Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] them [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 2 | I observed them with the silent attention a tiger must give its approaching prey . |
| 3 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 4 | I saw them through The Fat Controller 's eyes — they were gauche and dowdy , crammed into suitings so ill-fitting that they looked like bolsters stuffed into pillow cases . |
| 5 | Then , arranging the largest red roses at equally spaced intervals around the circle , I balanced them with the large single pink roses — it is always important to introduce both light and shade into a design , otherwise it can look very dull . |
| 6 | I took them to the dry cleaner 's this afternoon . ’ |
| 7 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
| 8 | I left them in the self-induced bedlam of a Harvey Nichols changing room , and promised to meet them later at the flat to examine our spoils , then went to meet Dee . |
| 9 | These are n't my lecture notes they I cribbed them off the social psychologist and made copies last night . |
| 10 | ‘ In the 1950s and 60s there were superb beers — if you caught them on the right day . |
| 11 | She found them in the Green Room . |
| 12 | She told them about the disturbed girl at St Cecilia 's , the girl called Julie who performed feats of levitation , and about the girl who could read a page of a newspaper and remember it , and Enid who could hypnotize with a fountain-pen top . |
| 13 | I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life . |
| 14 | She arranged them on the big table on the terrace where they looked impeccable , like clothes set out for a wedding . |
| 15 | She warned them about the steep steps . |
| 16 | She took them through the square hall into a sitting-room and offered them sherry . |
| 17 | She kept them in the other day because she sa , erm or something need to keep the , we think it was them anyway with Mrs kept one group in cos erm , she said that someone had nicked off with her pen or something and it was underneath the desk , it had rolled off the desk ! |
| 18 | She presented them with the annual Child of Achievement awards , given to children who 've overcome extraordinary difficulties just to live a normal life . |
| 19 | you 're absolutely spot on , cos you had them on the other one did n't you ? |
| 20 | Plumping up the pillows , she set them against the padded headrest and left , closing the door behind her . |
| 21 | Derek , just keep up the pressure , just demonstrate how we got them by the short and curlies and |
| 22 | They had bought flowers in the village and they laid them on the new grave . |
| 23 | In the years that followed , the German bourgeoisie gained considerable economic and industrial power , but did not struggle against the Junkers since they regarded them as the very backbone of German society ; the Junkers , even though they were already ‘ pensioners of economic history ’ were a convenient rallying point for Völkisch opinion and as such had no particular reason to adapt to the changing economic structure of Europe or Germany . |
| 24 | Erm , you see they were dyed on the wrong side you know they were of course it was easier to penetrate than it would be if they dyed them on the right side you see , it was technically i far far superior . |
| 25 | Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner . |
| 26 | Yeah they had them in the little packs , okay ? |
| 27 | Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes . |
| 28 | My text here is Evans-Pritchard 's unrivalled study of the witchcraft beliefs of the Zande people of the southern Sudan as he found them in the late 1920S and early 1930S living under the generally benign rule of the British raj . |
| 29 | After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench . |
| 30 | The January price rises [ see p. 38730-31 ] had been higher than expected and painful , but he described them as the logical conclusions of the policies of Soviet Prime Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov and Valentin Pavlov . |