Example sentences of "from [pers pn] as they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The happy landowner can then stand at the window smoking a pipe and wave cheerily at the unwelcome hill-walkers , secure in the knowledge that in a few minutes they will be heading back to the car , steam gently rising from them as they blink in distress from behind grisly face-masks of dung . |
| 2 | Terrified , the giant backed away from them as they came towards him and fell head first over the crag , never to be seen again . |
| 3 | Did you not yourself say that our love must be holy ? ’ or when she pointed out that his ‘ lovely poems ’ would have been less lovely if she had not pro vided ‘ the unrest and storm that made them possible ’ : ‘ Beloved I will pray with my whole strength that suffering and temptation may be taken from you as they have been taken from me and that we may gain spiritual union stronger than earthly union could ever be . ’ |
| 4 | The players sat as far away from her as they could , but the smell and the squealing promised to keep them awake all night . |
| 5 | They seemed about thirty or forty yards away from us as they now talked in lower tones with the occasional laugh , obviously unaware of our presence . |
| 6 | But if this is a mistake and animals are properly to be understood as primitive beings , at least as different from us as they are similar , then their modest entitlement to humane treatment , accorded them by common sense and enshrined in the law , might well be vindicated . |