Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [coord] [verb] them [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I advised and charged them not to stretch themselves beyond their line by speaking out of the [ local ] society , or by fancying themselves public teachers .
2 So there 's a whole range now which requires just one prime mover to lift these pods and deposit them where they 're needed , and it 's been done in Germany elsewhere , in Fire Brigades elsewhere , certainly in Germany because I went and saw them there as well , and it 's a very simple straightforward progressive sort of way of dealing with problems of the Fire Service .
3 Hundred and two minutes each tape and I sat and watched them yesterday .
4 I found them comfortable and versatile — in warm weather I washed and wore them immediately and they dried out almost completely within 20 minutes .
5 Carefully she knelt and gathered them up .
6 She stooped and scooped them up .
7 For an age she simply had not dared open them , until finally , unable to resist any longer , she opened and shut them again once and very quickly .
8 If you turned it into a business , you could keep six maids and gardeners if you wanted and write them off against the pigs .
9 ‘ And we both know you 're not a saint , do n't we ? ’ she mocked and precipitated them back into that heady realm of awareness that they had seemed to subdue .
10 I just went past these fellows and one of them shouted , ‘ Hey , speccy four-eyes , ’ and I ignored them like you told me and then they came and took them off and stamped on them . ’
11 Then I think the erm the chairs , Malcolm phoned erm was it the homeless , was it Shelter , one of those organizations and they came and picked them up .
12 Sometimes he forgot and gave them again , which she took to be a good sign .
13 He beckoned and led them off between the Standing Stones .
14 And he went and told them how necessary it was for him to go to Canada , in the interests of the firm .
15 He rolled and tied them so that the wind would n't tear them out of his hands while he tried to position them .
16 Erm Howard was Howard wrote and told me that erm he could n't get a he did n't think he would be able to so he wrote and told them early
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