Example sentences of "they [vb past] them [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | And he cried do you think she would need a worm and he held up a worm , but he came and put this poisoned worm in the mole , you know that 's what they did , they had er mole er worms that had doped with poison , you see and then they dropped them in the hole and that was the end of the mole . |
2 | Er , yeah , they had a big electrical drill and they screwed them to the roof with those . |
3 | They arranged them on the sand lemons or onions or oranges — in careful little piles and sold them for so much a pile . |
4 | They leased them to the spa innkeepers , who eventually became rich enough to purchase them . |
5 | In a pilot experiment subjects attempted to describe films as they watched them in the way described by Hughes and Cole . |
6 | And then er that 's one of t the the boss made that cabinet there er it 's got the feet er but and these are what they call astricles These panes of glass are all in er individually you know , they 're all put in and to polish these wee astricles oh you you had to be very deli cos they 're very thin you know , and you had to flay them and polish and they lay them in the thing and then they they were fitted in and then the glass was The doors were sent to the glaziers Certain amount of polish on them and then the doors were sent to the glazers and then they were finished after that you know . |
7 | But they took them into the castle at Montgomery , prisoners . ’ |
8 | You know they , they ran , they took the nurses , because the nurses home was a mile or , was it a mile or a mile and a half or something from the hospital , they had this , they took them in the morning and then they took them at lunchtime and then all the different shifts coming on and off they took them , and they had the schools run as well . |
9 | ‘ If you 've got a pen I 'll read the directions as they gave them to the family . ’ |
10 | Well , they marched them to the top of the hill and they marched them down again . |
11 | Aye and erm they had them in the window there twelve ninety nine . |
12 | He could n't even run down to the village to get a new set — they had them in the marina shop at the auto-marine-because his van was temporarily off the road . |
13 | Then they dragged them to the edge of the platform and threw them on the track . |