Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] them [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
| 2 | ‘ After The White Lion won they gave me £6,000 and told me to get them another , so I sold them three shares in Rambo 's Hall — who I 'd bought cheaply in a job lot as a yearling — for £1,500 each . |
| 3 | I got them last night , you know . |
| 4 | Well , I charged them six shillings and out the three of them went puffing their heads off . |
| 5 | I phoned them last week and said you know have you got any suggestions , and they said they 'd come back to me and they have n't . |
| 6 | I seen them this morning so tell Mr |
| 7 | and I used them this year and they er I 've got quite a lot of Right furry I was er hoping to get I do n't think these 'll come out somehow . |
| 8 | They liked me because I told them dirty jokes , made good after-dinner speeches , did a reasonable job for them in terms of links with government and that kind of thing , and had a bit of class . |
| 9 | ‘ I told them several times I had met him only briefly . |
| 10 | " I told them three days before we can finish repairs , " he told us , " but we can do enough tomorrow to hold us to Banda , if weather is good . " |
| 11 | The family could not speak English and my schoolboy French was almost exhausted so I bade them good afternoon but managed to make them understand that I would have dinner with them one evening soon — ‘ An English dinner . ’ |
| 12 | I finished them last night . ’ |
| 13 | Well well I say I rang them first time . |
| 14 | ‘ I rang them first thing , but no one fitting your description has been reported missing anywhere in the entire country as yet . |
| 15 | Because I felt them last night and felt ooh this sticky anyway oops |
| 16 | I offered them all glasses as well , and Angelica took one and went on bellyaching to all around her about how Steve had let her down and she should never have trusted the louse , and it was a tribute to her acting that there was a distinct drawing aside of skirts in the pursed mouths of those around her who were fed up with hearing about it . |
| 17 | I saw them all war in her face . |
| 18 | I saw them this morning . |
| 19 | I thought them poor cars behind me . |
| 20 | I shrugged , as if I thought them honourable scars to be gained in my lady 's service . |
| 21 | I thought them extraordinary Performances for a Girl of her Age , and one that had so little Advantage ( or rather none at all ) either from Books or Conversation : But my bad State of Health prevented me from making any further Enquiry concerning this young Genius , till about fourteen Months before her Death , when I was first inform 'd she had wrote a Tragedy . |
| 22 | That 's happened , I could n't get any one year I took the triplets to the erm Goose Hill coffee morning in the Town Hall and I gave them all money for the tombola and one of them won a Creme Egg |
| 23 | I gave them false names , they checked my fingerprints and found out who I was . |
| 24 | Anyhow I gave them some antibiotic powder to put in its drinking water just in case it had a mild infection and they went away happy and said they would tell their friends . ’ |
| 25 | Oh I 've bought her sweets , I bought them last week and I forgot to leave them |
| 26 | I bought them last week . |
| 27 | I had them three jacks . |
| 28 | I wished them good day . |
| 29 | ‘ They were when I left them this morning ’ |
| 30 | I left them some tea bags there today . |