Example sentences of "i [verb] [vb pp] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've lots of ideas for these , but as they are all quick to make I 've left them for next month when you have finished your special presents and they are neatly folded and packed away in all their glory of tissue paper and gold and silver ribbons . |
| 2 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 3 | I was clumsy and had to pick up a couple of notes from the floor and wipe the bags where I 'd touched them with a handkerchief . |
| 4 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
| 5 | Indeed Katie 's group , when I 'd pushed them into talking about Mitch a little more , spent most of their time examining his picture and finding fault with his appearance . |
| 6 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 7 | But once I 'd given them to him I never saw them again so I imagine he must have burnt them . |
| 8 | But I 'd eluded them before and I could again , I told myself , almost jauntily , as I ambled into the bar that I decided to make my last stop for the night . |
| 9 | Not that I 'd told them about Chris , but they 'd suspected . |
| 10 | Er , it 's in the other magazine I fetched from work after the I 'd left them at work . |
| 11 | I 'd expected them to be quiet and reserved in their style as they are seemingly in their culture . |
| 12 | I 'd spotted them in a second-hand shop and immediately began saving feverishly to make them mine before anyone else got their hands on them . |
| 13 | I had joined them on their route marches out of the concentration area at Southampton . |
| 14 | I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man . |
| 15 | The only occasions on which I had seen them in operation they had failed lamentably . |
| 16 | I had seen them in Kano clutching their swords as they slept in shop doorways where they were employed as night-watchmen . |
| 17 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 18 | And when I came across people who told me I must be , at best , gullible to believe in metaphysics ( and why did n't I rejoin their random , meaningless reality ? ) , then I had invited them into my world . |
| 19 | Maureen said : ‘ I did n't think about them again until that psychic woman asked for them , but it was only after I had given them to her I realized they were n't his at all . |
| 20 | I had given them to Menna when he first left to take up his post . |
| 21 | I had bought them for very little money from a woman who looked needy . |
| 22 | I had expected them at that stage to do the decent thing and wait for us to catch up but , smelling their first blood of the season , they continued in much the same fashion and eventually ran out 7–0 victors . |
| 23 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 24 | Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions . |
| 25 | The medical profession were n't the fools I had taken them for . |
| 26 | I had taken them to the meeting . |
| 27 | The day after the ambulance took Ma away , the rotary drier vanished ; on the Sunday it had been loaded with sheets ( I had taken them down myself . |
| 28 | The time I went before that , I got erm , like a frostbitten thumb , because I was going up on the chair lift , and er , I dropped one of my gloves , and it was quite a cold day , so by the time I 'd got to the top , and skied all the way back down , and then down the road going back to try and find me gloves , because I had borrowed them from a friend , |
| 29 | The yarn I was using was cotton , a double knitting weight and not the best for cabling at any time and I did need to have cables , since I had sketched them into my design . |
| 30 | I 've tricked them into working for me . |