Example sentences of "[vb past] to them [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unaware that they were being treated to a rhetoric bath , foreign reporters demanded a translation , whereupon Mohamed Salam , a Lebanese AP staffer , turned to them with grim cynicism . |
| 2 | Most of the rainforests belong to developing countries which have to resort to milking their most precious resource to make ends meet , and to pay back money lent to them by Western countries . |
| 3 | Otes , to the west of Stup and Azici , fell to them in early December . |
| 4 | I listened to them with great interest . |
| 5 | They spoke no Indonesian , even less than ourselves , but talked warmly and directly to us in their tribal language as we did to them in gentle English . |
| 6 | As the Devil ( feeling the final breath of his adversary leaving him ) lurched forward to seize his prize , and as the demons howled their triumph like a frenzied pack of wolves falling upon their slaughtered prey , Jesus appeared to them in terrifying power . |