Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fingers were long , unnaturally thin , the skin on them so clear it seemed he could see right through them to the bone itself . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They were stars of the hard left , but we have heard little about them during the election struggle . |
| 4 | It was good enough for them in the old days , and it will be good enough for them again , especially with THE woman out of the way . |
| 5 | see Exod. 14 : 28 , ‘ And the waters returned , and covered the chariots , and the horsemen , even all the host of Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea ; there remained not so much as one of them ’ . |
| 6 | Looking down below them from the top , they saw that a small crater with the remains of a dried-up lake in it was emitting sulphurous vapours from several points . |
| 7 | He 's come round to both our Joe and our Tamar and , heaven knows , he was bitter enough against them at the start . ’ |
| 8 | The pitmen remain underground for eight or nine hours at a time and invariably take food down with them into the pits and eat it with unwashed hands and without a knife and fork . |
| 9 | They found him under the yew tree and after a rather stormy scene , during which Bigwig grew rough and impatient , he was bullied rather than persuaded into going down with them into the great burrow . |
| 10 | This time they mix guitars with sitars for ‘ We Will Be Your Guns ’ and encourage residents of Death Row , Tennessee to join in with them on the title track . |
| 11 | His Dad came in with them into the entrance lobby . |
| 12 | Undaunted , the young Scot chased after the opposition in one shoe and came in with them to the final take-over . |
| 13 | Thank you very much , Sir Leonard for that , in th in the beginning of your address you posed the question , what does a company like I B M have to do with a community and then proceeded to answer your question , I think in a most , er , comprehensive way , and I I speak as someone who lives in a county , Hampshire , where I B M has a strong er , base , and I know from personal experience as a volunteer in that county , how much we value the contacts that we have with I B M and the way in which we work together with them in the way that you have described . |
| 14 | There were any number of laden country folk in this concourse , and within the hour there would be still more crowding down upon them from the town , after the market . |
| 15 | The figures are left in the orange colour of the clay , the background painted in round them in the shiny black : a purely decorative variation ; and it has been plausibly suggested that the strange ‘ negative ’ idea was inspired by the custom of washing the background of marble reliefs with a blue or red against which the mainly white figures were left standing out . |
| 16 | I can never be grateful enough to them for the sacrifice they made to keep me at school , when even ten shillings a week would have relieved the pressure on the food bill . |
| 17 | The great , distinguished people of the world do not know that these beggars can in the pride of their souls , look down on them as the unfortunate ones , who are left on the shore for their worldly uses , but whose life ever misses the touch of the lover 's arms . ’ |
| 18 | Unable to get to our treasure , they were decimated by the rain of bolts our forebears showered down on them from the tower of this church . |
| 19 | A square of amber light shone down on them from the open hatch . |
| 20 | She had enticed them in like an old witch , Val said , by talking volubly to them in the garden about the quietness of the place , giving them each a small , gold , furry apricot from the espaliered trees along the curving brick wall . |
| 21 | Singing along to them in the middle of the jungle did seem a little odd , but it kept our minds off things , even if it invited torrents of abuse . |
| 22 | And if you despair of ever getting the baby 's pushchair anywhere near clean , or perhaps those muddy football and rugby boots , just spend five minutes or so on them with the Steamatic . |
| 23 | He asked permission to make the tea , which he did — and brought it in to them with the air of an old family retainer . |
| 24 | So are gilts , especially if you nip in to them before the next — perhaps imminent — interest rate cut . |
| 25 | A couple of anachronisms fighting it out here while real life moved in on them from the east almost unnoticed . |
| 26 | Summarizing the argument , let me say that there are good reasons , based on sociobiological insights into hunting , which lead me to suppose that the cooperation , altruism and mutuality demanded by social-hunting techniques in 4-foot high hominids lacking all modern hunting technology meant that only the sons were likely at first to start to exploit the immense reserves of game which our gelada-like ancestors saw all around them on the savanna grasslands where they lived . |
| 27 | Both men had moved up in the world recently and the evidence of their new wealth was all around them in the curtains , the carpets , the original paintings and the quality of the ornaments and effects . |
| 28 | Matches in hand on the sides all around them in the table and of course the team that has gone very very close to promotion the last two seasons loing losing in the playoff final . |
| 29 | Seagulls , able to detect the appearance of a piece of bread at a hundred yards away , advanced slowly towards them over the shelving ground . |
| 30 | Isabel 's gaze skittered nervously past them to the two men-at-arms , now held at the end of a very businesslike sword attached to the hand of the young man she had seen with Guy at the church . |