Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] them [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone in the audience has asked me to greet them the way the chimpanzees greet each other in the wild at Gombe , ’ Jane Goodall began . |
| 2 | While farmers themselves recognise that no-one owes them a living , there 's still an inherent desire to be on the receiving end of some support . |
| 3 | While farmers themselves recognise that no-one owes them a living , there 's still an inherent desire to be on the receiving end of some support . |
| 4 | Hell , I had a bumper sticker saying ‘ Have You Hugged Your Kids Today ? ’ and , sure , I hugged them every day I could , but nowadays I sometimes wonder just what in hell is going on inside their heads . |
| 5 | And I make sure that I 'm here and I open up for them , and I make them a cup of tea . |
| 6 | They said they would not let my back into the village until I got them a ration card and some wheat . |
| 7 | Actually I found them a lot more convenient than |
| 8 | That 's why I sa that 's why I told them the weekend I thought at least I 'll have something sha n't I ? |
| 9 | They were very pleased when I told them the outcome of my night on the tiles and Otley sat next to me on the sofa with his arm round my shoulders . |
| 10 | I told them the truth — he visits me , but he does n't live here . |
| 11 | ‘ When my friends asked me why I left the ministry , I told them the focus was too narrow . |
| 12 | Could I give them a ring ? |
| 13 | For many of those people it is probably a godsend when someone hands them a piece of paper that might unlock the door to access to a benefit that they would otherwise not receive . |
| 14 | On the first foundation course that people do in this company , the one thing that I do , is I give them a map of the United Kingdom , and it 's got thirty dots on it . |
| 15 | My legs are warm and I give them a feel . |
| 16 | that do explain a little bit about Abbey Life products and also have a copy of as well erm they might find that of help before I give them a call . |
| 17 | When they stop I give them a clap , but no one else does . |
| 18 | Well the only people that I actually need to write to are managers or agents and I mean I give them a print out of what I do every day |
| 19 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |
| 20 | Well he , he said if they , if , if , some , get a visitor in and I give them a cup of coffee well that 's all right , but I do n't know if it 's money or , or like maybe , maybe . |
| 21 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 22 | But she added : ‘ The people at work think I 'm insane and when I showed them the video of the bungee jump it just confirmed their opinion that I 'm a lunatic . ’ |
| 23 | I showed them the place where the monster had jumped into the lake . |
| 24 | I read them a story — not the baby , of course — I go downstairs , I eat , I turn on the news … |
| 25 | I er I court them a lot . |
| 26 | I wear them a lot . |
| 27 | Well , I like them a lot , but they make me feel kind of young and stupid at times . ’ |
| 28 | I like them a lot . |
| 29 | quickly wipe it up while I get them a drink darling . |
| 30 | ‘ I visit them every week … |