Example sentences of "[prep] them [prep] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This made things difficult for them during the aggressively secular phase of the French Revolution , when Itxassou in particular fell foul of the regime . |
| 2 | Luke was in command and this time instinct told Robyn there would be no withdrawal , no respite from his sexual onslaught , from the tension that had been building between them since the very first moment . |
| 3 | The Bristol Mail was heading towards them at the piteously slow speed of a horse and cart , urged forward by a sleep-weary teenage post-boy . |
| 4 | Given that the men in our sample spend an average of more than 43 hours a week at work ( ie half their waking life ) , it 's hardly surprising that job satisfaction is the one factor mentioned by more than half of them as the most important thing in their lives ( see table , opposite page ) . |
| 5 | ‘ These are vital training opportunities many of them for the most disadvantaged young people , ’ he added . |
| 6 | Letters pour into the correspondence columns from all over — some of them from people who sound several years older than himself , and some of them from the most exclusive neighbourhoods , well beyond the pockets of any of his friends . |
| 7 | The director of one of the national galleries whose trustees were appointed by Downing Street ran into them in the very early 1980s . |
| 8 | These prominent individuals , the populists of island life , cast in , and ready to accept , the role of ‘ men of the people ’ as a means of acquiring the power denied to them within the more formal mechanisms of local political life , were ready to add housing to their existing concerns . |
| 9 | By their day-to-day actions , children can also affect the way in which their parents react to them in the most powerful and direct manner . |
| 10 | Did the Prime Minister feel no sense of humiliation at having to meet the other 11 Heads of Government and having to explain to them in the most public way why the British economy was so uniquely vulnerable and fragile that we alone were unable to provide the basic minimum provisions of the social charter ? |
| 11 | Now he was standing back regarding them with the faintly anxious proprietorial air of a stallholder at a church bazaar wondering whether he has set out his wares to best advantage . |
| 12 | We deny that we have been disdainful of patients : we were investigating a concern expressed by them in the most objective way we could . |