Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] them [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone , including the Indians , seemed to be happy and laughing , and in my surly mood I unkindly wished them all in hell — chiefly because no one was in any hurry to serve me and I had to sit and watch a party at the next table consume a feast that looked to me as if it had issued straight from Nirvana , before I was even shown a menu . |
| 2 | ‘ I only charged them fifty pence so we wo n't get rich on that , but it 's probably done our reputation a lot of good . ’ |
| 3 | I had known Willie since childhood days at Nairn , Geoffrey I had come to know later ; and while I greatly admired them both , and still do , I found this closing of establishment ranks deeply shocking . |
| 4 | I mean they 're the ones who are badgering me for , for qualifications , they 're badgering me for , I , I , I just told them straight that I will do it for them because I , I wo n't get paid for it |
| 5 | ‘ I just threw them all in the bin , ’ remembers Judith , 27 , from Cambridge . |
| 6 | Do n't know , and I want for as well for options cos I want to get everything done , I already forewarned them last time |
| 7 | ‘ I probably met them all . |
| 8 | Please continue to send papers for any relevant meetings and an attempt will be made to respond to appropriate issues , if there is any specific topic you wish to be considered , please do not hesitate to get in touch so I thought that was quite a nice letter seeing as I practically read them all |
| 9 | I never cut them all till about beyond the middle of June . |
| 10 | I never saw them two fellers before , they 're new to me , ’ Peter told me . |
| 11 | And she always gave them good measure and did an awful trade . |
| 12 | ‘ You probably took them this morning while I was sleeping , or maybe right now , before I got back from the jetty . ’ |
| 13 | She wondered if she really liked them any more , if they still struck her as both noble and imaginative in the highest degree . |
| 14 | She simply sucked them blank , feeling the change through the paper , distantly aware of that part of the City being snapped out of existence as a string is snapped unknotted by a skilled conjurer . |
| 15 | Shutting her eyes , she then snapped them open again in panic as his mouth touched gently against hers . |
| 16 | You know , I mean we just got them cheap erm lampshades from now on er cos it 's not worth it cos th the expensive ones are just getting damaged all the time . |
| 17 | ‘ We also told them that failure to act would help swell the ranks of paramilitary organisations . |
| 18 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
| 19 | Last week they got so fed up with commuters crowding round their screens to find out the train times — because the computer board was n't working — they just switched them all off . |
| 20 | They also gave them general intelligence tests so that they could exclude the effects of variations in intelligence . |
| 21 | He eventually shared them all out . |
| 22 | While this may have appeared to solve the monarchy 's immediate problems , in the long run it only made them worse . |
| 23 | He says he only bought them 10 days ago , but he does n't have a receipt to prove it . |
| 24 | It was very , very close , the difference was two or three big points , he just played them that little bit better . ’ |
| 25 | He probably told them all lies like that . |
| 26 | It probably made them half cousins . |
| 27 | Once he even knocked them both down the stairs and sent them to bed with no dinner because they had returned with nothing . |
| 28 | He certainly Dreamed them that way . |