Example sentences of "them a few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The kids used to be standing there one time — well , we hit them a few times with the cape and it had a bottle in it . |
2 | In a recent case , the police posed as ordinary civilians in order to trap a shop owner , licensed to sell liquor by the case only , into selling them a few cans of lager and a bottle of wine . |
3 | If you live in the Wallingford area and have a railway interest perhaps you might like to join this enthusiastic group and give them a few hours of your time . |
4 | shepherds pie yesterday and I did them a few chips with it as well . |
5 | Anyway , he gave them a few examples of the jobs he was looking for and they told him he was unqualified . |
6 | I did their first demos with them , and took the opportunity of telling them a few facts of life , saying that while it was nice to play guitar , if at the end of the line they were all broke then they were going to be very unhappy musicians who had missed their chance to be big , and so they had better take care of certain realities and do it right away . |
7 | Could he give them a few facts about himself for the company 's press release ? |
8 | BY THE time they got to Woodstock they might have been half a million strong , but give them a few days in the mud and they 'd soon wandered off into an acid daze looking for luxuries like a toilet , somewhere to sleep and a decent tofu burger . |
9 | It gusted through the council estate they were now in , picking up sweet papers and whisking them a few yards down the street . |