Example sentences of "[prep] them [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gentle old men who took up the presidency of Lebanon had about them a streak of cold savagery that stunned even the Palestinians . |
| 2 | to provide meetings which have about them a sense of mental , spiritual and emotional homecoming to them . |
| 3 | She thought about them a lot , wondering how it was going for them on their first real day on active service ; the first day , she supposed , of the rest of their lives — of the duration , at least . |
| 4 | They looked about them a bit hazily and then at the bleeding half-thing that had been the young boy and scuttled into a corner . |
| 5 | And , road accidents , we talk about them a lot , and we 've discussed about charging for them , or whether we should n't and all the rest of it , they are n't about bits of squashed metal , they 're about people . |
| 6 | We always had books and newspapers in the house , and I talked to the children about them every day . |
| 7 | At least Linfield are still above us in the championship race so you can keep on writing about them every day . |
| 8 | ‘ But I never felt remorse about them the same way I did about him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ They are looking fresher and bouncier , and I just sense there has been a lot more energy about them the past 10 days . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I er I forgot about them the night before and I forgot to tell her about it last night so . |
| 19 | He 's worried about them the whole time . |
| 20 | In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice ! |
| 21 | have to go through looking through them every time you want something . |
| 22 | The clouds parted and through them a beam of light fell on Sandweg church . |
| 23 | Video can bring an assortment of people into the classroom and through them a range of issues . |
| 24 | I went through them a second time with the copper who came round here . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | Their retail branches are a fixed cost , so the more business they put through them the better . |
| 28 | Housman pays strict attention to these prosodic and structural emphases , conveying through them the Horatian sense of addressing the imagined bystander . |
| 29 | The Irish hierarchy immediately campaigned against what was for them a drastic solution . |
| 30 | Most of them were refugees from East Africa living in substandard conditions and paying exorbitant rents ; for them a second income was desperately needed , and going on strike seemed a dangerous business . |