Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] them [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two companies broke off negotiations in December only to restart them two weeks ago . |
| 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 | And I 'd only done them ten minutes before |
| 4 | so they did n't , it only cost them thirty quid for carpet |
| 5 | How can you , when you 've only met them five minutes ago ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | He says he only bought them 10 days ago , but he does n't have a receipt to prove it . |
| 10 | Ah Have you never noticed I only have them three days a week ? |
| 11 | I 've still got them two speakers here , he wanted them . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | They are expected to be issued with a writ tomorrow giving them two weeks to leave the premises . |
| 15 | Then press them two buttons whatever you do . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , his favourite pastime was kidnapping innocent virgins , holding them prisoner in his cave while he presumably had his wicked way with them , and then lowering them sixty metres down to waiting boats to be sold into slavery … ’ |
| 17 | Etienne Saqr , who used the name Abu Arz , the Father of the Cedars ’ — one of the more psychopathic of the minor Christian militia leaders — commanded a group which specialised in cruelty , whose men tied Palestinian prisoners to the backs of taxis and then dragged them 12 miles up the motorway to Jounieh . |
| 18 | we could happily give them fifteen minutes that would take up forty five minutes |
| 19 | I never saw them two fellers before , they 're new to me , ’ Peter told me . |