Example sentences of "them at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recognition was a blow , though by no means a fatal one , to the UNITA rebels , who have been fighting government soldiers since January , having lost to them at the election in September . |
| 2 | He could feel them at the small of his back , feel the scratch of the lavender garland which she still held . |
| 3 | Now she has refined those skills with the help of judo and is putting them at the service of her country . |
| 4 | ‘ We found them at the home of Nigel , your predecessor . |
| 5 | ‘ It will please the Colonel to see them at the breakfast-table in the morning , ’ I-said . |
| 6 | She thinks the microwave ‘ has changed our perceptions of time , much as telephones changed them at the turn of the century ’ . |
| 7 | perhaps the Company 's lack of comment on its own future , which must increasingly have been worrying them at the turn of the century . |
| 8 | All in all , it is in no way surprising that Nietzsche should have put them to one side soon after writing them at the turn of the year . |
| 9 | ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said . |
| 10 | It would be better to try and beat them at the bottom of the curve rather than when the South Africans were improving . |
| 11 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 12 | But a lot of them at the bottom of the garden . |
| 13 | At this I quickly joined them at the bottom of a long rickety iron ladder which led into the water ballast tanks and found them hauling out several cases which had been concealed there . |
| 14 | Instead of wooing the only people who should really matter — the fans — soccer often seems to leave them at the bottom of their list of priorities . |
| 15 | We could build a stable , put them at the bottom of the garden and how expensive the |
| 16 | If you are over the limit and have goods to declare , keep them at the top of your luggage or in a separate parcel . |
| 17 | They found their parents waiting for them at the top of a wide terrace of marble steps , and the governor 's aide-de-camp conducted them to the reception through a series of lofty , marble-floored chambers forty feet high . |
| 18 | She would know at once when the right people entered the from the moment she looked upon them at the top of the wide staircase . |
| 19 | The aim , to keep them at the top of the sport . |
| 20 | He jumped brilliantly and I decided to put the pressure on to get away from them at the top of the hill . |
| 21 | Do n't you have to do you no cos if you trim them at the top to bush out |
| 22 | When they returned , thousands awaited them at the airport with Yamamoto to the fore . |
| 23 | One always sees them at the airport in Geneva — they 've got a numbered bank account in Switzerland |
| 24 | Mrs Castle , as it turned out , had opposed this allowance , again on the characteristically doctrinaire grounds that an allowance which made it necessary for the disabled to purchase motor cars would place them at the mercy of the commercial interests of motor manufacturers . |
| 25 | Does he agree that it is now essential that he withdraw the Asylum Bill now under consideration and instead institute a proper system of legal appeal that gives automatic rights of appeal to political asylum seekers and does not leave them at the mercy of his erroneous decisions ? |
| 26 | In contrast , Andrea Lansley 's richly coloured , monumental compositions celebrate her body and focus on her physical and sensuary experiences , placing them at the centre of her work . |
| 27 | Referring to the third stage of negotiations between Israel and its neighbours , he warned that if the Arab negotiators continued to raise the question of the occupied territories " placing them at the centre of discussions … we shall know that their intentions are not directed towards peace " . |
| 28 | Secondly , as the weights are derived from analysis of individuals there is a serious problem of applying them at the level of wards or districts where the information is readily available only in aggregate . |
| 29 | Then would having a good head for numbers be the sort of thing that would individuate them at the level of their soul ? |
| 30 | Luib took the practice sword from him with a nod , and he joined them at the edge of the field . |