Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [subord] [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jannie put her spare hand over her eyes as if shielding them from the sun , and closed out the sight of her husband . |
| 2 | The old woman settled back in her chair and shook her shoulders as if to free them from the burdens of the present . |
| 3 | There are other delicious gestures drawing attention to the feet in La Fille Mal Gardée such as Mother Simone gently tapping her clogs as if thanking them for allowing her to show off her particular style of dance . |
| 4 | Philip French wrote in The Times , ‘ Once again , the considerable talent of Michael Crawford is squandered on feeble material , and he is excusably incapable of convincing us of the irresistible attraction of an insipid newcomer called Genevieve Gilles , who delivers her lines as if reading them from the small print of an oculist 's chart ( from which they might well have derived ) . |
| 5 | It was night ; a brisk breeze drove chubby clouds to the east , effacing and revealing the stars as if polishing them for display . |
| 6 | The man looked at the boys as if seeing them for the first time . |