Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [verb] [prep] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bennet was hurrying towards them in his smart grey uniform . |
| 2 | Mala was looking at them in a distant and superior way when I sidled up next to her . |
| 3 | Jesus was speaking to them in a , in a concealed language , it was only for his disciples , and whilst all the people heard it , they did n't understand it , the disciples did n't understand it , and Jesus afterwards explained to his followers what he was saying . |
| 4 | He also fails to note that the Eastern Board 's proposal to remove obstetric services from Downpatrick is described by them in their same document as intending to produce an improvement in entirely wrong . |
| 5 | Up the slope , at the top of his semi-circular steps , Alexander Menzies was waiting for them in his best silk coat like a dandy at a ball , with a straightfaced young man standing by his side . |
| 6 | The whole of Great Britain was divided between them on a strictly geographical basis , and — subject to the general supervision of the British Railways Board and its chief officers in London — each region was completely responsible for the planning , working , and selling of all rail services in its area ( except in the seven provincial centres where PTEs had been established ) . |
| 7 | Oliver and Tim were waiting for them at the gangway . |
| 8 | In the present case , the primary argument of the revenue has been that the repayment of sums paid by Woolwich was made by them on a voluntary basis , i.e. that the payment was repaid ex gratia . |
| 9 | The Bernard brothers were so struck by this that for some weeks afterwards Henrietta was known to them as ‘ Piss-off darling ’ . |
| 10 | Xanthe 's bathroom is raspberry and cream , with toile de Jouy curtains of shepherds and shepherdesses with crooks and ribbons fluttering from them , and Feeny 's sitting beside them in her flowered pinafore by the tub , on the stool with matching toile de Jouy cover and frill . |