Example sentences of "them [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not lugging it up them flipping stairs again ! |
| 2 | Ridiculous making them quarter-hour points — because the burglars knew where you were . |
| 3 | ‘ Why do you call them bouncing handbags ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Francesca 's got four brothers , see , two of them professional singers , two of them by the grace of God ordinary working stiffs in respectable offices . ’ |
| 5 | There are four new cassette decks , two of them twin-transport units taking two cassettes ( KX- W262 at £199.95 and KX-W362 at £249.95 ) and two conventional using two-motor transports with Dolby B , C and Hx Pro and optional remote control ( KX-260 at £149.95 and KX-360 at £179.95 ) . |
| 6 | It has 10,000 sq ft for sales , and 32 staff , 24 of them full-time equivalents . |
| 7 | Why are statistics not kept of trainees whose employers give them full-time jobs later ? |
| 8 | Instead , Frith sent them strange singers , beautiful and sick like oak-apples , like robins ' pin-cushions on the wild rose . |
| 9 | Dr Sachmeyer has to give them European mouths . ’ |
| 10 | But they also brought with them European innovations ; and already , in the winter of 1888 , the bazaars were stocked with articles never before seen : porcelain , lamps , glasses , mirrors , brushes , writing materials , coffee , preserves , biscuits . |
| 11 | However mangled they might be — in pidgin , for example — European languages took with them European concepts . |
| 12 | A tall , dark figure who had no pole moved amongst them issuing commands , and slowly the flatboat drew over to the bank . |
| 13 | A festival held to revive the art attracted hundreds of people , many of them complete novices . |
| 14 | Them twilly things like |
| 15 | You know she used to be so petite , but god them damn legs on her ! |
| 16 | erm And a lot of the time this gentleman would have been sorting through the data , finding out who owed how much money , writing them polite letters , and this is the sort of thing you can do very quickly with a computer . |
| 17 | It allowed workers the opportunity to buy as much as 20 per cent of their company 's shares at half price as well as offering them low-interest loans for buying future shares once a stock market was established . |
| 18 | You may pay all them flaming taxes and you get stuff all out of it . |
| 19 | Her hyperactivity and restlessness were taken up in the constant roaming , first about the churches in her own neighbourhood , then to religious sites in England , then on pilgrimage in Europe , all of them respectable things to do . |
| 20 | Same as them posh blokes what come here — they all want to be caned . |
| 21 | I can see them bloody lines on her stocking |
| 22 | it was fine , I thought right get up and get them bloody curtains washed , I had 'em on the line , but do you think our Mike noticed them , well when he came home from work , because I thought of having to put 'em back up again , I just |
| 23 | Can you move them bloody knickers ! |
| 24 | cost them bloody loads and then they 'll turn it into an absolute cack heap like it was before . |
| 25 | Huh , I think I had such a good night , you know what you 've bloody well done he said you 've got up he said before you was ready he said , you knew you wanted to get on he said , and you 've got up he said with the intentions he said , you had them bloody cakes he said before you had breakfast , well I had to with her coming |
| 26 | Oh I , I , I just , I do n't , not to get rid of them bloody horses , alright I know what horses cost . |
| 27 | ‘ I hate them bloody things . ’ |
| 28 | Cos it 's them bloody things we 've got ! |
| 29 | They never ever mention them bloody things , they were them windscreen wipers which I ordered before Christmas and it 's , it 's ridiculous , cos that 's , I know I can eh , I know by the er , by the er , that 's where I sent them back to that Brian Mill whatever I call it , well |
| 30 | In the chip shop we bought some fish out the fryer and put in the top and straight away got them bloody tongs picked it up and poured the bloody grease off it and put it in the bloody bag thought it was terrible . |