Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] they the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where sharp edges and light cut into them the pointed back end of the brush was used to draw through them . |
| 2 | the first test for them the giant slalom … a three quarter of a mile long downhill race … just like ski-ing … and after the downpour this morning it was just as slippy for the bikes … |
| 3 | the first test for them the giant slalom … a three quarter of a mile long downhill race … just like ski-ing … and after the downpour this morning it was just as slippy for the bikes … |
| 4 | Even Ceauşescu 's critics inside the Communist Party revealed how strong a hold over them the anti-agricultural ideology of Marxism possessed . |
| 5 | Even John Stuart Mill who , as one would expect , greatly admired Socrates , describing him in On Liberty , rather extravagantly , as " the head and prototype of all subsequent teachers of virtue " and " the acknowledged master of all the eminent thinkers who have since lived , " was moved to protest at this probably misplaced generosity : " The Athenian Many , of whose irritability and suspicion we hear so much , are rather to be accused of too easy and good-natured a confidence , when we reflect that they had living in the midst of them the very men who , on the first show of an opportunity , were ready to compass the subversion of the democracy . " |
| 6 | Peter Rainford was unpleasantly attentive but his wife was quite happy with Felipe , and Maggie 's heart sank as they arranged to go round the Alhambra with them the next day . |
| 7 | Were you having trouble with them the other night ? |
| 8 | Whatever the difference of view held across the House , given that CTCs are funded by public money , will the Secretary of State take urgent steps to give parents whose children are refused admission to them the same right of appeal that is available in respect of all other publicly-funded schools ? |
| 9 | Have a word with them the next time you 're in |
| 10 | In his address to them the Holy Father stressed that the era of Missionaries has not ended . |
| 11 | ‘ They are looking fresher and bouncier , and I just sense there has been a lot more energy about them the past 10 days . |
| 12 | ‘ But I never felt remorse about them the same way I did about him . |
| 13 | Five year students , they gave a party for them the other evening about fifty of them must have turned up . |
| 14 | Here , following the banner of reform , led by the gentlemen of that most aristocratic Whig Government , led by Lord Grey , Lord Melbourne , Lord John Russell , they saw for a time before them the high road to a better and fairer ordering of society . |