Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd lie on his bed at three or four in the morning just looking at them with rapt concentration , not reading them , just laying them out , changing which one was next to which one , as if determining some sequence or some relationship between the writers . |
| 2 | The mottled old man two beds away stared at them with poached eyes . |
| 3 | Though it must be remembered that this is no a priori scheme imposed upon the appearances , but rather an interpretation gradually distilled from them by prolonged contemplation . |
| 4 | What we 've done , won one of the points I think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years we 've seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the Russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to , in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones , we 've also looked at them as potential threats because it 's possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those . |
| 5 | It was tacitly agreed between them from long experience . |
| 6 | Their customers often come to them under considerable stress , dependent , short of money , embarrassed and afraid of rejection . |
| 7 | Arrange one or two suitable shrubs that grow with a relaxed , arching habit , and then fill between them with large patches or drifts of herbaceous plants en masse . |
| 8 | It has been brought to my attention that that money , which patients regard as pocket money , is sometimes taken from them by private residential homes to be used as payment . |
| 9 | Rather than taking the piece as a whole she broke it down into smaller parts and then worked on them with separate hands and at varied rhythms . |