Example sentences of "'em [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Now the boatmen they used to erm the name , the family of a name of , and the old man , the grandfather his name was and then they had three sons who were boatmen , one was called Arthur John , one had a nickname of Snowball , the other one 's name was George and they used to er , some of them at times used to row from the lock gates out to the Cork Lightship together to get a boat , so they made sure of roping that boat in at , at er in the dock or at Cliff Quay and course they used to get the captain of the ship to sign er a bill and they used to take that to the , to the shipping agent and then he 'd pay 'em the money .
2 ‘ I gave 'em the price of a pint or two , in hopes they might come and spend it at the Watermen !
3 Very hard , very hard I told the lads I told 'em the union about it what he done that day .
4 Give 'em the Lyle 's Smile .
5 So something happened there at that house , we told 'em the house number , where the lamp 's situated , we gave 'em all the information they they need but we still ca n't get any response .
6 What the right-wingers are saying is that we will have the trade unions ' money but we will not give 'em the right to vote .
7 I did n't give them my mouse , er , I gave 'em the mouse but no joy-stick .
8 Christ , there seem to be more of 'em every season . ’
9 Gets 'em every time .
10 Tell 'em every time
11 What about taking 'em a bottle ?
12 Girls gathered round the Watling Street Guard demanding their torn mini-skirts back and a little posse of skinheads formed in front of the Brits shouting : ‘ Give 'em a knuckle samwidge , mate , ’ ‘ Yeah , put the boot in ’ .
13 ‘ They may have done , but we 'll save 'em a journey if they have n't , ’ said Farmer Olinton , ‘ and I do n't think there 's much doubt that it 'll be a wasted journey now if they do come . ’
14 I , I told them when I was over week , but he just says to keep giving 'em a tr give 'em a chance .
15 Give 'em a chance .
16 give 'em a go , let's go and sit and listen to what the bloke says
17 I want you to give 'em a jab wi' your needle . "
18 ‘ Show 'em a bar o' soap and they 're anybody 's , ’ said his mate .
19 Give 'em a clip round the ear , soon dries 'em up .
20 ‘ I 'll be doing 'em a favour — magazines pay a pittance anyway .
21 There was n't much I could tell 'em except ter give 'em a description o' the Italian-lookin' bloke .
22 It 's just sort of looking at 'em a bit .
23 We could give 'em a bit more , we could give , we could give 'em the four hundred pounds .
24 You can tell 'em a mile off .
25 But I , in my workings out , I 'd thought five hundred pounds was the you know you can give 'em a lot less than that , and not , not gon na fund much of an activity , I do n't think the silence was deafening .
26 The landlord went and got 'em a snack if they liked one .
27 The electricity cable laying to give 'em a job so you could play for the Ipswich Electric Supply Team and we had a jolly good team , we won the cup for the first three years that it was in being but the finals used to be on Portman Road and course that was in those days a thing to be looked forward to .
28 Oh and she 's just said you know get 'em a questionnaire done , that was really what was
29 But that but that 's tha that 's defeating the whole object of the exercise of getting you know more foot patrols , because it 's foot patrols that they 're talking about all the time , if you give 'em a car you go back to the you know the fire brigade syndrome when it was zip zip zip
30 Now , what you 're saying is , if we do n't allow 'em a carport or something there , they 're gon na park outside .
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