Example sentences of "[noun] that surrounded them " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she was on his knee , and their arms were round each other , and though the sun had gone down the garden at that moment was glorious , full of a blaze of splendour that surrounded them like a halo . |
| 2 | The two grand old men of Arcueil , and , and the entire cult of French physics that surrounded them are entertainingly dissected through the period when French physics moved from uncompromising support of newtonianism to its near rejection with the wave theory of light . |
| 3 | Before looking in more detail at who the ‘ Hooligans ’ were , and in order to place the controversies that surrounded them in perspective , it will be helpful to make an imaginative effort to reconstruct the kind of social world in which the original ‘ Hooligans ’ moved . |
| 4 | British writers , he believes , responded to the element as the dangerous and challenging wilderness that surrounded them , whereas the Americans , having their own wilderness inland , were less in awe . |
| 5 | It faintly illuminated the interior wall paintings that surrounded them . |
| 6 | THE most significant feature of Sri Lanka 's provincial elections , which took place on May 17th , was the calm that surrounded them . |
| 7 | Only after many years of mental torment did some Calvinists achieve a certainty of conviction about their elect status , which helped them to cope with , and sometimes to change , the threatening and disturbing world that surrounded them . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , it does contain much revealing information about operatic fees and fascinating insights into the negotiations that surrounded them . |
| 9 | They 're sense of self is such that they do n't see that they have a self to assert , perhaps , or that they are not valid enough as a person , which obviously must stem erm from their early childhood experiences , and from the adults that surrounded them when they were growing and developing that sense of who they are . |
| 10 | They had stood so for more than two hundred and forty years now , victims of the great Ko Ming purges of the 1960s , their ruin becoming , with time , a natural thing — part of the bleak and melancholy landscape that surrounded them . |
| 11 | Fortunately , Luke 's anger seemed to have evaporated along with the steam that surrounded them . |
| 12 | He saw that all the company had dismounted , and were fighting a desperate battle against the pack that surrounded them . |