Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] them [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I asked in the other classes , three or four American students , and I asked them the same question . |
| 2 | ‘ And I sold them the best . |
| 3 | Three of them floated in a sea of garlic and tomato and although I found them no better than chewy chicken my wife told me they were well up to scratch . |
| 4 | Later , when Frankie and Liza , my brother and sister , came in from playing I told them the sad news , but they did n't seem very upset . |
| 5 | My eyes were shut most of the time now as I blundered round the park and when I opened them a red mist swirled . |
| 6 | And they , the company wrote back and said it 's so much a policy and looks reasonable and I sent them a bloody cheque you see |
| 7 | I said to them it was placing the team and the ARFU in a terrible situation and I gave them a 5.30 pm deadline otherwise the tour was off . |
| 8 | I gave them a bogus address but they did n't check it out . |
| 9 | I gave them a three-hour lecture on the basic principles of stochastics , he said . |
| 10 | Well , in my book nothing comes before football and so I gave them a simple ultimatum : ‘ Make your choice . |
| 11 | There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth . |
| 12 | I gave them a three-minute start then Bogartishly gunned my heap . |
| 13 | I was scared of them but I was n't going to let them get away so I gave them a good run for their money . |
| 14 | I gave them a good show , with my writhings and moanings . |
| 15 | Well he said on that tape , I gave them a fat cheque of six thousand pounds . |
| 16 | Of course , I gave them the warmest spot in the garden , against my only south-facing wall . |
| 17 | She has got in ( and out of ) problems with drugs , alcohol and a quasi-religious cult : ’ I was brainwashed and I gave them an enormous amount of money , ’ she says with a shrug . |
| 18 | Most people are accustomed to follow linguistic rules more or less slavishly , but in this case they would be glad to change if only someone gave them a new set of clear rules to follow ( an earlier work by Miller and Swift was subtitled ‘ New Language in New Times ’ : it seems they take the optimistic view that we are living in a postfeminist world ) . |
| 19 | Correction , someone gave them an early Christmas present . |
| 20 | Altogether , I did them a good turn . |
| 21 | shepherds pie yesterday and I did them a few chips with it as well . |
| 22 | About 30 girls from the Dance-In Studio in Darlington took part in the session , which taught them a small part of the ballet . |
| 23 | The workers devised detailed outreach strategies ( based on surveys , including a local talent survey , and community consultations ) which taught them a great deal about the skills and experiences in the area , and attitudes to unemployment . |
| 24 | Closer to Europe the British set up a blockade of Brest , a step which took them a long way towards war with France , and began looking for allies to protect Hanover against France in the event of a continental war . |
| 25 | Parliament did not often pass laws with any wide-ranging implications , and the most wide-ranging recent laws , the religious legislation of the Reformation , were never applied at all precisely in America , but no legal framework could have been imagined for the colonies which gave them a legitimate position under English law without putting them under the legislative supremacy of Parliament . |
| 26 | This meant that people were no longer willing to put up with unsatisfactory Church officials ; laymen especially were developing a personal spirituality which gave them a new confidence and commitment to their faith and which also enabled them to form an independent view of theology and Church organisation ; they no longer had to rely on the educated establishment . |
| 27 | The achievement of Edward IV and Henry VII lay less in the size of their income than in their creation of a landed estate which gave them a substantial revenue over which they had complete control . |
| 28 | In due course , all South Metropolitan cars were fitted with these hoops , which gave them a distinctive appearance . |
| 29 | They preferred their little aerosols of teargas which gave them a false sense of security . |
| 30 | It was for this reason that the fieldworkers in the other areas , who were not local residents , adopted the role of ‘ a friend of a friend ’ which gave them a clear status of an informal kind . |