Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] them the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | I owe them the worst : they all but destroyed me " ) , all this made Nizan an obvious candidate for a highly sectarian , aggressive , isolationist communist party . |
| 5 | They wo n't wear it for one minute when I tell them the whole story . ’ |
| 6 | Shall I tell them the latest news ? |
| 7 | Of course , I gave them the warmest spot in the garden , against my only south-facing wall . |
| 8 | I have them the undisputed champions of they 're idiots . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I buy them the same as I buy anything else and pass them on . |
| 10 | Then I , for a few minutes , we 've got only fifteen minutes so , about twelve to fifteen minutes , and I explain them the historical aspects . |
| 11 | Well they say the more you pick them the more they come is n't it ? |
| 12 | No , you make them the same as us ! |
| 13 | Yeah four months old and it , I said that 's just the way you want them the better |
| 14 | Have you se have you seen them the old fashioned boilers they used to have ? |
| 15 | ILL-MANNERED Tories booed , hissed and slow-handclapped Brighton 's Labour mayor as she told them the hard facts of life in Major 's Britain . |
| 16 | In response to the unasked question she handed them the last cans . |
| 17 | Faye whispered , her eyes misting and her throat going froggy as she showed them the tiny black-haired bundle cradled tightly in her arms . |
| 18 | She showed them the small lake in its ring of reeds , took them to the first slopes of the mountain , rigged up a fishing rod for Michael and took him to the part of the lake she used to fish as a girl , and soon he was shouting out in glee as he missed the ravenous little perch or swung them out over his head on to the bank . |
| 19 | The Geophagus will tolerate London tap , but the Crenicara filamentosa and the Rams are doomed unless you give them the right conditions . |
| 20 | Well the flowering house plants , we hope you 're going to be given for Christmas , things like cyclamen and indoor azaleas and also your indoor bowls of course will last much longer if you give them the coolest , lightest position you can . |
| 21 | The sort of stuff that you get in in y'know sort of everyday gossip between friends about y'know when people talk about each- other , oh I think he 's a bit er I think he 's a bit camp , or I think he probably is but erm yeah yeah all that kind of thing yeah erm is is like the the informal repertoire , the informal repertoire that you do between friends erm , between people to whom it sort of y'know it 's not very important if you give them the wrong impression sort of thing . |
| 22 | Yes you can , they 're on the top , you reached them the other night . |
| 23 | He took out two large plastic orange cones — the sort you get on motorway hold-ups — and gave them to me , telling me to put them the other side of the bend to slow the traffic coming down . |
| 24 | But look at it this way ; if we give them the exclusive we only have to go on the merry-go-round once . |
| 25 | Next door , the same discussion draws forth from a youth who looks about fifteen himself , ‘ We teach them the three Rs . |
| 26 | ‘ You know what men are like — swearing that their casual lovers are of no account , yet going berserk when we tell them the same thing ! ’ |
| 27 | It does n't matter if we get them the wrong way round it 'll still work out . |
| 28 | We called them The Big Ones . |
| 29 | If ones came as in little wee pi pickups we called them the little lorry things you would sort of keep your eye very much because you did n't know they were looking for scrap and if you told them you had nothing they might go away with your iron gates or something . |
| 30 | If we gave them the five hundred , we wo n't , we are within , having said that , we 're not going to give everybody everything , I do n't think . |