Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] them [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many banal and clumsy , weak and foolish artists have justified their work as that which saved them from despair . |
| 2 | In the past they worked as long as they were able : it was illness rather than age as such which placed them in need . |
| 3 | The sight of all which struck them with consternation or a kind of horror that they incontinently gave over search and with the utmost hurry and dread , throwing earth and turf to fill up the pit they made , they departed , having neither of them the courage to enter or even inspect into the further circumstances of the place ’ . |
| 4 | It is only after the death and complete dehumanization of the suicide that they threaten physical harm to those who offended them in life . |
| 5 | Yet among those who watched them on television screens as they did so were many who had been born before there were aeroplanes , and even before the motor-car had become a familiar object . |