Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] them [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got them in some shop in Covent Garden . |
| 2 | I found them in those dawn hours . |
| 3 | And I told them about this job I 'd done here . |
| 4 | Mm , mm and no , I dropped them off this morning , that 's it , he 's picking them up |
| 5 | Although the ministers were too polite to commit themselves , even when I pressed them on this point , it was clear to me that they felt they , and their church , had been used . |
| 6 | I had a clear view of them from a branch of a tree that overhung the water , and I watched them on several occasions . |
| 7 | I could n't get to sleep , and I noticed in the air there was a red light flashing , and several other green lights flashing , and they were coming , helicopter noises , and er I watched them for several minutes and they seemed to be landing and one was stationary in the air , without moving , and rest were going up and down . |
| 8 | I watched them for some time , thinking smugly ‘ Ha ! |
| 9 | I called them into this room and spoke to them . |
| 10 | I discussed them in some detail in the chapter on event planning . |
| 11 | it 's like party balloons , she 's got like water balloons I mean , with water and , they was , I had them in this box mucking about , I was trying take something out , and then like we dropped a water balloon in their bathroom and erm , we started having water fight , and that they filled them up and go into the balloons and then you go and tie it up |
| 12 | She got in the bed to watch Neighbours and we came back about five o'clock and I went up the stairs , the T V was and he was erm out for count , so I left them for another hour and I said to mum |
| 13 | TWICE IN MY LIFE I have consciously avoided meeting someone , because I held them in such awe . |
| 14 | She walked them towards each other , their clawed feet bent stiffly inwards , on the cold slate shelf : " How did you get shot , little brother ? " each asked the other in a high child 's squeak of imitation . |
| 15 | She took them with such sweetness , and grace , with such a look of affectionate gratitude and pleasure , that Gabriel felt like the Wise Man who presented frankincense to the Virgin Mary . |
| 16 | I do n't think , I do n't think you had them with those tiles |
| 17 | Heavily built with a full round face that was always smiling , she greeted them with such warmth that even timid newcomers relaxed . |
| 18 | All stories were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time . |
| 19 | Cos they had the , the expensive yarns and they produced them on these machines with very little waste . |
| 20 | George MacKerracher was a character in himself , and although I always suspected that he made up most of his stories , he told them with such sincerity and verve that they were quite believable . |
| 21 | He called them by this name because , he said , they went ‘ floppy ’ when you shot them . |
| 22 | He robbed them of all dignity . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It lead them to this house on Magdalen Road in Oxford … where law graduate Georgia Griffiths was living with her sister and two other girls . |
| 25 | He greeted them with some impatience . |
| 26 | When God in his wisdom chose not to bless women with the same convenient appendage through which men pass water , he left them with little choice but to strip off and squat . |
| 27 | But as Chomsky himself remarked when he abandoned them with some reluctance as theoretical constructs , these kernel sentences actually have considerable intuitive appeal . |