Example sentences of "be [prep] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as though they had returned to the relationship there had been between them on Ridgery Butts when he had taught her to use the bow , and encouraged her with gentle praise . |
| 2 | And he was right , it had always been between them . |
| 3 | The recollection was faintly depressing , making her realise how little useful or productive communication there had been between them . |
| 4 | It was something he had been wanting to do for over ten years , but , now that he had done it , he had destroy something that had been between them — a mysterious , almost exquisite , promise of delight . |
| 5 | But it was the thought of how things should have been between them . |
| 6 | Or had it been between them , or only in her own highly tuned emotions ? |
| 7 | The chemistry had been between them from the start , waiting only for a wayward spark to ignite it . |
| 8 | We have been through them before . |
| 9 | Scores of people have been through them and their marginal jottings and exclamations are reminders of those who searched and those who found . |
| 10 | I 've been , I 've been through them all and er there 's only one or two that I 've not actually had any contact with actually one way or another . |
| 11 | We have been through them . |
| 12 | And the reasons er for that , it is not necessary to go into them again , we have been through them erm on the erm erm er previous days . |
| 13 | How glad I am for them ! |
| 14 | What a tragedy that must have been for them all . |
| 15 | At the same time , some women in the older generation believed that they were a less significant source of advice and support for their daughters than their own mothers had been for them , and all were concerned to ensure that their support did not amount to ‘ interference ’ ( Blaxter and Paterson , 1982 , especially pp. 174–9 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ The ideal thing would have been for them to keep to their offer of a two-year deal and I would have signed it before the final . |
| 17 | Had it not been for them we would not have known such beautiful places existed . |
| 18 | They are for them nearer to home . |
| 19 | Apart from that erm the scores on the doors forty six postcards were sent out which does n't sound perhaps like very many but is in fact quite a lot of work when you 're having to find people who 's who people 's MPs are for them and so on . |
| 20 | In all cases it gives the teenagers taking part a chance to see if engineering and the motor industry are for them . |
| 21 | It 's an indictment on our society that The Porch is regarded as their home , and we 're only open for five hours a day , and yet they regard us as their family , and what we the servers are for them is the parents that they lack . |
| 22 | It may well be a ‘ parody ’ : the eight songs attributable to Bedyngham are between them supplied with no fewer than twenty-six different texts in four languages ; three remain doubtful as to their form , but two are ballades and three rondeaux , forms well known and widely practised in England at the time . |
| 23 | In fact , blood revenge and warfare are more intense between the constituent subgroupings than they are between them and other groups . |
| 24 | ‘ I think the more arrogant or full of themselves they are , the more they think the songs are about them . |
| 25 | These top directors will not be forgotten in the future , for apart from their films , much has also been about them . |
| 26 | I 've been after them for a long time and I 'll get them for this . ’ |
| 27 | Paul Newman and Robert Redford might now be right for the roles of a pair of outlaws on their last legs who flee to Bolivia to find that civilisation and its increased firepower are after them there as well , but in 1968 they were more an emblem of defiant youth and , rather than be riddled with bullets , they go out with a freeze-to-sepia and some plunky Burt Bacharach music . |
| 28 | The police are after them now . |
| 29 | are after them now . |
| 30 | " The Madam always loved her children , " Nuala said , remembering how proud Katherine had always been of them . |