Example sentences of "[verb] and [pers pn] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now people get all the sugar they want and it makes them sick . |
| 2 | T'missus at Laurels lets me bring 'ome what I want and I reckon them carnations is me favourite . " |
| 3 | You could have a look but like I say , ordering freebies now it 's up to the sales people to tell me what they want and I order them on their behalf . |
| 4 | The girl 's hands trembled and she clenched them . |
| 5 | I want that somebody found and I want them talking . ’ |
| 6 | In short , it was claimed that meditators ' moral senses were enlivened and it helped them ‘ become better Christians ’ . |
| 7 | He reminded them of all the things that he 'd said and done and he prepared them for their mission in the world . |
| 8 | And they entertained us and then some carol singers came and we asked them in and they sang carols and the food was nice and everybody really was very happy and that was the start of our Christmas holiday . |
| 9 | particularly the length of time that was away I was really sure that had got on to incidentally it 's worth saying that the B B C re they do they use professional readers who make a report on every piece they receive and they file them . |
| 10 | I am not permitted to have intercourse for three weeks after surgery , but there are other things we can do and we do them . |
| 11 | ‘ The bosses at Barnsley know what John can do and I trust them to watch over his progress . |
| 12 | And as part of the deal , I had some petty cash with which to buy them all sandwiches and coffee so they could get changed or dressed while they ate and I took them to the next job if they had one , or wherever they wanted to go . |
| 13 | But they took people in Angola and Zambia and they murdered and they raped them . |
| 14 | Coffee was made and she called them , setting down the pot to complete her shadow picture . |
| 15 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 16 | There was no question about it — people knew who I was and if they did n't they asked and I told them . |
| 17 | Oh well we try and keep all the cows mid-fifties as far as the cows goes and we run them all home here . |
| 18 | Seneca wrote that ‘ when we want to reach a city or marketplace , we watch where the people are going and we follow them ; but in life we should watch where they go and then we should go in the opposite direction . ’ |
| 19 | I have a pair of brown suede brogues that are really worn and I prefer them in their frazzled state ! |
| 20 | Still , I 'll vote for them all the same , it 's the devil I know and I know them both . |
| 21 | and er you know if they did erm I mean Martin asked about the , he asked about the good wood guide you know and I told them where they can get it but that they can have it in their office and put it in their library . |
| 22 | BRC was contacted and we found them somewhere to live and someone from their own country to look after them . |
| 23 | She has got in ( and out of ) problems with drugs , alcohol and a quasi-religious cult : ’ I was brainwashed and I gave them an enormous amount of money , ’ she says with a shrug . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought they were going to throw me out while the car was moving and I asked them to stop . |
| 25 | Only three boys understood and I got them to explain in Arabic to the rest . |
| 26 | That 's what they were saying and I fought them . ’ |
| 27 | If the big winds are blowing and you bribe them right , our staff may prolong safety cover to allow those who can competently carve gybe and water start to continue sailing . |
| 28 | You say if , if all your loans to B Sky B were performing and you consolidated them erm , what your income would be ? |
| 29 | The young man and the girl did not see him coming and he caught them both around their legs and knocked them onto the floor . |
| 30 | a few years ago when my sons were teenagers I had some nice dripping and I said , you 've never had bread and dripping and I gave them some , I put a bit of salt on , I said , try this , I loved a bit of med bread and dripping when I was your age . |