Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] them [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used them on many rainy days , and never once suffered from wet feet . |
| 2 | The Muslim Palestinian defenders of Beaufort were ignorant of all this , sitting around the walls in silence when I told them of this historical the old tale of fear , treachery and pain . |
| 3 | ‘ I had to coax two into it because they are not very experienced cook , but I chose them for that very reason , ’ he says . |
| 4 | He is the kind of person you want to beat because you hold them in such high regard . ’ |
| 5 | D' you want to look at whether you put them in any particular order ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As Philippa disentangled herself she heard them on some well-worn tale . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Why did n't you tell them about that ghastly couple — Grimwood and Steve ? |
| 10 | Many of our people sickened and died , and we buried them in this strange land . |
| 11 | Most horses can be highly motivated to do what we want if we reward them with some favourite food . |
| 12 | We divide them into two main kinds , exploratory and expressive . |
| 13 | Not er like they bring them in these cardboard boxes you know , wooden boxes . |
| 14 | and the Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny and the popcorn , you go and get your popcorn dish out of thing , show Alex how much popcorn we bought , I mean you go up there and it 's not like it used to be years ago a little bale of popcorn they sell them in huge great big cartons up there |
| 15 | They make them in bloody big batches now |
| 16 | In this way she can judge when some children are ready to join a group game , enabling her to present them with some small problem that will help to lead them one step further in their mathematical thinking . |
| 17 | Since its 720- hour engines were time-expired , they replaced them with two low-time 200-hour ex-Belgian powerplants found in the USA . |
| 18 | No confusion was found when they tested them against 200 different isolates of the same , but genetically unmodified , bacterium taken from lake water . |
| 19 | ‘ What are they looking for ? ’ he asked them without any preliminary greeting . |
| 20 | Even when he scolded them for some minor wrongdoing , he would cite the great orators like Cicero or Burke , as if he was taking part in a parliamentary debate , instead of addressing two small boys . |
| 21 | When he divorced a wife he would set her up in a house of her own with her children ; and as his twenty-seven sons came to maturity he directed them into various different occupations , to ensure a spread of enterprise which would be useful to all of them . |
| 22 | He advises them on obscure medieval manuscripts , on 19th-century poetesses of Accrington , on King Arthur , on archaeology , on the cult of the saints , all with equal facility and depth of knowledge . |
| 23 | There is a suggestion too that poor readers are deficient in an internal articulatory code ( Briggs and Underwood , 1987 ) , and that this is in itself a source of difficulty insofar as it deprives them of one lexical route — that is , one way of identifying what words mean . |
| 24 | Edward looked delighted to see them and , after supplying them with drinks , he introduced them to several other guests . |
| 25 | It pull them in dire financial straits . |