Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] them [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two companies broke off negotiations in December only to restart them two weeks ago . |
| 2 | And I 'd only done them ten minutes before |
| 3 | How can you , when you 've only met them five minutes ago ? |
| 4 | In November 1979 the Iranians had taken over the American Embassy in Teheran and held the staff hostage for 444 days , only releasing them 30 minutes after Carter had left office . |
| 5 | Urgent or not , Sladen was experienced enough to give them thirty seconds of plati-tudes while they kicked their briefcases under the table , tugged at their waistcoats — both MI6 men wore them even on a hot June day — and shuffled their papers , although few of them were prepared to put much paperwork on view . |
| 6 | but Julia said to me before she came round with Hayden she said er , cos her mum and dad are still there , not her mum and dad , her mum and step dad are still there , they 're only giving them forty pounds for nine weeks , forty pounds towards the mortgage like you know , been there since after Christmas and erm , anyway she said ooh she said , Steve said er , that 's her husband , said to me ooh is n't Emily well mannered she said , she does n't walk in the house , she waits in the doorstep you know |
| 7 | He says he only bought them 10 days ago , but he does n't have a receipt to prove it . |
| 8 | No better get them several portions . |
| 9 | Ah Have you never noticed I only have them three days a week ? |
| 10 | In the second talk , Tom Helvin , director of the Diocesan Schools Department , told delegates : ‘ The main reason for our Catholic schools is religious growth and development of the children , not merely to make them practising Catholics , but to involve them fully in parish and church . ’ |
| 11 | In the chip shop we bought some fish out the fryer and put in the top and straight away got them bloody tongs picked it up and poured the bloody grease off it and put it in the bloody bag thought it was terrible . |
| 12 | Please have a think you know have a think about some of the things have a look out if you get out anywhere tonight watching people when they 're together just watch them any ideas that you have tomorrow we 'll start off with the first ten minutes just going over some of the things we talked about this evening . |
| 13 | It might be objected that even though some criminal laws are in the interests of the dominant class and that others which are obviously not in these interests are ineffectively enforced , thus making them dead-letter laws , it still remains true that laws proscribing those types of victimizing behaviours of which we are all too aware and which set the nerve-ends of neo-classical/conservative criminologists , such as Wilson ( 1975 ) and Morgan ( 1978 ) tingling with fear and loathing , are in all our interests . |
| 14 | Francescoli , Perdomo and Sosa are among the world 's most exciting players and Uruguay 's technically adroit , close-passing , possessive style will always make them awkward opponents . |
| 15 | I 've still got them two speakers here , he wanted them . |
| 16 | They could take those who still owed them large sums to the Insolvent Debtors Court . |
| 17 | No er sorry that you 're always sending them duplicate letters are n't you ? |
| 18 | They never ever mention them bloody things , they were them windscreen wipers which I ordered before Christmas and it 's , it 's ridiculous , cos that 's , I know I can eh , I know by the er , by the er , that 's where I sent them back to that Brian Mill whatever I call it , well |
| 19 | mother-in-law always had them flat beds you know and |
| 20 | Bromine , the atom in halons which makes them effective fire fighters , also renders them three times more damaging to the ozone layer than the better known chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , used in aerosols and refrigerators . |
| 21 | The procedural structure of trusts also lent them great advantages in setting up dispositions in favour of third parties , and enhanced the chances of those dispositions being observed and enforced . |
| 22 | It probably made them half cousins . |
| 23 | The Iranians , of course , had little interest in vacations , but North could also make them wonderful offers in the currency they understood , TOWs : ‘ If you get the hostages out , we 'll send you a million of them . ’ |
| 24 | Her Sacred Majesty , being by nature full of mercy and clemency , who is most inclinable to such pitiful complaints and will not endure to hear such tragedies made of her people and poor subjects , as some about her may insinuate , then she perhaps for very compassion of such calamities will not only stop the stream of such violence and return to her wonted mildness , but also con them little thanks which have been the authors and counsellors of such bloody platforms . |
| 25 | He probably told them all lies like that . |
| 26 | It gave the clients confidence in my abilities , and also told them any hopes they may have had of getting away with a fifty dollar fee should be left with the receptionist . |
| 27 | Green was waiting for them , not only to give them lessons but also to sell them additional colours specially to represent the true Lake District tints . |
| 28 | So but I think with this I mean this homework , that 's the only thing I do n't believe in because they 've got ta revise it which is brilliant , I mean , at the moment but they also give them three hours homework a night ! |
| 29 | Sometimes one might also set them trivial tasks requiring a certain degree of intelligence to solve some problem , and the more intelligent ones would thus demonstrate their superior ability . |
| 30 | 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 . |