Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] them [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Whatever these changes were , many who witnessed them found them worrying and unsettling . |
2 | I chucked them all off last week . |
3 | According to one obscure belief in ancient Rome , smearing mouse excrement over someone made them impotent . |
4 | I read them both again erm last year for the first time for many years , and I found Herodotus much the better of the two , because Herodotus was prepared to be curious about everything . |
5 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
6 | Jill : Well , I made them all with four things on one of those round things . |
7 | bought the wagon round , yeah I made them clear the site cos well actually it 's twelve being as , they are a bit stained |
8 | I met them both at that Paris conference on sexuality and textuality I went to . |
9 | ‘ If I sold them one or two at a time I 'd be here for twenty years . ’ |
10 | Well I 've tol I , I sold them that |
11 | I 've got a few shares in British Aerospace , but nobody would notice if I sold them all . |
12 | ‘ After The White Lion won they gave me £6,000 and told me to get them another , so I sold them three shares in Rambo 's Hall — who I 'd bought cheaply in a job lot as a yearling — for £1,500 each . |
13 | ‘ Every time I got them involved with the story , ’ Hopper explained , ‘ I 'd come back at them and say , ‘ Ha , ha , it 's only a movie … ’ ’ |
14 | I got your first letter to Nanking on Saturday , and had plenty of letters at Sian — I 'm not sure that I got them all , in particular I got a letter from Tom sent on March 23 , but I 'm not sure whether that 's the one you referred to , anyway I 'm grateful to you all for keeping me in touch . |
15 | I 've hardly got any in cos when I left my nursery I got them all to do me one and when I left my school I got a load of them to do me one I did n't get many at the day nursery , but I got a handful . |
16 | I got them all wrong on purpose . |
17 | These ones here though , I was surprised I I got them right . |
18 | and I got them both out whole an all |
19 | I got them last night , you know . |
20 | And I got them some of that , urgh urgh ! |
21 | They put things right with a smile when I got them wrong , and I fell into their ways and rhythm of working as well as I could . |
22 | I usually keep him in when I wash his clothes and I got them special for the cold weather so he should be all right . |
23 | I treasured them all . ’ |
24 | But Kathleen Mary Butterfield lured him away with a bounce of her fat orange curls , and I found them roly-polying down the hill together behind the shrubbery . |
25 | My mother was a woman of great piety and orthodoxy ; and when she allowed me to look into her forest depths I found them good . |
26 | In a word I found them inadequate , not to say hopeless . |
27 | Wherever I went , I found them gentle , quietly spoken , very kind and anxious to be helpful . |
28 | I found them perfect for mixing up warmer greens . |
29 | It was precisely because the measures in the social chapter would have damaged first employment prospects and secondly our competitiveness against Japan and the United States that I found them unacceptable . |
30 | As for my eidetic happenings , I found them suspect as well ; they were so clearly a product of my own fervid visual imagination . |