Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenneth adores him and commandeered him the moment he arrived , allowing me to join them on a walk after yet another edible meal ( any more of this clever cooking and you 'll ruin your reputation ) . |
| 2 | Whenever I am working with someone I know and trust I ask them for a quick trim . |
| 3 | You want me to put them in the bag ? |
| 4 | And I must have been in a really funny mood , and I said yes we have it 's on the till and he went well I suggest you get them in the windows then ! |
| 5 | There is a North Region branch of the British Agency for Adoption and Fostering in your area , and I suggest you contact them in the first instance . |
| 6 | Now look at that I want you to see them in the bath , they enjoy themselves like children . |
| 7 | He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day . |
| 8 | But surprising the people that you do n't realise , you know , it troubles the parents and as I say they took them to a number of specialists and given different things |
| 9 | As mentioned earlier , it is possible to treat certain phobias ( although not all ) by hypnosis without ever having to discover what caused them in the first place , and for some patients this is all they require . |
| 10 | The banks want us to pay them for the privilege of making their money from our money . |
| 11 | I I like writing them writing them on the nodes like that . |
| 12 | We can stage a little comedy for ourselves if we pick out two expressions that I used in my last paragraph , and imagine ourselves presenting them to the startled and unwelcoming gaze of Max Beerbohm . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll send somebody to fetch 'em in the mornin' . |
| 15 | Judging from your usual acerbic frame of mind , I imagine you flushed them down the sink long ago . ’ |
| 16 | so I told him to keep them on the back of that door . |
| 17 | Hashim Ciftci told the Today newspaper that he shot cameraman Nick della Casa and his assistant Charles Maxwell after they hired him to guide them on an expedition to film fighting between the Iraqi army and Kurdish rebels in the mountains of northern Iraq . |
| 18 | Give Durkin all the facts and let him publish them in the Eye-Witness . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't think she puts them in the car |
| 20 | So and i I mean you read them in a they 're marked within five to ten minutes , yeah ? |
| 21 | Would you like me to show them to the prosecuting solicitor ? |
| 22 | And handed them handed them to the people . |
| 23 | they 'll just er stick them put them in a box and sling them you see |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sure what I say is quite unnecessary — but they might , you know , sympathetic looks and so on — I 'd like you to keep them at a distance . ’ |
| 25 | I 'd often watched her carrying them from the pile outside , spreading them out , fluffing them up . |
| 26 | One or two of the gentle , giant horses snorted in fear , but they allowed her to lead them to the safety of the barn , while Seb was struggling to maintain control of the hunters . |
| 27 | Far from being taken back , they were delighted by our sudden arrival , and unhesitatingly encouraged us to join them in the water . |
| 28 | However , the two sisters telephoned Airdrie police station after friends in the Monklands area contacted them to tell them of the latest developments in the case . |
| 29 | Once the fry hatched I moved them into a tank of their own . |
| 30 | you know you see them on the telly , do n't you , housewife with er |