Example sentences of "[prep] they [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He chatted on about them for the rest of the journey , as she had hoped he would , and she learnt that they could n't be better looked after . |
| 2 | Individually or collectively , they must have made a decision to keep their wits about them for the committee meeting . |
| 3 | It beat about them on the wind as men shook their fists and shouted , faces shining . |
| 4 | ‘ She 'll want to take a look at those eyes of yours , whether anything can be done about them at the moment or not , and even if it is Boxing Day . ’ |
| 5 | Well I was very sad about them at the time and if you may remember , I did say publicly er that I very much hoped the Conservatives would think again and rejoin the Conservative Party . |
| 6 | Jones responded by reminding everyone that the DOE had been funding his work for nearly three years already , that he had positive results ready to publish , that the DOE funding agent had encouraged him to go ahead and that he was due to speak about them at the Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore during 1–4 May . |
| 7 | They were stars of the hard left , but we have heard little about them during the election struggle . |
| 8 | I learned about them during the course of visiting various wholesale food markets in France : visits which proved a great deal more instructive than a thousand meals in restaurants , however good , could ever be . |
| 9 | Parents and others may want to know what has been said about them during the course of an investigation and what information has been recorded about the child . |
| 10 | Well I do n't agree with that , I think that when your in love with someone you want to be with them all the time , you think about them during the day , you think about them at night , you just want to be with them and usually you like how they look , you like how they talk , they like , you like how they treat you and er to me that 's , its wonderful , just |
| 11 | Even if you have problems , there is very little you can do about them in the middle of the night . |
| 12 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 13 | BBC television 's reporter on the Prime Minister 's election tour , Mr John Simpson — an embodiment of the communicating class — wrote about them in the Spectator with special rage . |
| 14 | A man as highly educated as Augustine changed his mind about them in the course of his life . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's just that you do get rather obsessive about them in the city . |
| 16 | If your client is in a trade , say baking , then you must deal with his trade journals , Clients are sensitive enough about what is said about them in the consumer press but when negatives appear in their own trade journal , the sparks fly at your next client meeting . |
| 17 | And he added : ‘ I 'm just going to take the ball off them at the back in Italy as I did in England . |
| 18 | The sand gets shaken off them at the knockout . ’ |
| 19 | The fingers were long , unnaturally thin , the skin on them so clear it seemed he could see right through them to the bone itself . |
| 20 | DeVore met those eyes and saw through them to the emptiness beyond . |
| 21 | What he lacks , though , is White 's flayed Christian moral sense : hs profound , compassionate identification with his characters ' sufferings , and through them with the world 's . |
| 22 | ‘ I can leaf through them on the train , and they might give me something to go on . ’ |
| 23 | If you intend to tile over existing tiles , you will have to drill holes through them for the masonry pins . |
| 24 | They hardly expected to see the BMW waiting for them at the dockside , but after they had parked the car and got the ticket , they began to look at their watches , and each other . |
| 25 | They found their parents waiting for them at the top of a wide terrace of marble steps , and the governor 's aide-de-camp conducted them to the reception through a series of lofty , marble-floored chambers forty feet high . |
| 26 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where the seller delivers to the buyer a quantity of goods less than he contracted to sell , the buyer may reject them , but if the buyer accepts the goods so delivered he must pay for them at the contract rate . |
| 27 | ( 3 ) Where the seller delivers to the buyer a quantity of goods larger than he contracted to sell and the buyer accepts the whole of the goods so delivered he must pay for them at the contract rate . |
| 28 | Two species can be viewed in our special facility for them at the park — the Indian Fruit Bat , which inhabits the rain forests and the smaller Egyptian Fruit Bat which prefers to roost in large colonies in open caves and buildings . |
| 29 | Various local councillors and moral guardians were waiting for them at the venue , having read local press reports that the Fabs ' travelling show included a rather racy striptease revue . |
| 30 | The emigrants ' discomfort was aggravated by tantalising radio reports of the steaming soup tureens , hot water and clean clothes waiting for them at the reception centre in Hof , West Germany . |