Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun sg] [prep] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not a bit , it 's just that I do n't tell anything , you see , and the Community likes that , they feel I 'm part of them . |
| 2 | ‘ I could understand it with the men , who thought I was coming-on to them , but the women 's reluctance puzzled me , until I discovered that the City people discouraged the country dwellers ( she objects to the word ‘ peasant ’ ) from having their picture taken . |
| 3 | ‘ I could understand it with the men , who thought I was coming-on to them , but the women 's reluctance puzzled me , until I discovered that the City people discouraged the country dwellers ( she objects to the word ‘ peasant ’ ) from having their picture taken . |
| 4 | Much of the time the principal performers were not even aware of what we were doing for them . |
| 5 | Banderas plays the innocent , but he 's savvy enough to know there 's gold in them there coat-tails . |
| 6 | Legitimate drug rackets are after all not only lucrative — there 's gold in them there pills ( Klass 1975 ) — but they also provide the occasion for seeing oneself — if you are involved in them — as sharper , shrewder , and more powerful than those ending up the wrong side of the law . |
| 7 | There 's hope for them yet . |
| 8 | Outwardly they are zombies — unable to move or talk — but Sayer believes there 's life inside them all . |
| 9 | There 's room for them all to do well in this place , that 's the thing . |
| 10 | and I do n't believe that is detailed for us , has enabled us sit here and say , yes , A there 's room for them , and B there 's enough parking , and C there 's enough turning . |
| 11 | on a tin of Batchelor , there 's sugar in them |
| 12 | There is work for them to do . |
| 13 | Where members find it difficult to access courses , seminars , etcetera there is scope for them to organise their own structured discussion groups within their work-place or locality , perhaps using television programmes or videos to provide the structure Subject matter : Technical and regulatory aspects ( knowledge and application ) ; and development of interpersonal and management skills . |
| 14 | For a moment there is indecision among them . |
| 15 | Ross is keeping price and performance pretty much under cover , though there is talk of them shipping samples to Sun in July . |
| 16 | There is heroin in them ! |
| 17 | But a lot of women tend to see Christmas through because there is pressure on them to keep the family together . |
| 18 | The other consultants in the team are expected to integrate around that style and there is pressure for them to be seen to do so . |
| 19 | Mat-forming plants like pinks seem to develop more freely than in conventional borders and , since there is gravel between them , you can walk among your treasures without having to tread on bare soil . |
| 20 | If there is trouble for them they will find a way of paying me back for revealing their names . |
| 21 | And there is room for them all to do better than each other . |
| 22 | I have also had passed to me a petition from Mr containing four thousand five hundred signatures from the national anti-hunt petition er , there is a doubt of the petition or a letter from the tenant farmers but er , there is representation from them . |
| 23 | They were separate , there was space between them , but , like flowers in a vase , they were all standing in the same water . |
| 24 | There was straw and an old woven blanket some herdsman had left there , with a heap of tools ; it smelt savoury and sharp inside , like the smell of a birth ; she was melting , the light blinked around him , and there was sheepskin under them ; her name , which she found carved on the stone , carved by him during vigils while he waited for her there in the days before she could come , was edged in light . |
| 25 | There was room beyond them for a rabble of servants and slaves and others who scratched a living here on the roof of the world , and they were all watching the figures clustered in the centre of the gassy arena . |
| 26 | Well I should say yes they would , I should say there was trouble for them obviously when it was reported . |
| 27 | For a time , there was silence between them . |
| 28 | ‘ You must be mad , insane , ’ Agnes almost yelled at her , only to clap a hand over her mouth and glance towards the door as if expecting it to open and her mother to appear ; and for a while there was silence between them , except for the slight moaning sound coming from Jessie . |
| 29 | Again there was silence between them , but as Mr Beecham stared at this young man , he remembered Martin hinting that his aunt kept the young boy on a tight rein ; and he also went further back and recalled Arthur 's confidence and how he had once described his sister-in-law as a frantic leech . |
| 30 | For a long moment there was silence between them as she stared unseeingly down at her own hand caught in his surprisingly tender grasp . |