Example sentences of "that [vb past] among " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the apes that lived among the rooftops of the city scampered down and picked up the peel , then raced back up to his vantage point beside the eaves . |
| 2 | He had rejoiced in its glossy purplish midsummer beauty which had sheltered the gentle ring-doves that cooed among its branches . |
| 3 | Thus nearly four fifths of the perinatal deaths that occurred among women booked at a general practitioner unit did so in a consultant unit . |
| 4 | But " down in the grass itself , between the bushes , in that thick forest trodden by the beetle , the spider and the hunting shrew , the moving light was like a wind that danced among them to set them scurrying and weaving . |
| 5 | Another great jazz composer , the late Billy Strayhorn , wrote ‘ Chelsea Bridge ’ , a side that figured among Duke Ellington 's greatest recordings . |
| 6 | Similar stories could be told of many European kings , princes and nobles in our period ; it is possible to get some notion of the variety that existed among the upper classes . |
| 7 | It says something , perhaps , about the persisting British inability to realise the depth of commitment to something totally new that existed among the Six . |
| 8 | Women left behind by the emigrants , ‘ widows ’ who had not heard from their husbands for decades , daughters growing up without fathers , without grandfathers , without brothers -once they too were old enough to leave — were hungry for men , everyone knew that , and the law made its profits from the devils — Greed and Lust and Envy — that scampered among humans playing a deadly tag in which all the players are caught and brought down , one by one . |
| 9 | It was not a ‘ brilliant ’ movie ; the script was flawed and the premise was suspect , but the underlying presence that Fonda , Hopper and Nicholson caught , perhaps without even realizing it , was an air of tension that prevailed among youth right across the world in 1969 . |
| 10 | First , although rejecting the explanation of creativity that prevailed among medical writers at that time , both Ellis and Bowerman did consider that there was some connection with psychological morbidity , in a more general sense . |
| 11 | She also taught PT and games at the local evangelical school , which has a special place in her affections ; she watched its roll of pupils rise from 100 to 1,000 , and marvelled at the harmony that prevailed among children from the different warring factions . |