Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] them [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but I made them non-copper so they would n't . |
| 2 | I got them rust ones . |
| 3 | And he said , I told them point blank the oth last week , he said er to go to hell ! |
| 4 | ‘ I called them uncle . |
| 5 | And er she says Jean I swear to God she says if she comes over near my door , I 've told Jim she says , I , I 'm ready for her I 'll beat her round that square and she said I 'm not like that but she says that 's just the way she says , and she hurt my kids when I sent them Easter eggs over , doing that she says , that really galled me , she says cos they were hurting my kids rather than me . |
| 6 | it opens the door , it opens the door , that 's why both my younger girls , I mean Diane 's a different policy any way cos she wants to be a , but with the other two , who worked interest in computers and when they left college I gave them crash course in , in typing not in shorthand because they do n't they do n't need shorthand nowadays , |
| 7 | I gave them money , full of pride that I was richer than at least one English person , even if he was a beggar . |
| 8 | They flutter round and eh , oh it 's lovely , , because I have , yes they 've eaten all the rice , I gave them rice , and eh , they 're very sweet , then they come and eat , then they have a bath and then |
| 9 | Right up until the coup in nineteen twenty seven they had been following a policy dictated by Moscow , dictated by Stalin which told them form alliances with the Kuomintang , work with the Kuomintang , first of all trust Chiang Kai-shek , then when Chiang Kai-shek turned on them they were told to trust the left Kuomintang leaders who were based in Wo Han in the middle Yangtze valleys , and then they turned on them a policy , in other words , that had proved absolutely disastrous . |
| 10 | In spate it was a terrifying torrent which uprooted whole trees and smashed them to driftwood ; in drought it was an evil-tempered stream which grudged them water and tugged the pots from her hands if she did not hold them with all her strength . |
| 11 | Yes , yes , I know even , even Ratner himself called them tat or |
| 12 | The English kings , however , were unlikely to be willing to relinquish a part of their inheritance which brought them revenue in the early fourteenth century of about £13,000 a year , and whose subjects accepted English rule . |
| 13 | Allister Hutton , Mike Gratton and Veronique Marot are returning to the course which brought them victory in the eighties and they 'll be joined by Berlin Marathon winner Steve Brace , who is using the London as part of his preparation for Barcelona . |
| 14 | The teaching of deaf children by oral methods alone was not new ; the earliest teachers of the deaf such as Dr. William Holder and Dr. John Wallis tried it in the 1660s with ( as evidence shows ) far less success than they wrote about in the publications which earned them fame . |
| 15 | In many cases they are now wider in scope than the function which gave them birth ; in others they are at least on a par with the sales function . |
| 16 | Their legitimate trade may have exceeded their opium trade , but it was their hard-currency resources from opium sales which gave them primacy among the foreign merchants in Canton . |
| 17 | With an effort , she made them part , and then her vocal cords let her down by refusing to work . |
| 18 | She loaned them money , saved it for them or doled it out when necessary , all the transactions being written on the souvenir programme of whatever show she was appearing in . |
| 19 | And when the person who owed them money was the heir to the throne they still deserved to be treated justly , perhaps even more so . |
| 20 | The only teacher Endill liked was Mr Litmus , who taught them Science . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh it 'll be such fun , ’ their mother had said when she kissed them good-bye at the station . |
| 22 | Below him , the altar-boys settled on their bench , hands in their sleeves , as scornful as he who drilled them week after week . |
| 23 | She was so happy with them , she called them Dad and Mum and living only a few streets away from her real mother , would visit her daily , calling her ‘ My mother 's sister ’ . |
| 24 | TWO youngsters cuddled up yesterday for a special ‘ thank you ’ to the man who gave them life . |
| 25 | The crew hailed a fishing-skiff who gave them information that a French ship had been seen making its way up the Firth the previous day . |
| 26 | Perhaps it would have been too easy : they 'd made love the first night they met , both involved with women who gave them pain . |
| 27 | You gave them rule over the works of your hand and put all things under their dominion . |
| 28 | She gave them brandy . |
| 29 | I thought that she gave them education to add to er , to the poor . |
| 30 | Yes , it is true , but I must add the following : even her hand-outs to beggars were based on negation : she gave them money not because beggars , too , belonged to mankind , but because they did not belong to it , because they were excluded from it , and probably like her , felt no solidarity with mankind . |