Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I know , for instance , the institute charges for them are crippling them , you know , and to put on a production is incredibly expensive . |
| 2 | So , rather than binning them directly , I am passing them to you ( and your Convocation Office colleagues ) . |
| 3 | " Hamish , oh I am so pleased to see you " , he said , " I have got a very important job tonight , one of my clients is over from France with his wife and daughter and I am entertaining them . |
| 4 | ’ And from , or nearly from , the outset there is the hint of a three-cornered relationship in which the future reader of the as yet unwritten Possessed joins novelist and narrator in a conspiracy to uphold the truth of the fiction : ‘ Altogether , when I describe conversations , even tête-à-tête conversations between two people — do n't worry : either I have hard facts , or perhaps I am inventing them myself — but in any case rest assured that everything is true . ’ |
| 5 | I do n't need to tell him this because I am clutching them upright in my hand . |
| 6 | But no doubt I am watching them too , he decided , for as an anthropologist he knew that men and women may observe each other as warily as wild animals hidden in long grass . |
| 7 | In which case , it seems worth asking why I am considering them at all within the limited confines of this book . |
| 8 | Not only will I be dealing with some of your concerns through ‘ Vet 's Corner ’ , but I am taking them up with the very people who make the food — with some eye-opening results ! |
| 9 | Quite by chance in collecting material for I have come across a cousin who is the communications and Public relations person at so I am to put them in touch with each other as the one in London has just had a letter from another in Vancouver trying to do family research . |
| 10 | Because I have three sons , and I am buying them one each . |
| 11 | ‘ The point is that I am teaching them a difference , ’ Diana told a friend . |
| 12 | But I am teaching them how to programme the video properly , Mr Lang . |
| 13 | In passing , I might say how extraordinarily lucky I am to have them here with me . |
| 14 | They sleep in the same room with each other , and look beautiful when I am putting them to bed , jumping and hopping about quite naked , rejoicing in the freedom of no clothes . |
| 15 | I am doing them in a minute . |
| 16 | " " I am having them delivered , " answered El-ahrairah . |
| 17 | I am keeping them alive in my heart and I want you all to do the same . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I am asking them to satisfy myself , and because doing nothing bores me . |
| 19 | I am giving them the most careful and thorough consideration , and I shall reach a decision and announce it as soon as I can . |
| 20 | I am trailing them along the line of their tea-breaks and their modest working lunches of packet soup followed by something you eat with mustard . |
| 21 | For a moment even the voice I am drafting them in changes . |
| 22 | Should n't I be calling them to get you , as a common house-breaker ? ’ |
| 23 | There 's a , as I 'm speeding them round here , oh one nine , nine , seven , that 's Charlie 's size as well |
| 24 | I 'm breaking them in for a horse . |
| 25 | I go to college now I 'm doing my G C S Es and I 'm enjoying them very much and I 'm glad I went onto that course first . |
| 26 | I 'm bringing them back . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm teaching them to hold the pencil properly and write their names , ’ she says . |
| 28 | But I I 'm wearing them all a little bit longer , except in the the winter cos I ca n't ca n't alter my coat I have got a longer summer coat to wear but the the one I had last year erm all the skirt showed beneath , I could n't walk about like that . |
| 29 | I 'm wearing them . |
| 30 | If they do n't respond I will say the next letter will be , okay I am now resigning and your car and your stock wo n't be returned to you er but I 'm holding them in lieu . |