Example sentences of "and [prep] them [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | When he crossed the Glen it would be in his own good time , and with an eye to what prizes were left alive for the taking , and for them he would fight as doughtily as any man if he must . |
2 | Nobody else in this dive has any money , and for them it will he a long cold evening . |
3 | The unpainted doors were padlocked and above them he could vaguely make out the name Strauss , the paintwork having been abraded over the years by the weather . |
4 | Many hundreds of casts of these human fossils have since been made , and from them we can learn a good deal about the last appalling hours in the life of Pompeii . |
5 | So if some 500 million years ago , an astronaut , from some other planet passed near the earth , he could easily have noticed in the blue seas , a few new and mysterious turquoise shapes ; and from them he might have guessed that life on earth had really started . |
6 | It 's a sort of primitive law of survival — find someone worse off than yourself and beside them you will blossom . |
7 | And without them we could n't function properly . |
8 | The approaching flames were nearer now , and beyond them he could see the villagers trying to peer through the smoke to make out what was happening . |
9 | He was speaking to someone and beyond them I could see a brightly lit room with vast chandeliers and women in white dresses . |