Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their words fluttered between them like lubricious little doves . |
| 2 | Two thousand five hundred volunteers advanced on the salt depot in successive waves of twenty-five , defying orders to retreat and offering no resistance when the police laid about them with clubs , kicking and beating those who fell . |
| 3 | I dutifully read through them with sinking feelings and , sometimes , a touch of nausea . |
| 4 | He asked for them to be clearly marked , packed in damp moss and sent to Lord Cornbury 's by Oxford Chapel , ‘ where I am to be around generally any morning before ten if you ever have time to call ’ . |
| 5 | Or had Washington and Moscow reached some grand design in which Iran divided between them as part of a plan for world condominium . |
| 6 | They divided between them about one-fourteenth of the land surface of the globe ( if we exclude Asiatic Russia ) . |
| 7 | Her body bounced between them in the light gravity . |
| 8 | It beat about them on the wind as men shook their fists and shouted , faces shining . |
| 9 | I shouted after them in hoarse astonishment . |
| 10 | And neither of the other ships changed position as we fled past them towards deep space . |
| 11 | Sylvie moved towards them at once . |
| 12 | The rushes on the floor were none too clean : hungry wolf-hounds foraged amongst them for bits of food and Corbett heard the squeak and scamper of rats . |
| 13 | When she returned to New York , she bumped against them with a vengeance . |
| 14 | But the characters played by Leslie Banks in The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ) , or Robert Donat in The 39 Steps ( 1935 ) , are archetypically English in their capacity to muddle through , triumphing over the dark forces ranged against them by their flexibility of mind . |
| 15 | The Woodvilles had given no grounds for complaint when he moved against them at the end of April , and the protectorate was still viable in mid June when he chose to end it . |
| 16 | The Woodvilles had given no grounds for complaint when he moved against them at the end of April , and the protectorate was still viable in mid June when he chose to end it . |
| 17 | He joked with them like a cheerful , older brother and sang one or two shockingly rude Army songs that made them both giggle . |
| 18 | In 1916 he moved with them to England , where he was commissioned . |
| 19 | A Briton known to leaders of a charity based in Northampton discovered them and fled with them to the relative safety of Split . |
| 20 | Thoughts about how the spectacles would appear to me if I moved towards them leftwards must be related in the correct way to thoughts about how they would look if I moved above them to the right ; thoughts about their being artefacts must be related to thoughts about their not existing before a certain time or not coming into existence in the kitchen as the kettle boils . |
| 21 | He was one of 4 youths who attacked jogger , Paul Lanighan because he accidently bumped into them in the street . |
| 22 | The Ranters were a group of extreme religious libertarians who believed that God dwelt inside them as an inner light . |
| 23 | Catalonia fell to the Nationalists during January and early February ; as Franco 's armies advanced , taking 200,000 prisoners , half a million civilian and military refugees fled before them into France , among them Azaña and several members of the Republican government . |
| 24 | Once a month we reported to them on the editorial , marketing and financial developments of the magazine . |
| 25 | Having been a hostage among the Huns himself , he had called in Hunnic troops to support the usurper Joannes in 425 ; he fled to them after his defeat at the hands of Boniface in 432 ; and he was probably behind their destruction of the Burgundian kingdom in the mid-430s . |
| 26 | Dependent on relief helicoptered to them by the American armed forces , the mountain refugees are still losing their young and their old to malnutrition , cold and disease . |
| 27 | The American geneticist Curt Stern was the first to distinguish between these two ways in which a change in a gene can alter the resulting structure : he referred to them as changes in ‘ prepattern ’ and in ‘ competence ’ . |
| 28 | In 1712 Blackmore referred to them as ‘ the shame and heavy burden of the earth ’ . |
| 29 | We always referred to them as those ladies of the stage . |
| 30 | Yet , at the same time , the wording of the administration of the bread and wine , which referred to them as the ‘ body and blood ’ of Christ , implied the real presence so important in Luther 's theology . |