Example sentences of "them and [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gust of warmth , beer and music rushing out to meet them and suck them in towards the bar . |
| 2 | As Korah , Dathan and Abiram stand defiantly at the doors of their tents with their wives and children , the ground opens beneath them and swallows them up , together with the tents and all their belongings . |
| 3 | It must be one of the major frustrations of being a veterinary surgeon that you can never convince your patients that you are on their side and are working tirelessly to save them and help them back to full health . |
| 4 | Every station sent in the reports in code and we collected them and sent them on to Bomber Command Headquarters . |
| 5 | So after they had fasted and prayed , they placed their hands on them and sent them off . |
| 6 | The Black Prince led a cavalry charge against them and forced them back towards the River Miosson . |
| 7 | 4 Discuss with your partner how the two stories have changed between telling them and writing them down . |
| 8 | 4 Discuss with your partner how the two stories have changed between telling them and writing them down . |
| 9 | It does not mean — what it all too often has become — an aid to impulse buying , ‘ immediate ’ gardening , and the idea that ‘ if we lift them and pot them up instead of leaving them in the ground , we can sell them in a couple of weeks time as ‘ container grown ’ ’ . |
| 10 | He blew a lot of his money on gambling , even slot machines , and buying cars before he got bored with them and sold them off for a fraction of the price he paid for them . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Then get them and put them on ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Collar ’ was thus often used as a way of asking to go outdoors , and after saying ‘ Collar ’ , the chimpanzees would often go search for them and put them around their necks while pant-hooting in anticipation . |
| 13 | and she says she sat , she sat er still you know with her arms folded and all like that and she says , oh she says I think you er collect the books and stamp them and put them back on the shelves and she said they all laughed , but she got the job in opposition to er , a few others you know |
| 14 | Sixty of them and put them out and make them into nice little lines and that and see what things you 'd have to multiply together to make twelve or what numbers you 'd multiply together cos it 'd be so many sets of like four sets of three or three sets of four . |
| 15 | We have kept this fish in the office brackish tank for a number of years without breeding success , and Derek has undertaken to find out how to breed them and write it up for PFK . |
| 16 | Er he used to do , we used to have a round each morning and collect all the films from the chemists and then we developed and printed them and took them back at night . |
| 17 | And I 'll say this now , they was in business there , nextdoor , and I knew them like that , they says any machinery come here and use it , and they 'd got shears and all that sort of thing , and with their help , you know , I had these four locks and did them and took them down in no time to m to er , to and they was flabbergasted because of the quickness of them , you know , and they says er we can always find you sommat to work if er this is the case . |
| 18 | Forest-living Indians catch them and roast them over a fire so that the poison drips from their skins . |
| 19 | After killing a number of traders and native policemen , and an elder who had counselled prudence , they took to the hills , where a detachment of the King 's African Rifles surprised them and drove them out , with about twenty casualties . |
| 20 | please look after them and bring them back each day , you 'll find a bandage and a roll of bandage in there and so their your own properties |
| 21 | The tiny parrot was a thrilling novelty , and before long every visitor to the Australian colonies was attempting to catch them and bring them back as souvenirs . |
| 22 | She does n't avoid the painful issues that divide us — but , as few writers can , she makes us laugh at them and bring them down to size . |
| 23 | At an ordinary time it would have been almost impossible to enter undetected , but tomorrow morning , when the Lord of Parfois brought home from France his forty knights and their followings , and the entire population of the castle came out to meet them and bring them in , then one more insignificant boy might very well slip unnoticed into the throng and get by the guard at the gate unchallenged . |
| 24 | They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers . |
| 25 | The agent will give a demonstration of the goods on sale , and visitors can examine them and try them out . |
| 26 | For a start , he kept losing the notes , and then , when he had managed to find them and set them out on his desk , he seemed to lack the will to start work on them . |
| 27 | " Distractedly , he began to change hammer , pouch , pipe and matches from hand to hand , dropping them and picking them up , before finally deciding to put the hammer down and stuff the rest into his pockets . |
| 28 | He had n't eaten all day , so he opened one of them and cooked it up . |
| 29 | Well , oh best if you cut them almost to the end like that then butter them and stick them back together again Have I got that cream ? |
| 30 | Caird specialises in buying small waste management and landfill companies , integrating them and bringing them up to existing and proposed European standards on waste disposal . |