Example sentences of "them [prep] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | When his wife ( Pat Heywood ) meets him at John o' Groats , they do not speak at all or , if they do , we can not hear them as if they were already far away . |
| 2 | The Labour Party talked of them as if they were filled with caramels . ’ |
| 3 | There is a frisson between them as if they have discovered a game of role-playing which both find sexually stimulating . |
| 4 | In fact Major Wiseman 's letter preserves an inaccurate memory — not surprising after so long — of the actual circumstances , for it conflates the events of twelve days and relates them as if they had happened on the same night . |
| 5 | Not just accept them as if they 're inevitable . |
| 6 | They sat down at the table , and took out of their pockets packets of cigarettes , lighters and calculators , placing these objects carefully in front of them as if they were necessary equipment for some game they were about to play . |
| 7 | I have it in my power to choose my thoughts and lead them as if they are flocks and herds . |
| 8 | Where the programme is most revealing is in its assumption that the proper way of handling young refugees was to treat them as if they were entrants to a minor public school . |
| 9 | His harsh voice shouted at them as if they were at the top of the rigging , rather than a stone 's throw from his feet . |
| 10 | But the eastern Europeans have tried to put the past four decades behind them as if they had never existed . |
| 11 | I hate the fact that , during election campaigns , we all have to suck up to the idiots , pay court to them , treat them as if they were intelligent , thoughtful stalwarts of democracy , careful weighers of pros and cons , when in point of fact they 're just idiots . |
| 12 | ‘ They said they felt midwives treated them as if they were stupid , ’ says Mrs Kelsall . |
| 13 | ( Compare Alice Fell , The Solitary Reaper , and many other poems where Wordsworth assimilates other people 's experiences and tells them as if they were his own . ) |
| 14 | Then he leaned towards her and took both her hands in his and began to study them as if they were entirely new creations , the like of which he had never seen before . |
| 15 | Old Joseph was glad he kept the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since then he has taken them out and displayed them as if they had come in with the post . |
| 16 | Too often , the loss of these senses results in older people being treated as if they were mentally impaired , with people talking to them as if they were slightly silly , or as if they had reverted to infancy . |
| 17 | He looked slightly past them as if they had already been and gone . |
| 18 | Practitioners working with step-children and step-families emphasize the importance of understanding the particular needs of step-families and not treating them as if they were two-parent families . |
| 19 | And one way of negating other people is to treat them as if they are not there . |
| 20 | Cecilia turned the pages of her address book , she turned them slowly , she scrutinized them as if they fascinated her . |
| 21 | That he could not command the bench of bishops into a unified stance on political affairs reflects less upon him than upon the variety of episcopal origins and experience : royal clerks may have been increasing among the bishops , but it is a mistake to regard them as if they were all identical in background and outlook . |
| 22 | She 'd wiped their tears , she 'd wiped their botties , and she 'd loved them as if they were her own . |
| 23 | I find myself deferring to them as if they were consultants . |
| 24 | The Spirit is his parting gift to the Church to make his presence as real to them as if they were listening to him teaching beside the Sea of Galilee : and the Spirit can do more for us than ever Jesus could have done had we been his contemporaries . |
| 25 | Thinking of the faith as though it were a philosophical position , and of those who had come to preach to them as if they were travelling intellectuals , led the Corinthians to imagine themselves as judges between the various emphases they heard . |
| 26 | Gets used to using them as if they 're real . |
| 27 | His slacks and sweater were well-styled and good , but he managed to wear them as if they were about to fall off him . |
| 28 | Each gets a final polish with his cloth , and he grins into them as if they were mirrors . |
| 29 | He felt uncomfortable , uneasy at the way the Prince and Gaveston hardly spared them a glance whilst their companions at table treated them as if they simply did not exist . |
| 30 | They snarled at them as if they were criminals and took their papers as if they 'd like to tear them to shreds . |