Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] them [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I tried to fix them on the door and they would n't stay |
| 2 | I was clumsy and had to pick up a couple of notes from the floor and wipe the bags where I 'd touched them with a handkerchief . |
| 3 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
| 4 | I 'd spotted them in a second-hand shop and immediately began saving feverishly to make them mine before anyone else got their hands on them . |
| 5 | I decided to keep them in the count because they gave an interesting sidelight on the history of lending libraries in England with some specific examples , and there were not too many of them . |
| 6 | Eventually , frantic with frustration , I managed to force them over the raw meat of my knuckles with my teeth , my sore and bleeding lips spreading red stains through the grating wool . |
| 7 | The stresses and tensions in those early days got to me , even though I managed to obscure them from the viewers . |
| 8 | So I put it up and I gave to like that , I went put them in the water ! |
| 9 | So the second time I went clasping them round the waist , two , you see . |
| 10 | and then I had to work with these people and I knew that that was the kind of way that they were operating and I had to teach them by the way I worked but in fact it was okay to admit that we do make mistakes . |
| 11 | I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man . |
| 12 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 13 | I was afraid to speak to these important people but I had to tell them about the danger . |
| 14 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 15 | I had taken them to the meeting . |
| 16 | The time I went before that , I got erm , like a frostbitten thumb , because I was going up on the chair lift , and er , I dropped one of my gloves , and it was quite a cold day , so by the time I 'd got to the top , and skied all the way back down , and then down the road going back to try and find me gloves , because I had borrowed them from a friend , |
| 17 | She expected to take them through the process several times , demonstrating the skills and strategies involved , and gradually increasing the amount which they were able to tackle independently , before they could manage by themselves . |
| 18 | ‘ It looked as though if you 'd left them in a ring on their own , one of them would have had to drop down dead to end the fight . |
| 19 | She 'd given them as a wedding present , she said , and never seen them used . |
| 20 | She 'd left them in the caravan , and he just see the keys |
| 21 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 22 | You began to see them in the expensive cars . |
| 23 | She began to mince them into a fragrant green hill on the board in front of her . |
| 24 | Even if resources had been plentiful , Russia lacked the roads and railways she needed to get them to the front . |
| 25 | She seemed pulled out , elongated by it , so that her shoes , her new bronze slippers with rosettes on the toes that Aunt Emily had said she must keep hidden at all times if possible since legs and feet were highly indecent , seemed far further away than the five and a half feet she knew separated them from the crown of her head . |
| 26 | If schemas are widely held , it should usually be obvious to the manager what they are — especially , of course , if he or she aimed to establish them in the first place . |
| 27 | Her duties as parents had been completed , she had prepared them for the future , they could now stand on their own feet , so she let them go . |
| 28 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 29 | But she had seen them on the newsreel before the big film , creaking and groaning across the land , their great limbless , legless form crushing and grinding all that was in their way . |
| 30 | She had seen them through a strange fuzzy blankness , as if they were constructs of her subconscious which were being projected against her closed eyelids . |