Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's worried about them the whole time . |
| 2 | ‘ They are looking fresher and bouncier , and I just sense there has been a lot more energy about them the past 10 days . |
| 3 | Anyone in late eighteenth-century London who was anxious to ‘ insure the removal of barrenness ’ or ‘ improve , exalt , and invigorate the body and through them the mental faculties of the human species ’ , need not have looked further than the Temple of Health where Dr James Graham had constructed what he modestly termed his ‘ medico-magnetico-musico-electrical bed ’ . |
| 4 | Housman pays strict attention to these prosodic and structural emphases , conveying through them the Horatian sense of addressing the imagined bystander . |
| 5 | Not for them the traditional lunchtime saunter down to the pub , then off to the match with their mates . |
| 6 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 7 | But enough carousing and photographing … would I mind , my Tasmanian countrymen asked , taking the World Cup back to Sydney for them the following morning ? |
| 8 | She was surprised by the extent of Sue 's gratitude , when she came looking for them the following evening . |
| 9 | For them the Imperial Sun shines on undiminished ! |
| 10 | For them the critical starting date in human history was the one in 1896 when British law was changed to allow motor-cars to be driven without a man preceding them on foot carrying a red flag . |
| 11 | For them the skilful use of mass media may be important , and key contacts in positions of power will be a great help . |
| 12 | There was a car waiting , but because of the fog they abandoned the idea of driving down and went to the railway station , caught a train with minutes to spare , picked up the car that was waiting for them the other end , rang the studio from the car phone to let them know where they were , and ran into London Weekend Television . |
| 13 | Five year students , they gave a party for them the other evening about fifty of them must have turned up . |
| 14 | Homework is done by women whose role as unpaid caretakers of a nation 's dependents forces them out of the competition of the job market , and , still needing to earn , into work which is desperately tedious , which has to be carried out in isolation , thus losing for them the only element which makes tedious work bearable — the cameradie of the factory floor . |
| 15 | For them the Social Charter and its accompanying action programme offer the way forward . |
| 16 | They were temporary , not permanent , migrants : not for them the single journey to a new land . |
| 17 | the first test for them the giant slalom … a three quarter of a mile long downhill race … just like ski-ing … and after the downpour this morning it was just as slippy for the bikes … |
| 18 | the first test for them the giant slalom … a three quarter of a mile long downhill race … just like ski-ing … and after the downpour this morning it was just as slippy for the bikes … |
| 19 | Not for them the sudden exhilaration of Crick and Watson on discovering the structure of DNA ( a rare thrill , even in the natural sciences ) . |
| 20 | Not for them the purposeless Irish custom of the kick upfield which might , with a bit of luck , blunder into touch and ‘ everything can stop for tea ’ . |
| 21 | Not for them the comfortable life ; they might get ideas above their station , which was to devote themselves to hard labour and be grateful for small mercies . |
| 22 | For them the whole range of feelings of shock , disbelief and anger come into play . |
| 23 | These caches usually consist of single prey species , and if the predator does not return for them the resulting bone assemblage should consist of more or less complete skeletons from one or a limited number of species . |
| 24 | For them the vital issue of racial identity confusion does not exist . |
| 25 | Between them the ultimate in praise was : ‘ It works . ’ |
| 26 | Father Crispin and Master Buckingham were also visible , while at the other end of the table were Lady Maude and Benedicta , between them the young nobleman who had made his intentions so blatantly obvious earlier in the day . |
| 27 | Between them the major Dutch breeds ( black-and-whites and the red-and-white dual-purpose Meuse-Rhine-Yssel ) account for 99 per cent of the dairy cows in the Netherlands today , with the black-and-whites averaging more than 6,800kg at 4.4 per cent butterfat , the MRY 6,000kg at 4.3 per cent and the less common Groningen Whiteheaded about 5,700kg at 4.2 per cent . |
| 28 | Greenall is a centre-half and between them the experienced pair have clocked up more than 700 League appearances . |
| 29 | Between them the light-armed men-at-arms formed smaller companies with room to manoeuvre at need , and the knights and cavalry , visible in snatches of blazonry and colour against the dun-coloured slopes , were drawn back somewhat higher in three squadrons . |
| 30 | In the foreground are the old bogies , in the background the old top-cover , and between them the newly-constructed sides . |