Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing deterred them . |
| 2 | Me got them buttons |
| 3 | When they went after something nothing made them waver , just as he had set after her . |
| 4 | That is getting away from the old system whereby the County Council held a vast store of advisers in Macclesfield House , stacked up , and schools that needed them requested them and off they went , but schools in fact that wanted perhaps a different sort of advice , was n't able to get it from Macclesfield House , and could n't buy it outside because it did n't have the money to do so . |
| 5 | And erm it was ex ex it was great having Chris along because erm he went out and grabbed everybody in the street , pulled them in onto the stall and er and got them got them to sign on the dotted line so to speak . |
| 6 | Britain has 35 million chickens but until recently , no-one asked them what they thought about where they lived . |
| 7 | A whispering shriek of rage and terror behind them made them jump out of their skins . |
| 8 | And well they , some of them made them themselves , some of them , they were supplied by the merchant . |
| 9 | Whatever these changes were , many who witnessed them found them worrying and unsettling . |
| 10 | Moreover , although their new jobs were temporary , not all of them regarded them as a " stop-gap " . |
| 11 | They were sighted in China , where those who attempted to eat them reported them to be tasteless or unpleasant . |
| 12 | So I asked them if they needed anyone to help out on Saturdays The guy behind the counter said , we do as it happens but you 'll have to speak to Malcolm when he comes in . |
| 13 | When I spoke to some of these women alone much later I asked them why Asian women often reacted like this ; their answers were that it was good for a man 's Izzat . |
| 14 | I asked them , ‘ How much rehearsal do I get ? ’ |
| 15 | Old hands from the music business — usually loquacious if invited to reminisce — were struck by collective amnesia when I asked them about Dury . |
| 16 | Addressing questions to a class of primary school children in a rural school at the time of the Passover , I asked them about places in the Bible where there were sheep . |
| 17 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 18 | So I asked them . |
| 19 | I asked them if they were n't several billion years too late . |
| 20 | One hundred ladies kindly volunteered and eight weeks later I asked them to complete a lengthy questionnaire . |
| 21 | If they felt they could not follow the diet or did n't want to be committed I asked them to please return all the papers , and about seventy of them did just that . |
| 22 | Before anyone commenced the diet I asked them to seek approval from their G.P. There was no doubt from the comments I received that their doctors were delighted with the format of the diet and were equally delighted with the results it achieved . |
| 23 | They were all in their early twenties when I asked them to join Bègles ’ , said Appriou . |
| 24 | I asked them , and this is what they told me . |
| 25 | I could n't tell what was happening so I asked them to move so I could take the coal into Granny 's house . |
| 26 | I asked them who this mythical creature was , but each time they just said , " You 'll see when you meet him . " |
| 27 | And I 'd got them here and I thought well I do n't know what to do with them and I b b interested in I 'm interested in going back in time , I 'll go anywhere where I can see something and I 'd been over there and they 'd got some Home Guard stuff in a case , only a small show , and I asked them if they 'd like it and they said yes . |
| 28 | Now I asked them to work in pairs or individually to find the arrangements of ten fences . |
| 29 | Theyspoketo them nicely but if I asked them for anything it was as though they could n't be bothered . |
| 30 | When I asked them about it they all said : ‘ Oh , you 've had cats all your life , you wo n't get it ’ ’ . |