Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] them [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bought a French team shirt , and wore it at the Liverpool game where we stuffed them 2–2 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Not all mine did , so I left them all as thick as possible and matched the thick with the thin later . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | The fish was still on , and I had the golf-ball firmly clutched in my left hand , so I landed them both . |
| 6 | None of them applied to me , so I deleted them all and put ‘ Ms ’ . |
| 7 | It sort of doubled up , or summat like that , so she crossed them all out and changed them . |
| 8 | Aye , she were washing them or summat and he were annoying her so she threw them all . |
| 9 | Sadly , we fell behind early on and never really threatened them after that , although we chased them all the way . |
| 10 | In the five years between 1982-87 Third World countries as a group , including the most impoverished and crisis-ridden in Africa , sent us $220 billion more than we sent them 3 ( see box ) . |
| 11 | He was frightened by a prophecy that his downfall would be similarly brought about by one of his own children , so he ate them all at birth — HERA , POSEIDON , Hestia , DEMETER and HADES . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I shrugged , as if I thought them honourable scars to be gained in my lady 's service . |
| 14 | If I told them that , they 'd think I meant daydreaming . |
| 15 | Will the diploma take me up if I had them two ? |
| 16 | ‘ If I sold them one or two at a time I 'd be here for twenty years . ’ |
| 17 | I 've got a few shares in British Aerospace , but nobody would notice if I sold them all . |
| 18 | I could imagine my aunt as a young girl asking for the latest of the books for birthday or Christmas until she had them all . |
| 19 | TV 's Miss Victoria ‘ Vicki ’ Michelle gets so many requests for suspenders that she 'd ‘ go BUST if she answered them all ; |
| 20 | She looked at Sophie 's stricken face and added , ‘ He told her that if she gave them some garbled story he would sack her on the spot . |
| 21 | Yes , on this window , if you had them all bunched at one side , it would be |
| 22 | So if you took them that day you 'd be going while you were on duty ? |
| 23 | PMT ( interest , term , -principal ) works out what someone would pay you if you lent them principal and this is positive . |
| 24 | You should get the same answer if you did them both . |
| 25 | They may be doing the same job as older people , but there are questions about whether you might not make more jobs for young people if you paid them seventy-five per cent , two-thirds of , of the going minimum wage . |
| 26 | I had figures which actually showed what people were watching what they would do if you gave them five to seven more hours of spare time a week , all the things they would like to learn about that they have n't already learned about . |
| 27 | Cos we said them young kids that had the trumpets for that thing , I bet she had a go at them and all not to knacker them . |
| 28 | I tell you what if we had every company that sent their two parcels a week , if we carried them all we 'd be doing well would n't we ? |
| 29 | The melodic contour would suffer if we made them all equally prominent , so we have to decide on their relative importance and stress them accordingly . |
| 30 | because if we told them that |