Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] them [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was disagreement between the two companies as to whose responsibility would be the making of this towpath , so that in the end they built between them a new bridge just beyond the bottom lock . |
| 2 | This courting dance seemed to them a grotesque parody . |
| 3 | The Austrians joined in because it seemed to them the best way to avoid a resuscitation of ‘ big Bulgaria ’ . |
| 4 | She sought out Alix , to tell her of her plans to remarry , and they spent a long evening , over spaghetti and Hirondelle , talking of what already seemed to them the distant past . |
| 5 | Conversely slave-owners and self-lords on the whole stood by the system because it seemed to them the very foundation of their society and their class . |
| 6 | In other words , rats with hippocampal lesions have difficulty in refraining from punished responses because they can not remember what happened to them the last time that they did whatever it was that led to the punishment . |
| 7 | 1.3. a Although only 58 institutions provided the full questionnaire , they taught between them a large number of courses . |
| 8 | Colour came later , even in the glass of the great east window ; first there was only the shape of comparative light , then gradually the lattice-work of the lead cames , a filigree of shapes that had no meaning until the warmth of approaching dawn conjured into them cloudy reds and blues and greens , and with every minute breathed into them a purer brightness and a sharper clarity . |
| 9 | I went through them a second time with the copper who came round here . ’ |
| 10 | They even brought with them the distinctive knocker which was later returned to Oxford in the late nineteenth century . |
| 11 | If people were making demands on him for what he owed them , he should assemble them and lay before them a fair statement of his past transactions , of his present condition and his future prospects . |
| 12 | Startled , she looked up at him , met his eyes , and saw in them a searching expression that made her heart jerk in astonishment . |
| 13 | But the secular mind looked to them a starved mind , desolate of passion because robbed of faith , and it never occurred to them to doubt that religion possesses and monopolises the spiritual life . |
| 14 | If ‘ fascism ’ appeared to them an appropriate name for their enemy , then perhaps comfortable historians half-a-century later should hesitate before declaring them wrong . |
| 15 | The Romans tended to be suspicious of novelty , and the word ‘ novus ’ had for them a sinister ring , although their memory of the past reminded them that change had often come about , although at first resisted . |
| 16 | They left behind them a mouldering group of small loft buildings whose interior columns might once have been ships ' masts . |
| 17 | Also , as West European capitalism filtered across Germany and set in motion the inevitable homogenisation of markets and language within the customs union , the reaction of the Polish subject people , who were after all not the primary , nor even secondary , beneficiaries of capitalist modes of production and the spread of profit , and who had behind them a different set of cultural and political orientations , was similar to that of the Germans . |
| 18 | Unlike the Scandinavian seafarers , however , the sixteenth-century Russians enjoyed an enormous military advantage over the indigenous people they encountered by having guns , and in addition they had behind them the organized power of the centralized state of Muscovy . |