Example sentences of "them [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had seen them through a strange fuzzy blankness , as if they were constructs of her subconscious which were being projected against her closed eyelids . |
| 2 | ( v ) Separate the embryos from other cellular debris by mouth pipette , wash them through a warm pre-equilibrated drop of M16 + BSA ( Table 5 ) and culture them in the same medium under paraffin oil at 37 C in 5% CO2 in air . |
| 3 | If the compounds are toxic , though , the off-gases may have to be collected and treated , probably by passing them through a granular activated carbon absorber . |
| 4 | He took them through the cavernous littered kitchen , where an old woman in a grey shawl was mixing something in a basin on the table , and down the dark passage to the studio . |
| 5 | She remembered how , side by side , they had hacked and burned the underbrush , borrowed a plough and pulled it themselves , working feverishly to get a little harvest to last them through the first arctic-cold winter . |
| 6 | I fancy that 's what bothers them about a possible American end : whether Harry 's going to do any investigation of his own ideas over here . ’ |
| 7 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 8 | He tried to educate them about the nature of demythologizing , a word of which the press had got hold , and to guide them about the best modern writing on the New Testament . |
| 9 | Scotland does not have national parks at the moment , and many see them as a nasty English invention . |
| 10 | Perhaps Mr Smith 's book and the reaction to it imply that accounts should not have been like this : that it should be possible to take them as a straightforward objective statement of performance . |
| 11 | Having decided what it is in your story that they will have to do , try to switch to thinking of each one of them as a simple human being . |
| 12 | Perhaps she had scarcely heard them , or had taken them as a mere mechanical rejoinder to her own ‘ Do n't hate me ’ . |
| 13 | On the one hand it is evident that the old order is collapsing of its own accord , so any attempt to subvert it would be pointless ; and on the other , none of these authors portrays a main character secure enough in his own moral beliefs to propose them as a new global framework . |
| 14 | There were no clerics nor foreigners amongst them and it was obvious that many of those going in to view the film viewed them as a sad little group . |
| 15 | There are amoebae which gather sandgrains of particular sizes — a process clearly requiring a selection procedure , an instinctive ability to make decisions — using them as a protective outer layer . |
| 16 | When colour was finally re-introduced into Braque 's painting , it was to appear as a completely independent pictorial element , related to solid forms and the space surrounding them , but clearly distinguishable from them as a separate artistic factor . |
| 17 | And ‘ first ’ is a word that suits them , for many recognise them as the finest original instrument group among baroque performers of the present day . |
| 18 | the fact of belonging to the same class , and that of belonging to the same generation or age group , have this in common , that both endow the individuals sharing in them with a common location in the social and historical process , and thereby limit them to a specific range of potential experience , predisposing them for a certain characteristic mode of thought and experience , and a characteristic type of historically relevant action . |
| 19 | If they are purchased through a large department store , the shop will send an expert to fix them for a small extra charge . |
| 20 | As more people choose to enjoy the horse for leisure and sporting activities , the Event will bring together everyone with a serious interest and involvement in horses , and those with the land and resources who may wish to utilise them for a new equine business . |
| 21 | ‘ A ’ were with dressable wounds for the medical wards , ‘ B ’ were for the theatre , as they had wounds needing operative treatment , ‘ C ’ were for as much morphia as we could give them for a quiet inevitable death , ‘ D ’ were corpses . |
| 22 | It looked as if the builder had started off with the plans of a Tudor manor house , swapped them for an Early English cathedral in mid-storey , and then suffered a total loss of confidence and tried to convert it into a Dutch barn . |
| 23 | It 's normally a place for quiet reflection in the midst of the commercial centre of Edinburgh , but this morning it 's full of books – boxes and boxes of them wherever you look – and people sorting them for the annual Christian Aid Book Sale . |
| 24 | If workers are to supply more labour they may require a reward in the form of a higher real wage rate in order to compensate them for the higher marginal disutility of employment . |
| 25 | Should the prosecution now try them for the distinguished Great Mail Robbery or for murder ? |
| 26 | Tom gave a slow , satisfied nod and left them after a last reassuring pat on Faye 's shoulder . |
| 27 | We found the nest with two brown spotted eggs , and the pair hovered overhead as we took a quick look , giving me a chance to photograph them against the blue Arctic sky . |
| 28 | So , for instance , if you wanted access to a management information system on your Unix computer , to an accounts system running on a mainframe , and to a spreadsheet running locally on the PC , it would be possible to reach all of them via the same windowing front-end . |
| 29 | She led them onto a small covered terrace running the full width of the house . |
| 30 | The girl , thin-faced and undernourished , watched with complete indifference as Jessica then took them to the parapet and scattered them onto the turbulent black surface of the river , where they swirled beautifully , made changing patterns as they swept between the steep stone walls . |