Example sentences of "[prep] they [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I was able to do in that instance was play all the symphonies through with the orchestra and then forget about them for three months . |
| 2 | There had been a kind of innocence about them at that stage , Rufus thought . |
| 3 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 4 | Most of them went through the ritual of gazing about them with curious eyes in search of a familiar face among the crowds . |
| 5 | Penelope had taken note of the two quite personable looking men who had just come into the hall ! and were standing looking about them with some bewilderment , as if uncertain what they ought to do . |
| 6 | She had been surprised by his view of the Tech-Greens , however , and dismissed much of what he said about them as paranoid hysteria . |
| 7 | They are just as much a product of the youth system as any youngster from the FA School of excellence though — so I reckon were OK to gloat about them in future years : - ) ) |
| 8 | I am presently considering what measures should be included in the first Welsh Agri-Environment Plan and will consult widely about them in due course . |
| 9 | I myself , for example , tend to be an old-fashioned Coleridge and psychologistic critic , you know , I look for motives in Shakespearean characters , in ways which Elsie Knights told us we should n't do , and I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
| 10 | And I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
| 11 | Although I recognised several , there was a formidable blankness about them in that setting which precluded mutual acknowledgment . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's why human rights violations , even those by Idi Amin in Uganda , have been such embarrassments , because you ca n't legally do anything about them in international law , ’ Prof Wilkinson says . |
| 13 | I 'll question you about them in one hour . ’ |
| 14 | Tell me about them in incredible detail . " |
| 15 | If you are new to machine knitting and the electronic is your first machine and you want to know more about these accessories , I 've written about them in this month 's Silver punchcard feature . |
| 16 | The referee 's first task of a damp evening was to ask Wasps to change their jerseys in order to avoid confusion and they emerged with a far more waspish look about them in black-and-yellow hoops . |
| 17 | The prince , who took his force into Wales from Chester in good tight order , and at every mile ensured his lines behind him , was on his guard against his own instinctive enthusiasm as well as against Welsh armies , and knew enough about them by this time to feel no surprise that he should probe ever more deeply and carefully into North Wales , and never touch hands with anything more than a darting patrol , gone almost as soon as sighted . |
| 18 | I was one of those people who used to be sort of potty about someone and then go off them within two weeks . |
| 19 | The Tyrells of Gipping , for instance , were closely related to the Darcies and through them with other members of the court group . |
| 20 | The Tyrells of Gipping , for instance , were closely related to the Darcies and through them with other members of the court group . |
| 21 | She felt her feet trailing through the weeds that grew at the side of the track , nettles and thistles tearing her skin as she was dragged through them at high speed . |
| 22 | Schools entering into an entrepreneurial spirit should not , for example , sell school records to promoters of consumer goods or allow journalists or public relations consultants to leaf through them for good stories . |
| 23 | Heather had borrowed his binoculars , Mossop said , and studied the cottage through them for some time . |
| 24 | We went slowly through them in low gear , rolling like a ship in a heavy sea , our rigging of ropes , which lashed all the bags in place , creaking loudly . |
| 25 | Altogether then er , an encouraging set of results and I 'll hand you over to Frank to take us through them in more detail . |
| 26 | The rebels held their fire till the dragoons were within ten yards [ 9 m ] of them , then replied with ‘ a very sharp , popping kind ’ of volley which did such execution that one bystander ‘ saw daylight through them in several places ’ . |
| 27 | Teenage magazines often have stories about girls who fall in love with handsome , exciting young men who do n't care for them at all while ignoring the nice , but rather ordinary , boy-next-door who thinks the world of them . |
| 28 | I would just like to I know we need to the television programmes on about the Gulf and so on , but I 've two young children at home , and I find that yesterday was a very long day because there was just nothing on for them at all B B C two at four o'clock . |
| 29 | Look out for them at major department stores . |
| 30 | You were gon na work for them at one point Rich . |