Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] they the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All around them the other coolies stared in disbelief at the sight of their tormentor so astonishingly struck down before their eyes ; then the floodwaters of their hatred burst some invisible dam , and several men dashed forward screaming incoherently to slash at the kneeling man 's head and shoulders with their coupe-coupes . |
| 2 | The first rays of the sun were gilding the grassy hillsides visible through the trees , and all around them the thick green roof of the jungle was gradually coming alive with the cries of darting , bright-hued birds . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Not for them the traditional lunchtime saunter down to the pub , then off to the match with their mates . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Not for them the sudden exhilaration of Crick and Watson on discovering the structure of DNA ( a rare thrill , even in the natural sciences ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They were temporary , not permanent , migrants : not for them the single journey to a new land . |
| 9 | I lay there trying to square what I heard with the new enthusiasm derived from Edward and Laura , for I 'd left the Lodge around two in the morning , ready to set off with them the next day in search of the horizon . |
| 10 | Before them the bevelled slope , fifteen feet high , cut off from them the whole upper expanse of Aurae Phiala , with all its flower-beds and stone walls ; and all its visitors had vanished with it . |
| 11 | And yesterday their lawyer told the Old Bailey : ‘ It brought home to them the serious nature of what they had done . ’ |
| 12 | Richie caught up with them the next morning . |
| 13 | We have to take tough decisions and the sooner we face up to them the better . ’ |
| 14 | I read this poem to a group of 10- and 11-year-old children , pointing out to them the physical immediacy of phrases like ‘ tummy jiggled ’ , ‘ ears/Were cold ’ and ‘ teeth on edge ’ . |
| 15 | Encourage the person to speak-when they stop or get stuck , allow them time to think and repeat back to them the last thing they said to help them find their flow . |
| 16 | Was love implanted , for instance , so that warriors would fight harder for their lives , bearing deep inside them the candlelit memory of the domestic hearth ? |
| 17 | Ahead of them the weathered brick of the garden wall , touched with Virginia creeper , looked warm in the morning sun . |
| 18 | Ahead of them the dark shadow of the trees waited . |
| 19 | Somehow Finnan made sense of the tangled labyrinth , and brought them through the lanes and alleys of boats until they could see looming ahead of them the solid sunwashed stone of the city wall . |