Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] them in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I asked them in the lodge like do n't do any damage and Tom was in e he gave them a good lecture so and the lads in the lodge said , Well look you tell them as well not to do this attitude and perhaps you 've seen it on these flumes when they saw a crowd that was there they were changing gear with the Land Rover and through you know like anybody in the way you 'd be underneath . |
| 2 | Th I got them in the electricity board , there three for sixty pence . |
| 3 | I do n't know but then frankly thinking but then I got them in the end you know I just did n't sell them because nobody paid that much and then ah in the outset and I paid quite a big price for for two for Patrick and me and then when they were they they dropped the price and then I got some more . |
| 4 | The dogs were surprised when I disturbed them in the middle of the night and they chased in their runs when I left again , strained to see me departing through the rain , and hear the car door opening , their bowls clanking as I threw them inside . |
| 5 | I told them in the club bar that it was all down to my carefully structured pre-season training programme , but after last season 's relegation I have n't been near the ground since April ! |
| 6 | ‘ I was n't going to unroll the damn things , ’ continued Lydia , ‘ so I banged them in the oven , humming insouciantly the while and served them up all bubbling hot . |
| 7 | I threw them in the river ! |
| 8 | I heard them in the kitchen once , Mrs Donaldson and old Todd , going on about the sort of kid I was . |
| 9 | ‘ I heard them in the shop talking and they said you had taken her out . ’ |
| 10 | As I placed them in the water , the bone-china cups and saucers became first glass then nothing ; the water was cold as a glacier . |
| 11 | Yesterday they called , I called them in the morning and they said is your er , you know at one at something , I said no , I do n't , I do n't really know , I did n't know there was one at one . |
| 12 | I saw them in the field with the fallen stones . |
| 13 | I 've been talking to some of them about it , it 's meant to be , cos I did n't know it was going on , and I saw them in the paper , says oh ! |
| 14 | I kept them in the shed and eventually had to put the bikes outside under a tarpaulin when the collection got too large . |
| 15 | Anyway , I kept them in the aviary for about four weeks just to make sure they would adapt to one another . |
| 16 | So I took them in the lorry . |
| 17 | They did n't want him , but I persuaded them in the end . |
| 18 | Yes it 's great , I mean in the first year lecture on Tuesday erm in the break I gave them in the middle of it the the corridor was like thick with tobacco smoke y'know you could hardly |
| 19 | " I left them in the stable . " |
| 20 | I left them in the parlour . |
| 21 | Having trouble with both these pens today , I left them in the car last night , I think they must have got a bit cold . |
| 22 | This repeated general principles well known to a ( l good teachers , but I wanted them in the Report so there could be no doubt about the kind of teaching we admired . |
| 23 | The Commonwealth became to politicians and men of affairs what Indirect Rule was to the DO — a chance to display those qualities which justified them in the possession of an empire , and thereby ensure its perpetuation . |
| 24 | You failed them in the election , will you help to keep them afloat now ? |
| 25 | She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay . |
| 26 | Had the two friends discussed her in the way men probably did when they looked at a young woman who passed them in the street ? |
| 27 | Hodai told Rostov that the major-domo who met them in the antechamber of the palace was a N'pani , the only foreigner with any authority at the court . |
| 28 | The two men have different versions of the meeting which followed , and there were no witnesses except for a waiter who interrupted them in the middle of the shouting match and asked if they wanted any sandwiches . |
| 29 | She stood five feet six tall in her high-heeled shoes , her long hair was dark , and she was the kind of thirty-five-year-old woman men turned to look at when she passed them in the street . |
| 30 | These pairs are alphabetically listed and linked to the name of any author who used them in the title of the article that he wrote . |