Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] them [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , all the forms of human culture — art , law , religion and so on-are objectifications of the human spirit by which it projects itself externally in order then to move on through them to a higher self-realisation . |
| 2 | It was good enough for them in the old days , and it will be good enough for them again , especially with THE woman out of the way . |
| 3 | They found him under the yew tree and after a rather stormy scene , during which Bigwig grew rough and impatient , he was bullied rather than persuaded into going down with them into the great burrow . |
| 4 | Undaunted , the young Scot chased after the opposition in one shoe and came in with them to the final take-over . |
| 5 | The figures are left in the orange colour of the clay , the background painted in round them in the shiny black : a purely decorative variation ; and it has been plausibly suggested that the strange ‘ negative ’ idea was inspired by the custom of washing the background of marble reliefs with a blue or red against which the mainly white figures were left standing out . |
| 6 | The great , distinguished people of the world do not know that these beggars can in the pride of their souls , look down on them as the unfortunate ones , who are left on the shore for their worldly uses , but whose life ever misses the touch of the lover 's arms . ’ |
| 7 | Perhaps someone could lure some , sportsmen , in tweeds into its tenebrous depths , where we could leap down on them from a great height to tweak their noses and fill their plus fours with cornflakes . |
| 8 | A square of amber light shone down on them from the open hatch . |
| 9 | And if you despair of ever getting the baby 's pushchair anywhere near clean , or perhaps those muddy football and rugby boots , just spend five minutes or so on them with the Steamatic . |
| 10 | So are gilts , especially if you nip in to them before the next — perhaps imminent — interest rate cut . |
| 11 | Isabel 's gaze skittered nervously past them to the two men-at-arms , now held at the end of a very businesslike sword attached to the hand of the young man she had seen with Guy at the church . |
| 12 | This postulates that people have in mind a target income they would like to receive — set by the life style of their neighbours or those just above them on the social ladder . |
| 13 | The hounds , however , having wriggled under and through the gate , were still running , streaming away from them across the next field as the fox headed for the nearby covert . |
| 14 | Monica loves to entertain and cook for visitors , but dislikes spending all her time away from them in a separate room , so linking the two rooms was the perfect solution . |
| 15 | He stood his own ground , deciding it would be better to let those at the rear who were awaiting their turn to descend , see his reassuring presence still with them on the upper floor . |
| 16 | Within minutes they had roused sleeping children from four of those homes and driven off with them into the murky winter dawn . |
| 17 | Silly-Willie danced to his mother 's playing , his feet flashing and tapping and glancing , his ugly body quiet and still above them as a little gravestone . |
| 18 | What happens very often here is that participants are inspired by the social and professional intensity of the event but find that they have little to carry home with them except a heady sense of general enlightenment which is often quickly dispersed on its contact with reality . |
| 19 | The bodyguard drove , cut off from them by a sliding glass panel . |
| 20 | She talked of her children , far away in the north at Alnwick castle with their household , and of the late Spring when she would take her husband home to them for a brief visit . |
| 21 | Sensing their presence on the threshold of the door , it twisted its head up towards them with a atrocious snarl . |
| 22 | Liverpool 's midweek exertions caught up with them in a low-key second period , but there was still time for Ian Rush to pass the latest in a seemingly endless list of personal landmarks . |
| 23 | She 's probably enticed a man with a beard and a lot of snotty children away from his wife , and she 'll be shacked up with them in a mobile home on the outskirts of Llangollen , cooking beans and magic mushrooms and playing the flute and moaning about the artificial restrictions of society . ’ |
| 24 | Some were split and bent almost double by their own mass , which meant you could charge straight up them into the lower branches six feet above ground . |
| 25 | It has been suggested that the special fear of the cat jumping up on them in an unexpected way is the result of cat phobics ' general dislike of spontaneity and fear of the suddenly surprising . |
| 26 | ‘ Take him down below the three flights of hurdles , ’ Tremayne said , ‘ then bring him up over them at a useful pace . |
| 27 | So w we 're not charging out for them at a high enough rate . |
| 28 | Battalion after battalion decimated solely by the bombardment would be replaced in the line by others , until these too had all effectiveness as a fighting unit crushed out of them by the murderous shelling . |
| 29 | On summer evenings rowers on the lake have claimed that they have heard far below them through the still waters the sound of church bells tolling . |
| 30 | In an effort to improve its PR , the country 's most prestigious hunt , pictured above this weekend , invited a journalist to ride out with them for the first time . |