Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] them [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fincara cried , and light flared over them the woman 's laughing face , and Adam 's burning blindness . |
| 2 | When the vote went against them the Poles simply marched in and took by force the areas they considered rightfully theirs . |
| 3 | But the secular mind looked to them a starved mind , desolate of passion because robbed of faith , and it never occurred to them to doubt that religion possesses and monopolises the spiritual life . |
| 4 | A seminar held by Lothian and Borders Police in connection with road safety issues involving the older road user revealed that a key element to ensure enhancement of the safety of this group requires guidance to impress upon them the importance of individual responsibility . |
| 5 | This courting dance seemed to them a grotesque parody . |
| 6 | Back at Stuart Street I found Fenella and Lisabeth and Miranda and Doogie busy decorating the staircase with brightly coloured tinsel streamers which had clumps of real holly tied into them every eighteen inches or so . |
| 7 | Colour came later , even in the glass of the great east window ; first there was only the shape of comparative light , then gradually the lattice-work of the lead cames , a filigree of shapes that had no meaning until the warmth of approaching dawn conjured into them cloudy reds and blues and greens , and with every minute breathed into them a purer brightness and a sharper clarity . |
| 8 | It was to drive another nail into the coffin , into the public service 's coffin , to go alongside compulsory competitive tendering , erosion of working conditions and compulsory redundancies just to satisfy their own political dogma not caring about the citizens of this country , whose quality of life depends on them the services provided by the public sector . |
| 9 | ‘ I have been alarmed at the easy way the Labour Party has in recent years allowed certain factions in society to dictate to them the philosophical approach they should be following . |
| 10 | Unemployment steals from them the economic conditions which supported the new wave of feminism in the sixties and early seventies , but the welfare state , the provision of child benefit , minimal as it is , and supplementary benefit , mean they can survive in the absence of jobs and wages of their own . |
| 11 | Active edges , on the other hand carry with them a specification of the supporting edges which they need , but as yet have not found , in order to become complete . |
| 12 | Not long afterwards the protesters also dispersed , obeying the order of the chief steward to take with them the newspapers on which they had been sitting . |
| 13 | Yet far from ensuring loyalty to the status quo , their elevated position developed in them a sense of their own importance and dignity which gave them the confidence to question the conventions of tsarist society . |
| 14 | The Spirit of God came upon Christian individuals in order to create in them a quality of life that would otherwise be beyond their powers . |
| 15 | They are custodians of a vast variety of potatoes — hundreds of genetically differing kinds , no doubt containing between them the secrets of natural disease resistance , tolerance of climate change , chemical-free extended shelf-life , frying without fat absorption and who knows what other desirable characteristics . |
| 16 | Roger Gernet , hereditary warden of the royal forests of Lancaster , had seized this opportunity to exact from them an ox for winter pasture and a cow for summer pasture , and had prevented them from taking housebote and firebote in the forest . |
| 17 | Students of literature who used concordance packages on mainframes commonly asked the computer to produce for them a complete print-out of their chosen concordance , and then took it home to consult in the traditional manner , turning the pages of a sheaf of paper . |