Example sentences of "them through the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look . |
| 2 | The Head of Department said he expected that the review would ‘ follow them through the normal day ’ , looking at ‘ the way we run the department ; the way we work according to the syllabus — how we relate to it ; the stock control ; the use of resources ; the teaching content and the skills taught ’ ( verified note of meeting ) . |
| 3 | From time to time Maggie saw Felipe glance at them through the rear-view mirror . |
| 4 | It was on a par with the rest of their good fortune that night — save the missing of Balliol himself — for nothing could more assist their project than to drive hosts of panic-stricken and riderless horses before them through the sleeping camp . |
| 5 | The beadle led them through the gloomy rooms off the main hall where the Court of Common Pleas , Court of Chancery and Court of Requests sat , and down a warren of lime-washed corridors until he stopped in front of a door and rapped noisily with his wand . |
| 6 | Big companies have the cash to sustain them through the long vicissitudes of permit-winning . |
| 7 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
| 8 | On summer evenings rowers on the lake have claimed that they have heard far below them through the still waters the sound of church bells tolling . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The long black limousine drove them through the wintry city . |
| 14 | Whatever was creeping towards them through the half-open door would have them completely at its mercy . |
| 15 | Customs had waved them through the green section . |
| 16 | A moist breath of autumn and ripeness came to them through the open window . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | She took them through the square hall into a sitting-room and offered them sherry . |
| 19 | With revenues plummeting , airlines clamoured for government support to help them through the bad times . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | the sheer weight and ferocity of their charge carries them through the massed ranks of their Moorish adversaries . |
| 22 | Too often businessmen through reticence or unawareness neglect the resources available to them through the local banks and the purpose of this short article is to draw their attention to the servies and assistance available . |
| 23 | 1989 , The Year Of The Microscope ( to Jan ) Largest ever collection of working microscopes on public display ; the public are invited to bring along their own specimens and look at them through the different microscopes . |
| 24 | Managers were encouraged by corporate head office to eradicate such excesses at the work-outs , not to refer them to committees or put them through the proper channels . |
| 25 | I hunted buffalo in the swamps at Bilen ; it was exciting following them through the dense reed beds . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | His hands rested on her shoulders and she could feel the warmth of them through the coarse material of her bodice . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Too late Trent flung the motor cycle into a skid as a steeply-banked riverbed opened before them through the driving rain . |