Example sentences of "them [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although it is a newcomer to New York politics , the Coalition proved startlingly effective , distributing more than 100,000 voters ' guides , many of them through the Catholic church . |
| 32 | There was the soft tinkling of pagoda bells in the wind , the scent of jasmine and forsythia , of gardenia and chrysanthemum wafting to them through the great moon door in the wall . |
| 33 | In a typical drive in March 1990 , Penghu fishermen rounded up a mixed herd of 50 to 60 bottlenose dolphins and false killer whales ( Pseudorca ) , and drove them through the narrow channel into Shakang Harbour . |
| 34 | Agnese was leading them through the front door into a cool tiled hallway , strewn with locally woven rugs and sweet with the delicate scent of freesias . |
| 35 | The long black limousine drove them through the wintry city . |
| 36 | Whatever was creeping towards them through the half-open door would have them completely at its mercy . |
| 37 | Customs had waved them through the green section . |
| 38 | A moist breath of autumn and ripeness came to them through the open window . |
| 39 | However , the quantitative methods of the 1960s and 1970s had successfully dealt with large-set vowel-variables ( type 1 ) , quantifying them through the whole range ( or most of it ) in a single unilinear dimension of phonetic variation ( such as raising or backing ) . |
| 40 | Keep them out of the way , take them through the ugliest country you can find , confess them the miserable things they are , and spend nothing on them but for safety and speed … |
| 41 | She took them through the square hall into a sitting-room and offered them sherry . |
| 42 | The sketchily covered breasts that had embarrassed her earlier in the evening were now taut and tingling , and when Tom 's hands came up to cup them through the thin fabric of her blouse she wanted to arch her back and drink in the new sensation with cries of pleasure . |
| 43 | This food was also an invaluable help to passage migrants such as the finches and buntings , helping them put on a few extra grammes of fat to carry them through the next leg of their long journey to winter quarters . |
| 44 | I hunted buffalo in the swamps at Bilen ; it was exciting following them through the dense reed beds . |
| 45 | I saw them through The Fat Controller 's eyes — they were gauche and dowdy , crammed into suitings so ill-fitting that they looked like bolsters stuffed into pillow cases . |
| 46 | His hands rested on her shoulders and she could feel the warmth of them through the coarse material of her bodice . |
| 47 | Their acute hearing had already informed them that only one set of feet was running in the night , the light footfalls vibrating to them through the drum-like quality of the primeval forest floor . |
| 48 | Since you may well be as unfamiliar with the basic concepts as Duchy 's two directors were , we have followed them through the preliminary learning process . |
| 49 | Too late Trent flung the motor cycle into a skid as a steeply-banked riverbed opened before them through the driving rain . |
| 50 | Although the survey vessel was now travelling at a speed faster than light , its occupants experienced no sense of progress other than that which was fed to them through the navigational telemetry . |
| 51 | The road took them between the old splendour of the Khulafa and the Gailani mosques , and across the railway track that wound half the length of the country to Arbil , and out through Housing Project Number Ten , and through the concretescape of Saddam City , the Chairman 's way of marking the end of the Iranian war . |
| 52 | I remember sitting helping to write the cards the night before and we were writing them off a typewritten sheet . |
| 53 | They are taken and inserted ( ‘ struck ’ ) in the same way as softwood cuttings , although many gardeners remove whole sideshoots , pulling them off the main stem with a short portion of bard ( a ‘ heel ’ ) to aid rooting ; neatly trim any ragged edges on the heel , and pinch out the tips of naturally bushy subjects . |
| 54 | They secured eight but also lost three wickets including two run outs , one of them off the last ball . |
| 55 | anyhow , but I found out now that they 're on prescription so , he said this morning you can have some more tablet , no I said I can get them off the old quack |
| 56 | These are n't my lecture notes they I cribbed them off the social psychologist and made copies last night . |
| 57 | Suppose you are having a conference for your sales people to tell them about a new product . |
| 58 | Which means that we talk to them about a reasonable rate at which they can pay their rent . |
| 59 | I thought about writing a letter to The Times and telling them about an important man who beat up his children . |
| 60 | I also told them about the financial statement we had issued and afterwards received a letter asking if I would send on a financial statement , which I did " . |