Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] them [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Undaunted , the young Scot chased after the opposition in one shoe and came in with them to the final take-over . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | A square of amber light shone down on them from the open hatch . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So are gilts , especially if you nip in to them before the next — perhaps imminent — interest rate cut . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Within minutes they had roused sleeping children from four of those homes and driven off with them into the murky winter dawn . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | According to them she had been at school that day and came out with them at the usual time and , as far as they knew , had gone the usual way home . |
| 19 | When the greatest lords drove out to their estates , he often drove out with them in the same carriage . |
| 20 | I tended the wounds of one of their men and they took me back with them into the great Forest of Ettrick . ’ |
| 21 | Indeed there are strong resemblances between them , especially when one looks back on them from the present day and across all that has happened in theology since Ritschl . |
| 22 | This being the case we can talk back to them on the same basis and presumably they will understand . |
| 23 | Ipswich players were going down quite a lot , and every time they did , Leeds kindly punted the ball back to them after the drop-ball restart . |
| 24 | Her carved eyeballs stared back at them with the uncanny blindness of statues , who seem always to be perceiving another dimension , where everything is statues . |
| 25 | ‘ Then you 'd better get on to them in the first instance . |
| 26 | The county of Gloucestershire has seen some turbulent times over the centuries , not least of them in the present one . |
| 27 | Markby nodded towards the line of people ahead of them on the flagged pathway to the church door . |
| 28 | Despite the many grumbles and adverse comments , 70 per cent of all employers interviewed claimed to have been satisfied with the standard of work of young people taken on by them in the previous two years , and only 14 per cent expressed dissatisfaction . |