Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] them [prep] [art] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The county of Gloucestershire has seen some turbulent times over the centuries , not least of them in the present one . |
| 14 | The plane loomed drunkenly above them like an abandoned toy , which only seemed to magnify the tragedy and their miraculous escape . |
| 15 | Markby nodded towards the line of people ahead of them on the flagged pathway to the church door . |
| 16 | When they reached the base of the steep drop into the valley , they spotted Bob Lamb striding out ahead of them at a brisk pace . |
| 17 | They came , with a yell that crossed the fields ahead of them like a sourceless bellow out of the air . |
| 18 | We 've already been working closely with them for a long time because of the shared ownership . |