Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Charles , her husband , jokes all the time about what I 'm wearing , insists that I join them for formal dinners late at night , and then teases me throughout them because I 've never eaten squid before , and I do n't know what haggis is made of .
2 Be pleased to tell them that I remember them with great kindness and great respect .
3 For that matter , now that I see them for this moment so clearly , what has Hugh to do with the king , either ?
4 ‘ We are putting a lot of money into these core plants to improve their efficiency and reduce variable costs , ’ Ewart emphasizes , ‘ It is vital that we keep them in good shape . ’
5 ‘ The Arsenal way of doing things , though , is that we do them in private — not in public .
6 One cultural tendency feminists must be critical of , and ultimately indeed try to eliminate , is the tendency to impose the categories ‘ masculine ’ and ‘ feminine ’ on every aspect of life , so we see them as natural categories instead of what they are , restrictive and unequal constructs .
7 they always seemed backward , they found that they took them to different specialist and the truth is , they 've both left school now and got jobs , but they were er , dyslexia
8 It did not , however , initiate the longer-term processes discussed above , although it affected them in different ways — contributing to the globalization of liberal political ideas and economic policies , posing new challenges to the European integration process as the East European states seek to participate therein , and stimulating the process of fragmentation .
9 They then have to try and unravel it and , in so doing , will find that it takes them in all sorts of different places until at the end they find a small present .
10 So Rob 's instruction was that he put them in those files and I did n't think it was a particularly good idea because everything 's easier to find if it 's in the envelopes that we 've put them in .
11 So they tied him with chains but the demonic powers were so great in his life that he snapped them like new cords .
12 It it 's a part of the county council I 've always taken a considerable interest in , and I support them in all their efforts .
13 Anyway , the people at SIS are big enough to take it and I respect them for that . ’
14 Let's try and get it on the board , which somebody has written on and I told them about that and asked them to clean it , but , bring a spray can of white paint next time .
15 And I told them about this job I 'd done here .
16 And I 'll say this now , they was in business there , nextdoor , and I knew them like that , they says any machinery come here and use it , and they 'd got shears and all that sort of thing , and with their help , you know , I had these four locks and did them and took them down in no time to m to er , to and they was flabbergasted because of the quickness of them , you know , and they says er we can always find you sommat to work if er this is the case .
17 I had a clear view of them from a branch of a tree that overhung the water , and I watched them on several occasions .
18 I do not want to add to the controversy that we had earlier by saying that , yet again — and I congratulate them on this — our colleagues have obtained more in the English legislation than we have — The Minister indicates dissent , but I won the last argument and I am not sure whether he wants another one at this late hour .
19 Councillor is on record , in fact not long after taking his job , that he does n't care much for state education , he prefers , grant maintained schools , the assisted places scheme , which I 'm pleased to say , Lord Mayor , we do n't operate in this district and neither did the Tories when they were in power and I applaud them for that
20 Also , Lord God , we ask that you remember the dark deeds of any communistic so-called-interrogators , in this time of great upheaval in eastern Europe ; we know that you will not forget their crimes when their day of reckoning comes , and their guttural , Slavic voices cry out to ye for mercy , and ye reward them with all the compassion they ever showed to those unfortunate souls delivered unto them .
21 Oh I used to love sally loaves and you cut them off that way
22 She says you get new ten pound notes , they stick together and you count them as one .
23 Cos they go out to work at half past eight and you hear them between half past seven and half past eight
24 You got the band and you put them like that , and you twisted it round , did that and then it was a long band you see .
25 So — you listen in silence ; and you casework them ; and you set up case-conferences about them ; and you refer them to other agencies ; and you work up your notes on case-handling for the journals . ’
26 Now she gets them and she sells them for ten quid .
27 She was familiar enough with the garden by this time to return in only a few minutes with sheafs of colourful tropical blooms , and she arranged them in two big vases to make riotously informal bunches of colour that lacked classical form but would , she hoped , be pleasing to Faye 's artistic eye .
28 And she matches them with cheerful clothes .
29 Somehow , and from somewhere , a beautiful young woman appeared — this was no imagined vision — and she took them to some hot springs where they all ended up naked .
30 The bright April sun was full in her eyes and she shaded them with one hand .
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