Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It it 's a part of the county council I 've always taken a considerable interest in , and I support them in all their efforts . |
2 | Anyway , the people at SIS are big enough to take it and I respect them for that . ’ |
3 | Let's try and get it on the board , which somebody has written on and I told them about that and asked them to clean it , but , bring a spray can of white paint next time . |
4 | And I told them about this job I 'd done here . |
5 | And I 'll say this now , they was in business there , nextdoor , and I knew them like that , they says any machinery come here and use it , and they 'd got shears and all that sort of thing , and with their help , you know , I had these four locks and did them and took them down in no time to m to er , to and they was flabbergasted because of the quickness of them , you know , and they says er we can always find you sommat to work if er this is the case . |
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 do not want to add to the controversy that we had earlier by saying that , yet again — and I congratulate them on this — our colleagues have obtained more in the English legislation than we have — The Minister indicates dissent , but I won the last argument and I am not sure whether he wants another one at this late hour . |
8 | Councillor is on record , in fact not long after taking his job , that he does n't care much for state education , he prefers , grant maintained schools , the assisted places scheme , which I 'm pleased to say , Lord Mayor , we do n't operate in this district and neither did the Tories when they were in power and I applaud them for that |
9 | Also , Lord God , we ask that you remember the dark deeds of any communistic so-called-interrogators , in this time of great upheaval in eastern Europe ; we know that you will not forget their crimes when their day of reckoning comes , and their guttural , Slavic voices cry out to ye for mercy , and ye reward them with all the compassion they ever showed to those unfortunate souls delivered unto them . |
10 | Oh I used to love sally loaves and you cut them off that way |
11 | She says you get new ten pound notes , they stick together and you count them as one . |
12 | Cos they go out to work at half past eight and you hear them between half past seven and half past eight |
13 | You got the band and you put them like that , and you twisted it round , did that and then it was a long band you see . |
14 | So — you listen in silence ; and you casework them ; and you set up case-conferences about them ; and you refer them to other agencies ; and you work up your notes on case-handling for the journals . ’ |
15 | Now she gets them and she sells them for ten quid . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | And she matches them with cheerful clothes . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | The bright April sun was full in her eyes and she shaded them with one hand . |
20 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
21 | and we put them onto that area |
22 | They wear muzzles at all times when they are together at home , and we put them in separate rooms whenever they are left on their own . |
23 | Many of our people sickened and died , and we buried them in this strange land . |
24 | And they were tiny and we tied them in wee bunches and it was Miss who was the teacher then and she made a cross and put |
25 | Such stopping places are cheap and good , and we need them in this country . |
26 | starting with the right material , the A&R staff try to encourage artists to write commercially and they introduce them to good studios , engineers , producers and other musicians . ’ |
27 | Cos they had the , the expensive yarns and they produced them on these machines with very little waste . |
28 | And they get them on one machine ? |
29 | But the speakers that you are observing ‘ know ’ how to use the resources of variation available to them , and they use them for many purposes , including the marking of varying social roles and functions . |
30 | They bought the potatoes and they put them into this machine to mix them up with a couple of pails of water and then they drained all the taters off and left the milk that was left and used that for the baking . |