Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] them [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her body bounced between them in the light gravity . |
| 2 | It beat about them on the wind as men shook their fists and shouted , faces shining . |
| 3 | When she returned to New York , she bumped against them with a vengeance . |
| 4 | The Woodvilles had given no grounds for complaint when he moved against them at the end of April , and the protectorate was still viable in mid June when he chose to end it . |
| 5 | The Woodvilles had given no grounds for complaint when he moved against them at the end of April , and the protectorate was still viable in mid June when he chose to end it . |
| 6 | He joked with them like a cheerful , older brother and sang one or two shockingly rude Army songs that made them both giggle . |
| 7 | A Briton known to leaders of a charity based in Northampton discovered them and fled with them to the relative safety of Split . |
| 8 | Thoughts about how the spectacles would appear to me if I moved towards them leftwards must be related in the correct way to thoughts about how they would look if I moved above them to the right ; thoughts about their being artefacts must be related to thoughts about their not existing before a certain time or not coming into existence in the kitchen as the kettle boils . |
| 9 | He was one of 4 youths who attacked jogger , Paul Lanighan because he accidently bumped into them in the street . |
| 10 | The Ranters were a group of extreme religious libertarians who believed that God dwelt inside them as an inner light . |
| 11 | Once a month we reported to them on the editorial , marketing and financial developments of the magazine . |
| 12 | Dependent on relief helicoptered to them by the American armed forces , the mountain refugees are still losing their young and their old to malnutrition , cold and disease . |
| 13 | Lenin referred to them as a ‘ separate social stratum ’ , at least until the highest stage of development had been reached . |
| 14 | Yet , at the same time , the wording of the administration of the bread and wine , which referred to them as the ‘ body and blood ’ of Christ , implied the real presence so important in Luther 's theology . |
| 15 | Nancy moved among them for a while , making them welcome , peering into their pale faces with the object of discovering which were her grandchildren . |
| 16 | I peered at them round the end of the house . |
| 17 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 18 | Mother and daughter were glad of each other 's company then , while the electric storm boomed and crashed around them in the black night , as if aiming for this one exposed place . |
| 19 | Piper squirmed between them for a moment , fighting to get free , then went limp . |
| 20 | With a hiss , the double-sided door began to close , just as the figure of Mahon turned the corner and came after them at a terrifying speed . |
| 21 | They called to him twice before he heard , and then he started and came after them at a rapid walk , like a man driven by some urgent pain he could not slough off . |
| 22 | Jenna began heatedly , but he glanced away as his mother came towards them across the lawn . |
| 23 | She tiptoed past them to the chest of drawers , took out a pair of shorts and a sweatshirt and slipped back downstairs to the kitchen . |
| 24 | The door slammed behind them like a thunder clap . |
| 25 | And it seemed to them that there came against them on the part of the Christians full seventy thousand knights , all as white as snow : . |
| 26 | I was with the South African team throughout their travels in Australia and New Zealand and found them an exceptionally nice group ; agonized with them on the eve of the referendum on reforms back in South Africa when there were last-minute scare reports of a major swing to the right wing ; rejoiced with them when the vote when 68% for sanity , a far greater margin than any of us had dared hope for ; and generally enjoyed with them their victories and their considerable achievement in reaching the semi-final stage . |
| 27 | In the third panel they were in Hell , stark naked and having various sharp instruments poked up them by a load of chortling demons . |
| 28 | A moist breath of autumn and ripeness came to them through the open window . |
| 29 | They walked like robots until Doyle yelled , ‘ Stop ! ’ with half his voice whirled away by the wind so that it came to them as a little thread of sound . |
| 30 | IBM came to them with the notion , the firm says . |