Example sentences of "them [subord] they [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would hardly have been harmony between them if they had the same desires , if their interests coincided , if they were a threat to each other . |
| 2 | Normally she looked down her nose at men and then ignored them unless they needed the sharp edge of her tongue . |
| 3 | Two solutions might occur to ingenious engineers , indeed did occur to them when they encountered the same problem , again in the analogous case of radar . |
| 4 | Then coral pink walls of rock closed about them as they took the deep cut into Wells . |
| 5 | Athelstan gauged it to be about two o'clock in the afternoon and this was confirmed by a servant who bumped into them as they passed the great hall . |
| 6 | Manningham , a burly fifty-year-old with an aggressive manner and a paunch , met them as they descended the far side of the bridge . |
| 7 | There was no contact between them as they toured the magnificent sixth-century shrine . |