Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [verb] them [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever it was that lured or drove them there , these creatures , over the millennia , lumbering after their food , became more and more efficient at moving and breathing out of water . |
| 2 | Carefully she knelt and gathered them up . |
| 3 | She stooped and scooped them up . |
| 4 | Thacker enjoyed the entertainment for a full forty seconds , then stooped and pulled them apart as easily as if they were two bits of cotton fluff stuck together . |
| 5 | I advised and charged them not to stretch themselves beyond their line by speaking out of the [ local ] society , or by fancying themselves public teachers . |
| 6 | I just went past these fellows and one of them shouted , ‘ Hey , speccy four-eyes , ’ and I ignored them like you told me and then they came and took them off and stamped on them . ’ |
| 7 | Then I think the erm the chairs , Malcolm phoned erm was it the homeless , was it Shelter , one of those organizations and they came and picked them up . |
| 8 | Her lip trembled briefly as Tony hugged her and Maureen kissed her again before they left , but she quickly recovered and told them unsmilingly to give her love to her father and the family . |
| 9 | What Butthole Surfers have done , what made and makes them so crucial , is that they 've taken on the sonic possibilities bequeathed still unexplored and underdeveloped by acid rock but have jettisoned many of the disabling attitudes that originally trammelled that music — sophistication , expertise , the counter-cultural impulse to edify . |
| 10 | Sometimes he forgot and gave them again , which she took to be a good sign . |
| 11 | A lot of Scots came this way via the Northern Line from King 's Cross and they were giving their Scottish concert in the concourse when a heavy metal band arrived and told them roughly to move . |
| 12 | For an age she simply had not dared open them , until finally , unable to resist any longer , she opened and shut them again once and very quickly . |
| 13 | The fellow grinned and took them along a dark , smelly passageway into another chamber where the keeper of Newgate , Fitzosbert , was squatting behind a great oak table like a king enthroned in his palace . |
| 14 | He beckoned and led them off between the Standing Stones . |
| 15 | And he went and told them how necessary it was for him to go to Canada , in the interests of the firm . |
| 16 | Dressed up and I used to take them and I used to leave them in the kitchen and the the head kitchen maid er the head kitchen maid w went and took them in . |
| 17 | So there 's a whole range now which requires just one prime mover to lift these pods and deposit them where they 're needed , and it 's been done in Germany elsewhere , in Fire Brigades elsewhere , certainly in Germany because I went and saw them there as well , and it 's a very simple straightforward progressive sort of way of dealing with problems of the Fire Service . |
| 18 | He rolled and tied them so that the wind would n't tear them out of his hands while he tried to position them . |
| 19 | But to have a trolley they needed money , their father 's money , and when Patsy suggested the idea to him , their father laughed and asked them where they expected him to find that sort of money . |
| 20 | Madame laughed and poured them both some more tea . |
| 21 | Even when the carer is a relative , when dementia is the disease carers may feel as if the old person has in a sense already died and left them so that ‘ this is not the mother I used to know ’ . |
| 22 | Carefully she opened the drawer where the two copies of her paper lay and took them out . |
| 23 | On Saturday mornings she took them for riding lessons , waited and took them back , while Norm went out to play golf . |
| 24 | Erm Howard was Howard wrote and told me that erm he could n't get a he did n't think he would be able to so he wrote and told them early |
| 25 | The head keeper shrugged and led them back up a passageway to a cleaner empty cell . |
| 26 | The difference was that the teacher in the first group really related to the material and to the children , and she had understood the underlying purpose and challenge of RE and was able to point up the discussion , listening carefully to what the children said and leading them on in their thinking . |
| 27 | ‘ And we both know you 're not a saint , do n't we ? ’ she mocked and precipitated them back into that heady realm of awareness that they had seemed to subdue . |
| 28 | If you turned it into a business , you could keep six maids and gardeners if you wanted and write them off against the pigs . |
| 29 | Hundred and two minutes each tape and I sat and watched them yesterday . |
| 30 | I found them comfortable and versatile — in warm weather I washed and wore them immediately and they dried out almost completely within 20 minutes . |