Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder if the , the director plans to talk about the cri criteria we will work towards with the independent erm living fund and I wonder if we could possibly accommodate something within the criteria because I think the number of people involved needing adaptation to their home over about five thousand is fairly small but for those people it will make the difference between them being able to remain in their own home or within the community care package , a vast sum of money being needed to be spent on them to accommodate them within residential accommodation . |
| 2 | Poor people do n't want a millionaire among them reminding them of some way in which they failed to make it . |
| 3 | they 've made it so as it , it do , you see I , I , I reckon you ought to open my let me make them in te in steel because er they made them like that so that when you pull them off or adjust them |
| 4 | Boys pouring into the room below , laughing , chattering , me seeing them through the crack . |
| 5 | In December 1757 he tried to excuse himself ‘ as my abode is at such distance from the place where the Royal Society hold their weekly meetings as to render it not only inconvenient , but unsafe for me to attend them in the winter season. , A month later Ellis countered with , ‘ I scarce think it possible that Mr. Miller should have no one friend in the Society to send him word and , indeed , I had told Rivington to tell Miller I would be glad to discuss the matter at Fulham , and Miller ignored it . ’ |
| 6 | I think you 'll look terrific in those hotpants , so let me buy them for you ? ’ |
| 7 | Moreover , although their new jobs were temporary , not all of them regarded them as a " stop-gap " . |
| 8 | They were sighted in China , where those who attempted to eat them reported them to be tasteless or unpleasant . |
| 9 | er and therefore for that very reason do not like to see the Government going in for a whole series of embarrassing defeats er and erm getting into very grave difficulties with an important Bill and I therefore arise only to ask my Noble Friend er at the last minute would like to consider very seriously erm a conciliatory reply of whether accepting er the amendments with er or er or some of them er with er er er view to their reconsideration or asking those who propose them to defer them from to from today 's sitting , there 's still further sittings ahead , but whether he was prepared to ask them to give him a chance to reflect without incurring serious Government defeats to reflect further on whether further amendments can not and should not be made . |
| 10 | Darlington argues persuasively that Marx believed the process of evolution to be by direct Lamarkian and not by indirect Darwinian , or selective means : that is to say , that the environment in which individuals found themselves operated directly upon them to adjust them to it and that the adjustments were transmitted by them to the next generation ; and not that , fortuitous mutations having occurred in the genetic package , they would when favourable equip the mutant for greater success in the given environment than the unmutated form could achieve . |
| 11 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 12 | Theyspoketo them nicely but if I asked them for anything it was as though they could n't be bothered . |
| 13 | Old hands from the music business — usually loquacious if invited to reminisce — were struck by collective amnesia when I asked them about Dury . |
| 14 | Addressing questions to a class of primary school children in a rural school at the time of the Passover , I asked them about places in the Bible where there were sheep . |
| 15 | When I asked them about it they all said : ‘ Oh , you 've had cats all your life , you wo n't get it ’ ’ . |
| 16 | I asked them about the war , and they said it was okay , but you could see in their eyes they did n't mean it . |
| 17 | When I asked them about it later , they said , oh no , we have no intention of doing Anthems of the Nations , perhaps you would like to do it for us . |
| 18 | Cos I asked them about it , and they said I 'd much rather be doing that . |
| 19 | So I asked them in the lodge like do n't do any damage and Tom was in e he gave them a good lecture so and the lads in the lodge said , Well look you tell them as well not to do this attitude and perhaps you 've seen it on these flumes when they saw a crowd that was there they were changing gear with the Land Rover and through you know like anybody in the way you 'd be underneath . |
| 20 | I commend them to your care . |
| 21 | I commend them to the house . |
| 22 | Our amendments would er restore democratic accountability for police authorities , they would remove the proposed concentration of power in the hands of the Home Secretary and I commend them to the Committee . |
| 23 | As I wiped them on my pinafore Mr Vulcan asked what was wrong with me . |
| 24 | Mind , when I read their story on erm I read them on Thursday afternoon and I said , right we better practise for nursery |
| 25 | I made them for a friend a couple of years ago and she 's still talking about them ! |
| 26 | ‘ I made them with a ruler , ’ he says . |
| 27 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 28 | So be it but , remaining as I am of the view that they were a correct expression of the law , I repeat them as part of the ratio of my decision in this case . |
| 29 | Dinner I boil myself just a few potatoes , and I eat them with a piece of bread … |
| 30 | ‘ I led them to you . ’ |