Sydney for them the following morning ? |
| 29 | Not for them the worries of an investigative Panorama or Insight team of reporters . |
| 30 | But many managers do not have such a background ; for them the need to think quantitatively is sometimes alien , or at least a strain . |