Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They do n't speak English , ’ he informed her , ‘ and despite my attempts to persuade them differently they just all trooped in and sat down . |
| 2 | Letters inviting parents to join the parent — teacher association , visit the ‘ Spring Fayre ’ , to volunteer for ‘ parent-governor elections ’ , or attend a ‘ Maths Workshop ’ were put in the bin after my attempts to explain them . |
| 3 | He broke two of my teeth extracting them but he says they 're out clean , when I told him to take another X-ray of it . |
| 4 | The smoke blows in my eyes making them water and sting , so I get up , move and freeze my ass off sitting beyond the smoke in the wind up the valley . |
| 5 | I put my bags between my feet to feel them with my legs , and took out my flight ticket . |
| 6 | I stamp my feet to warm them up . |
| 7 | Neither of my parents wore them . |
| 8 | Neither of my parents wore them . |
| 9 | ‘ My parents managed them — they were a very successful partnership for many years . |
| 10 | I used to wear jeans and jackets and shirts but my parents burned them on the same day my dad beat me up , and after that I had to wear saris . |
| 11 | It goes to my muscles to make them strong . |
| 12 | My friends loaned them to me , my friend Tom erm I 've got |
| 13 | This particular girl , a model , is putting Patrick in his place by going on about cars : ‘ Most of my friends have them on the firm , ’ she said , with the sort of lift of the old proud head that he could hardly believe had not accompanied a limiting judgment on Villiers de l'Isle Adam . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ My creatures stoke them and work the treadmills , and so the Silver Looms are never allowed to still . ’ |
| 15 | I called my men to drive them back . |
| 16 | It could equally be that they had spotted my men following them and were attempting to shake them off . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm keeping my wages to buy them some myself . ’ |
| 18 | I shall be flying round there with my boxes to collect them . |
| 19 | My colleagues have them — four men , day and night . |
| 20 | The next paragraph states ‘ The scissor-like cutting action of their teeth enables them to reduce a full-sized human being to a mere skeleton in about four minutes ! ’ |
| 21 | Here their superiors criticise them for failing after they have been given such brilliant training . |
| 22 | These reforms have encouraged some historians to see the Despensers as ‘ much more than greedy and irresponsible favourites ’ , but their contemporaries judged them by their behaviour towards other landowners and by their position at court , rather than by their responsibility , however great it was , for what were essentially technical reforms in government . |
| 23 | Their enemies drove them out arid they were forced to live down in the marshes of Kelfazin . |
| 24 | A succession of rescheduling deals , known by the places — Toronto , Trinidad — in which creditors dreamt them up , have been proposed in recent years . |
| 25 | The directors , who met weekly , acted as a house committee , and the minutes of their meetings show them to have been diligent in pursuing the objectives set out in the preamble to the Act of Parliament which had brought them into existence . |
| 26 | You have to get people out from behind their desks to see them clearly . |
| 27 | The Home Office say they 'll all be interviewed , but their visas entitle them to stay in Britain for six months . |
| 28 | They rarely lived in the countryside , but their investments brought them prestige as well as profits . |
| 29 | Maureen showed me how to insert food down their throats to force-feed them , because when birds are in shock like this they just wo n't eat . |
| 30 | Lack of employment prospects for the part-time family and lack of income potential on the family farm had led the sons/daughters to use training as a means of expanding their skills to allow them to undertake contract work . |