Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] that surround [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We live in a cause-and-effect world and feel uncomfortable if we can not discover the reasons for the events that surround us . |
| 2 | Youngest of the three were the ‘ Pre-Puberty ’ boys aged ten to thirteen ; they were to be taught ‘ the true facts of their origin , of their life development , and of the dangers that surround them … ’ . |
| 3 | The energy thus captured by the atom will be discharged into the molecules that surround it . |
| 4 | Wedded to their reflections in the waters that surround them , they look like giant gemstones set in the blue . |
| 5 | ‘ Statues of the gods once stood in the niches that surround us , but they were borrowed over the centuries and not returned . |
| 6 | Victorian writers often present themselves as speaking from their fireside to those of their readers , while the stories they tell , like those of Dickens 's narrator , Master Humphrey , may be prompted by the objects that surround them . |