Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] they the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One small colony remained all the time on their beach , an isolated solitary place of grey pebbles below greenish breakwaters ; high above them the blind-eyed office blocks glittered pink and yellow in the sun . |
| 2 | High above them the constant roof of clouds would merely lighten and darken in a long solar axial period of 116.8 days . |
| 3 | People often turn from fiction to biography as they get older , I expect because the real world comes to seem more mysterious and more valuable to them the closer they come to leaving it . |
| 4 | Lord Reid delivered the leading opinion in the House of Lords and he stated the general principles in fatal accidents claims as follows at p217 : They [ the dependants ] are entitled to such a sum as will make good to them the financial loss which they have suffered and will suffer as a result of the death . |
| 5 | He 's worried about them the whole time . |