Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] them [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect them to finish in the top two . |
| 2 | More rarely , I watched them diving in the sea for sea urchins or other easy prey . |
| 3 | They would never stay in my bedroom very long , but you can imagine my excitement each lunchtime as I watched them arrive in the garden , enter the house and quack their way up to me , as regular as clockwork . |
| 4 | The wind had blown some dead leaves through the door into the church , and I watched them dancing in the sunlight near the grave . |
| 5 | I , i it used to be something I put up with when I was younger , now , if my parents come to visit I ask them to smoke in the corridor , go out of the door , open a window , something , because I found it affects me so badly ! |
| 6 | I saw them gleam in the lamp-light . |
| 7 | ‘ Because I 've already told Mr Priest we just do n't have room for any more , unless you want them to sleep in the cellar . |
| 8 | When Maggie returned she found them locked in the strained silence . |
| 9 | She remained in the room for a long while but although Carrie went there twice with tea for them , she found them talking in the Romany language and did not understand anything they said . |
| 10 | No , you put them hidden in the |
| 11 | She meant Hepzibah and Mister Johnny and how she owed it to them to let them stay in the house because there was nowhere else they could go , not with Mister Johnny 's shy ways . |
| 12 | In our mind we watch them happen in the future . |
| 13 | He is at pains to assure us that he will do so We are privileged to share in these Machiavellian plans ( the word ‘ reach ’ has such connotations : ‘ overreach ’ is when the Machiavel attempts too much ) , and we see them fulfilled in the brilliant wooing scene that follows . |
| 14 | They allow them to live in the communikty and report to police daily or weekly |
| 15 | And he let them help in the shop ( Carrie loved that : measuring out things on the scales and giving the change ) until Nick stole some biscuits one day and he came in and caught him . |
| 16 | I wanted to try them on right there but for months he let them dangle in the closet upstairs , growing the wrinkles and airpockets that would finally fit his shape , the peculiar wishbone of his shanks . |
| 17 | He wants them to share in the excitement of an excellent revenue week . |
| 18 | He had them erected in the grounds of his house — now council offices . |