Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I was thinking Maureen what about them nursery teachers . |
| 2 | ‘ I know nothing about them hedgerow heathens , ’ he snapped as he went on his way , ‘ an' if you take my advice you 'll watch your pockets . ’ |
| 3 | Do n't believe this crap about them being police . |
| 4 | We 're goin' to have to cut about six inches off them knicker legs . ’ |
| 5 | But even people who are concerned about me say things which seem to be complimentary ; a teacher remarks that I have become ‘ a sylph ’ lately , Mum defends me to my grandma as ‘ naturally slender ’ , and Dad makes jokes about my skinny legs — reassuring jokes , the sort he used to make when I was little , before I became ‘ a young woman ’ and embarrassing to him . |
| 6 | I could tell you lots about me orphanage days . |
| 7 | ‘ Would you like to hear about me orphanage days ? |
| 8 | like a yellow and that just says ring , ring , ring that brings the lane and it just does that , that 's that belt , all it 's doing is taking it through them relay contacts |
| 9 | ‘ But I still used to pose on the bike for publicity purposes , ’ she 'd say archly over her tea and Eccles cakes , ‘ until the varicose veins started to show through me silver tights and Flaherty said I 'd better call it a day and let them find themselves another pin-up girl . ’ |
| 10 | Oh it 's summat about erm yeah it is you know erm where you vote for them union things I meant to ask you if they 'd got a stamp |
| 11 | Unfortunately for them Palace injuries prevented the other two players from making any more than token contributions to our promotion hopes of the late 1920s and early 1930s , but Tom Crilly , a full-back by profession , more than made up for those disappointments . |
| 12 | Only when senior creditors were paid in full would junior creditors , and after them preference shareholders , get some cash . |
| 13 | 'Less you want some of me lead pipes . ’ |
| 14 | Now , three-fifths of insurers ' assets are bonds — a quarter of them government bonds . |
| 15 | Most of the patients assaulted by Dr Gordon Maden were young men with severe psychosocial problems — many of them drug addicts with a criminal record . |
| 16 | ‘ I ai n't going to one of them council homes , I ai n't ! |
| 17 | ‘ Well , I ca n't see me wearing one of them suspender belts , ’ said Bella . |
| 18 | It is good to know that employee trustees have been introduced within the JS pension scheme , but I would nevertheless question whether ‘ ordinary employees ’ are likely to affect the deliberations and decisions of the present high-powered trustees , all of them JS directors , either currently or ex ? |
| 19 | The unit of pollination is a capitulum of flowers ; of the 11 species studied , nine were bat-pollinated , the capitula with flowers opening for 1 night , secreting copious nectar and being bright red or yellow or both , with characteristic scents : they are visited by eight species of bat , some of them nectar thieves . |
| 20 | A likely story , retorted many letter writers , some of them whisky fanciers . |
| 21 | A total of 53 fans , 34 of them Middlesbrough supporters , were arrested for public order offences in connection with the promotion clash but a police spokesman said overall the crowd was well-behaved . |
| 22 | By rights they should put a bloody one of them drain things around should n't they ? |
| 23 | Well Cajun stuff and all that I thought , and then there 's them you can do some long kebabs and all that , that 's why if we get one of them charcoal grills that you can pa shoo , shee shoo . |
| 24 | Surprisingly enough , the small island of Jersey has been host to about 5,000 Madeirans , many of them contract workers in the hotels for the season . |
| 25 | The literature of the castle , published by the 29th Laird of Dunvegan , John Macleod of Macleod , makes the business plain : ‘ Since the castle was first opened to the public more than forty years ago , the number of visitors has risen from a few hundred to tens of thousands ’ — many of them Macleod descendants from the New World . |
| 26 | George Friel took his goal tally for the season to 35 , the others coming from Francis Vines and Steve Milton in front of a crowd of 1,184 — an estimated 800 of them Woking supporters . |
| 27 | ‘ You read too many of them detective stories . ’ |
| 28 | put one of them metal things in |
| 29 | You should get some of them caterpillar boots about eighty , but they 'll last for years . |
| 30 | And we have had a sitdown Chinese meal where Craig has laid claim to having spent a night sleeping ‘ on one of them tofu things ’ . |