Example sentences of "you [vb past] them [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You failed them in the election , will you help to keep them afloat now ?
2 They told you when you asked them at the club .
3 If you mentioned them to a colleague or — ’
4 That 's an interesting point that , any square root , any square root you always get two answers for square roots yeah , it 's always plus thing and minus thing , in complex numbers , when you get complex numbers there are always what we call complex conjugators , if you drew them on them , on them diagram , right , if you drew them on the diagram , what 'll you get , plus five minus three I , plus five , minus three I , and then and then we get minus five , plus three I , You get plus and minus there .
5 You told them about the tubes in my daughter 's bag …
6 Every other week after that you paid them at the end every week ,
7 To make things vanish you threw them in the air then cooked and ate them .
8 Again , like Microsoft , WordPerfect UK would rather that you contacted them for an upgrade .
9 Er and when it progressed to automatic tools , all these tools were kept in a store at night , and you collected them in the morning when you went back onto the job .
10 They used to These they used to be a round used to be round you know and not very used to hit them as you hit them with a stick you see , they used to wheel wheel round and round .
11 You tied them with a line and taped Mrs Bayles mouth so she could not speak , threatened them with weapons and left them tied while you ransacked their home a truly terrifying experience for them . ’
12 Oh and you kept them off the road did you ?
13 Well , the you 've heard , I 've heard some people being nasty and , and they did n't say no , but it was always , not always it was occasionally done grudgingly , and , and erm in many cases of course it was done willingly , you know come in yes please do , and , and they did n't even want the penny that , that you offered them for the telephone call .
14 You saw them on the television — they never gave up hope , campaigning and running lonely vigils in the long nights .
15 You would recognise them if you saw them in the street , there 's no doubt about that , but they 're not academic studies , they 're caricatured to a point .
16 You would recognise them if you saw them in the street , there 's no doubt about that , but they 're not academic studies , they 're caricatured to a point .
17 You took them to the river at Beni Suef ? ’
18 If you took them in the daytime , they 'd come back , but taking them in the dark , when they were asleep into the woodlands , they 'd settle much better do you see .
19 Why you whacked them in the garden already ?
20 Positive , negative , and the thing at the end is a Z , of sorts All scores above the mean , if you converted them to a Z score you would expect them to be positive .
21 All scores below the mean , if you converted them to a Z score you would expect to be negative .
22 What you gave them to the barmaid ?
23 Judging from your usual acerbic frame of mind , I imagine you flushed them down the sink long ago . ’
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