Example sentences of "them [coord] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The courses are designed for anyone in the voluntary sector who is unsure how the changes will affect them or who simply wants to be better informed .
2 and , cos I said to the dealers for a long time you know do n't put them under stairs , do n't put them in store rooms , they get locked , locked up with vacuum cleaners and you ca n't get to the gear when you go to them , do n't put them high up on the wall we ca n't reach them and they just laugh , but er , I think the last laugh 's on us now cos er if I see one high up on the wall , I say well that , I say we 're not accepting that , you have to move it
3 But they had all their equipment with them and they just stood on the deck and underneath below deck were the people who rowed the boats over .
4 These secondary resources are so abundant , however , that competition rarely arises for them and they thus constitute a reserve when primary resources are few .
5 Far from dissuading the rodents , the smell of lavender positively encouraged them and they soon ate through the paper plugs .
6 Our customers were mostly quiet , farming people ; the captain frightened them and they soon learned to leave him alone .
7 They would lie for hours , hardly moving , before a sudden noise startled them and they instinctively dived for cover .
8 ‘ Piss orf , ’ I hissed at them and they calmly turned away and continued down the street , convinced I really was a genuine cabby .
9 His wife , Aunt Ann , was kept heavy with child most of the time , but she lost most of them and they only had the four .
10 In those areas people can see what Labour councillors are doing for them and they only have to look at what Labour councillors are achieving locally and they will transfer their votes to labour for a national election ’ .
11 Using a line disturbs all the rabbits ; it touches them and they then dash for home .
12 The first thing they will then discover is that all the other grown-ups in the room tower above them and they actually have to crane their necks to look at their faces .
13 These have something of the character and purpose of propaganda about them and they therefore need cautious exegesis , but they at least manifest the king 's view of his subjects ' expectations and in doing so reveal the model to which he felt he should conform .
14 I think it 's true to say that we give it to them and we also drink it ourselves .
15 She , she can re do them and we just have , microwave them when , as and when .
16 ‘ In the second half it became increasingly difficult for them and we simply capitalised on our chances . ’
17 ‘ In the second half it became increasingly difficult for them and we simply capitalised on our chances . ’
18 What attracts them and what exactly do they do ?
19 Some people , all you need is one look at them and you just know their feet are going to smell .
20 Well you just got into the way you lifted them and you just look my elbows are .
21 the colours and everything and the order you want them , but the little figures erm , she buys them and she just paints them , and that 's how she could make er the ones for Shirley er for me , erm she gets little soldiers and she can paint them in the camouflage dress
22 having your normal period was n't ever mentioned , I was just sent along to the lav , my sister came with me , she said ‘ you wear this ’ , and that was that — My mother never even mentioned it … you got married and you had children , I did n't know there was such a thing that you could not have them and it just went on and on .
23 I told him that I did n't mix with them and it never came into my life or my conversation . ’
24 There was the sound of a car behind them and it suddenly became very light .
25 The er his report has gone to the policy group it 's been talke discussed by them and it now goes to the policy advisory group .
26 But I 'm not very well with them and I just think they 're terrible .
27 Mum followed them and I too decided to find Frankie to tell him the news after I had cleared away the crocks .
28 There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice .
29 The two police surgeons who so bitterly opposed them and who scarcely emerged from the inquiry untarnished , work on , while Sue Richardson , Cleveland 's child abuse adviser , still works in the county , but with abused adults .
30 On the one side , the callers : individuals who have been deluded into believing that the prime function of a national government is to look after them and who therefore itemise their personal miseries in public ( unemployed , house repossessed , eldest son unable to claim benefit , one leg ) before asking the politician : ‘ What I want to know is , what you going to do for me ? ’ — for all the world as though asking a pretty sharp question .
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