Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] them 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 | And yesterday their lawyer told the Old Bailey : ‘ It brought home to them the serious nature of what they had done . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Ahead of them the weathered brick of the garden wall , touched with Virginia creeper , looked warm in the morning sun . |
| 6 | Ahead of them the dark shadow of the trees waited . |
| 7 | 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 . |