Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] them [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A to help men get sexually aroused , B to make them make them look like women 's legs , C to prevent men getting sexy aroused ? |
| 2 | She suggests that the ‘ board ’ money which young people paid for living in the parental household was seen as an exchange , especially for daughters : they handed over their wages to their mothers and in exchange their mothers equipped them to enable them to go into service . |
| 3 | And erm it was ex ex it was great having Chris along because erm he went out and grabbed everybody in the street , pulled them in onto the stall and er and got them got them to sign on the dotted line so to speak . |
| 4 | I asked them to work for a loose confederation of equal republics , largely self-governing , but with certain specified powers on a federal basis . |
| 5 | Now I asked them to work in pairs or individually to find the arrangements of ten fences . |
| 6 | I make them play in uniform : |
| 7 | Only three boys understood and I got them to explain in Arabic to the rest . |
| 8 | We did the Christmassy stuff and the old New Orleans favourites and , with Trippy playing the top of the truck cab with a pair of spare drum sticks , I got them organized into a version of Masekela 's Do n't Go Lose It which lasted one and a half circuits . |
| 9 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I expect them to finish in the top two . |
| 11 | I found them built into a cottage . |
| 12 | ‘ I found them wrapped in a brown-paper parcel with ‘ Dirty Books ’ scrawled on the outside with a purple pencil . ’ |
| 13 | No-one said much to me at tea , although I caught them looking at me sometimes as they sipped at their mugs . |
| 14 | I want them split down that road |
| 15 | I want them looking after , and cou and you 're gon na , I 'm gon na say to you |
| 16 | ‘ If you mean I want them to look at my gown , you 're correct . ’ |
| 17 | I let them swim in peace . |
| 18 | In an interview in 1983 Bishop Peter said : ‘ I have a house full of young people who spend a year with me praying and working in the community to get closer to God , and I let them impinge on my ministry . |
| 19 | I remember them coming through the shop once , want any cheap bananas ? |
| 20 | The boys were younger than me but I remember them coming to school — and what a job that was for them . |
| 21 | I remember them going to your christening , up in the north somewhere — ’ |
| 22 | I tell them to pay in metal , it is easier for me to negotiate , but they always reply that it 's too hard for them to get . |
| 23 | I heard them talk about the ‘ good creature ’ who did these ‘ wonderful ’ things . |
| 24 | I heard them whispering to the other sailors several times , but I did not suspect what they were planning . |
| 25 | I left right , right , I ran off I jumped out the car because I heard them driving round the corner |
| 26 | Quite soon I heard them coming up the stairs . |
| 27 | The suspects were then brought up by number , a single man at a time ( and as I heard them begin with ‘ one ’ , the skin of my neck tightened in anticipation of gunfire which never came ) . |
| 28 | I heard them arguing with each other , and then Detchard said to the Belgian , ‘ Why , Bersonin , are you afraid of one man ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I heard them scavenging along the road somewhere in the mist . |
| 30 | After all , I 'd only just stopped doing my paper-round and I heard them talking about headlong stuff I never knew about before : abortions , heroin , Sylvia Plath , prostitution . |