Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] among the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this occasion I had neither heard nor seen the tigress , nor had I received any indication from bird or beast of her presence , and yet I knew , without any shadow of doubt , that she was lying up for me among the rocks . |
| 2 | I think we do have to explain the , the re-establishment of authoritarian forms of government more carefully , we ca n't just assume that there 's a kind of almost instinctive hankering after it among the mass of the population because I 'm just not convinced by that at all . |
| 3 | All in all it was with a feeling of indescribable joy that on the sixth day I saw a familiar figure coming towards me among the prompt arrivals . |
| 4 | Mr Bragg nodded towards a lean figure picking his way towards them among the splintered remains of the wooden rollers . |
| 5 | A multiplicity of stations would appear in each Latin American capital of importance , some of them among the grandest anywhere . |
| 6 | Yours sincerely , ( Prof. ) Richard von Krafft-Ebing girl is obviously fairly intelligent , and so will find it hard to find a man worthy of her among the servant classes ; and how will she meet anyone else ? |
| 7 | IF THIS WEEK 'S striking display of Labour unity was more show than substance , there was no sign of it among the party 's ‘ other ranks ’ as they dispersed in buoyant mood from Brighton . |
| 8 | This relationship is expressed by the word ‘ friendship — , and includes many manifestations of it among the denizens of the earth both human and otherwise . |
| 9 | Come , let us leave these fruiting lovely valleys Where we have laboured , to the men who till them And start the journey to our cloud-wreathed home Where you will live with me among the gods In joy on lofty Olympus . |
| 10 | The status of comedy is crucial to the debate , and we can at least be sure that Kingsley Amis would not object to having his practice compared with Waugh 's , or to being placed with him among the monologists of the Right . |
| 11 | As he was relating his story , he suddenly realised that sitting before him among the directors was the sandy-haired man he had seen talking to Mr Dwerringhouse . |
| 12 | Hatton had been walking along in the dark and someone had waited for him among the willows and the brambles , the stone ready for use . |
| 13 | He chattered at her , sleepy and indignant as she dived for him among the dirty linen , the old letters , a moth-eaten scarf . |
| 14 | There may have been some support for him among the cardinals , but they were not prepared to act in concert and several now put themselves forward . |
| 15 | In the small , square grave-yard , tangled with bramble and escalonia and overgrown with rank grass and nettles , a hole was dug for her among the bones of former generations ; bones of old women and men scarcely yet forgotten were turned up to make a place for her among them . |
| 16 | The pups slithered out onto the weedy boulders , not forty feet from the cottage window , and waited expectantly until she reappeared carrying a sizeable fish , which the two of them ate together , wrestling over it among the sea-tangle . |
| 17 | The carvings swung , and up there an owl of wood stared at her among the leaves . |
| 18 | At last she felt clear and a kind woman smiled at her among the machines and said , ‘ Nearly ready now . ’ |
| 19 | Surely all three are for us among the great achievements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ? |