Example sentences of "[prep] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I was able to do in that instance was play all the symphonies through with the orchestra and then forget about them for three months . |
| 2 | There had been a kind of innocence about them at that stage , Rufus thought . |
| 3 | I 've not heard any grumbles about them at all . |
| 4 | And most of the other wordings discussed have no sense of ‘ request ’ about them at all . |
| 5 | What I was talking about are your inclinations and I would suggest that you know nothing about them at all . ’ |
| 6 | It seemed to Schmidt that even though the recollections made her sad , talking about them at all was the beginning of a means to recovery . |
| 7 | Obviously neglects them and does not care about them at all . |
| 8 | As I say we know nothing about them at all , we 've never ever owned one . |
| 9 | Do you know anything about them at all , their form and what sort of leagues they play in ? |
| 10 | erm Do n't really know much about them at all erm they are an old boys side erm but erm we really do n't know too much about them . |
| 11 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 12 | Most of them went through the ritual of gazing about them with curious eyes in search of a familiar face among the crowds . |
| 13 | Penelope had taken note of the two quite personable looking men who had just come into the hall ! and were standing looking about them with some bewilderment , as if uncertain what they ought to do . |
| 14 | Then they began to glance about them with jealous , embittered eyes , wondering if someone other than they had been saved , whether God had favoured one and not another . |
| 15 | She had been surprised by his view of the Tech-Greens , however , and dismissed much of what he said about them as paranoid hysteria . |
| 16 | They are just as much a product of the youth system as any youngster from the FA School of excellence though — so I reckon were OK to gloat about them in future years : - ) ) |
| 17 | I am presently considering what measures should be included in the first Welsh Agri-Environment Plan and will consult widely about them in due course . |
| 18 | Although I recognised several , there was a formidable blankness about them in that setting which precluded mutual acknowledgment . |
| 19 | I found it a bit odd that a sensible girl should write about them in that — that romantic way . ’ |
| 20 | I myself , for example , tend to be an old-fashioned Coleridge and psychologistic critic , you know , I look for motives in Shakespearean characters , in ways which Elsie Knights told us we should n't do , and I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
| 21 | And I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
| 22 | My hon. Friend the Member for Hyndburn ( Mr. Hargreaves ) spoke eloquently about them in general and about how they would apply in his particular case . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's why human rights violations , even those by Idi Amin in Uganda , have been such embarrassments , because you ca n't legally do anything about them in international law , ’ Prof Wilkinson says . |
| 24 | And shortly afterwards the television carries a special report about them in all the four main languages — Malay , Chinese , Tamil and English . |
| 25 | I 've read about them in one of my stories . |
| 26 | I 'll question you about them in one hour . ’ |
| 27 | Our dramatis personae are the people who inhabit these places and the people who speak about them in various public ways . |
| 28 | Tell me about them in incredible detail . " |
| 29 | As far as I know , the first person to discuss black holes was a Cambridge man called John Michell , who wrote a paper about them in 1783 . |
| 30 | If you are new to machine knitting and the electronic is your first machine and you want to know more about these accessories , I 've written about them in this month 's Silver punchcard feature . |