Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] them [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her body bounced between them in the light gravity . |
| 2 | A Briton known to leaders of a charity based in Northampton discovered them and fled with them to the relative safety of Split . |
| 3 | Dependent on relief helicoptered to them by the American armed forces , the mountain refugees are still losing their young and their old to malnutrition , cold and disease . |
| 4 | Mother and daughter were glad of each other 's company then , while the electric storm boomed and crashed around them in the black night , as if aiming for this one exposed place . |
| 5 | A moist breath of autumn and ripeness came to them through the open window . |
| 6 | Too late Trent flung the motor cycle into a skid as a steeply-banked riverbed opened before them through the driving rain . |
| 7 | The magazine Der Spiegel recently published the results of an opinion poll revealing that 14 per cent of Germans still think Jews were partly to blame for what happened to them in the second world war , 36 per cent believe Jews ‘ have too much influence ’ , and more than 50 per cent believe it is time for Germany to forget the past and move on . |
| 8 | Odysseus met with them in the wine-dark sea of the Mediterranean and called them Cyclops , Scylla and Charybdis . |
| 9 | Next season they will replace Wigan , who finished below them in the four club ballot held during the league 's annual meeting at Preston . |
| 10 | Afterwards , the old gentleman walked with them to the little white house . |
| 11 | Again it was as if something stared through them from the other side . |
| 12 | More than half the 30,000 Syrians to have entered Lebanon were now approaching the city that lay below them in the early morning heat , its dim perspective merging into the Mediterranean . |
| 13 | A Range Rover pulling a horsebox sped towards them round the next bend , straddling the middle of the lane and causing Mossop to swerve through a muddy ditch at the roadside . |
| 14 | Until his family was safe , he had declined to make any formal statement , but now he went with them to the American Embassy and swore out an affidavit about what he had seen as a DIA agent assigned to DEA NARCOG , Nicosia . |
| 15 | The first generation might practise some " levelling " — an adaptation and " evening-out " of any highly marked regionalisms in their speech — but would basically stick to the linguistic habits they brought with them from the Caribbean . |
| 16 | Yet even scientific curiosity in such places is minute in this country , and I fear that our national outlook is still tainted by that Anglo-Saxon authoritarianism that the first English settlers took with them to the New World . |
| 17 | From 1931 , threats to his leadership disappeared , Moreover , because the Conservatives took with them into the National coalition elements of the Liberal and Labour parties , the party competition of the 1930s became seriously unbalanced , the left being too shattered and divided to offer effective opposition . |
| 18 | Authors who recognize the significance of manipulation , indoctrination , or ‘ conditioned power ’ ( Galbraith , 1985 ) believe that people may make mistakes in deciding what are their interests , and accept definitions of their interests foisted upon them by the powerful . |
| 19 | I have sat around tables with senior male television executives and listened to them on the one hand bemoan the lack of good women presenters and on the other make suggestions of possible women candidates so inappropriate as to be laughable . |
| 20 | An illustrated booklet to accompany the series was prepared by a member of the Ipswich Tutorial Class and questions which arose during the post-broadcast class discussion were forwarded to Mrs. Adams who dealt with them during the following week 's transmission . |
| 21 | In the afternoon Bathsheba called her workers together , and spoke to them in the old hall of the farmhouse . |
| 22 | He turned towards the two men , smiled at them for the first time . |
| 23 | Their conversation ceased as the eloquent tones of Michael Stein carried towards them on the public address system . |
| 24 | But to me , who had grown up without knowing want , the prosperity which accrued around them through the fifties and early sixties was of little account . |
| 25 | Three months ago a worker died and another was badly injured when a lorry ploughed into them on the hard shoulder . |
| 26 | Instead he was still with the group when Jesus came and stood with them in the upper room ; he was still there , crucially , when Christ questioned him searchingly . |