Example sentences of "she [vb past] them [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With an effort , she made them part , and then her vocal cords let her down by refusing to work . |
| 2 | But if she told them Nina had given her the go-ahead , and Nina discovered the lie , she would be out . |
| 3 | When she joined them Rodney was making another announcement . |
| 4 | She loaned them money , saved it for them or doled it out when necessary , all the transactions being written on the souvenir programme of whatever show she was appearing in . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh it 'll be such fun , ’ their mother had said when she kissed them good-bye at the station . |
| 6 | She called them girls but many were women whose working days went back to the Utility dresses and khaki battle-dress . |
| 7 | She was so happy with them , she called them Dad and Mum and living only a few streets away from her real mother , would visit her daily , calling her ‘ My mother 's sister ’ . |
| 8 | She sent them sweets sometimes , and several pairs of red socks she had knitted while she was waiting for a call at the ambulance station , and a photograph of herself in her uniform with a tin hat on . |
| 9 | She gave them brandy . |
| 10 | I thought that she gave them education to add to er , to the poor . |
| 11 | Yes , it is true , but I must add the following : even her hand-outs to beggars were based on negation : she gave them money not because beggars , too , belonged to mankind , but because they did not belong to it , because they were excluded from it , and probably like her , felt no solidarity with mankind . |
| 12 | If Nigel was there she gave them blankets and told them to use the sofa . |
| 13 | She always found the supper she cooked for the children irresistible and when she gave them bacon and baked beans she would swoop down on their plates like a vulture on a battlefield . |
| 14 | She had them years ago . |
| 15 | She left them side by side on the sofa , intent on a cartoon , and hurried out to the garden . |