Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [conj] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tapped them blindly to sound as if counting them out . |
| 2 | If you are clear who you are writing to and address them directly , the tone of your letter has a good chance of appropriately expressing your message . |
| 3 | you know I can understand now the people that have n't got the truth , when one of the , the mate , when the mate dies whether a woman or a , or a , or a husband dies , they want to die , they do n't want to live because I felt that , I felt that , what 's there , what 's there me left to live , my kids they 're , they have their own families , there all time , they have no time , I brought up three children , I have a full time job and I have time for every one of them to look after and to bring them up and to set them on their way to live and not one of them became a prisoner or something , you know , they 're all have nice jobs and , and nice kid nice people , one , nobody 's in the truth the boys |
| 4 | We feel that we will be criticized if an old person is found in less than perfect conditions , and we will be thought of as neglecting them . |
| 5 | People with loadsamoney — ’ he said it as one word just to prove he had learned something living in London — ‘ buy them to play with and throw them away when they 're bored with ‘ em . |
| 6 | Locke 's thought is that , just as we can distinguish between the characteristics of gold ( or the clock ) , and its corpuscular constitution ( or internal mechanism ) , so we can distinguish between the characteristic properties of a triangle , and what accounts for or explains them . |
| 7 | It was then as if the rotting maggot-infested flesh , or the tags of matted clothing , had already become part of the earth which clung to and enclosed them , no more unnatural or frightening than a clump of compost or a drift of decaying leaves . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've called up the PR firm we normally liaise with and given them the name of the hotel you 're booked into . |
| 9 | A certain gentleman might have been punished if somebody had passed by and seen them . ’ |
| 10 | These doctors then make their own contracts with whatever hospitals or other providers they wish to and pay them from their larger budget . |
| 11 | Also contact the housing department of the local authority or new town development corporation in the area you want to move to and ask them whether they have any low-cost home-ownership schemes for first-time buyers . |
| 12 | We have stood by and allowed them . |