Example sentences of "[vb past] them [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it . |
| 2 | Through a string of three rooms they came close to the Ballroom ; only an ante-room divided them from it . |
| 3 | When I asked them about it they all said : ‘ Oh , you 've had cats all your life , you wo n't get it ’ ’ . |
| 4 | When I asked them about it later , they said , oh no , we have no intention of doing Anthems of the Nations , perhaps you would like to do it for us . |
| 5 | Cos I asked them about it , and they said I 'd much rather be doing that . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ We will do it to express our derision for this Treasury bench of limpets , clinging on to office after breaking every promise that got them into it . |
| 7 | But the thief beat them to it . |
| 8 | As time goes on the need for such support will , obviously , diminish — it 's more than likely that your staff will become more conversant with the product than the person who either sold or trained them on it . |
| 9 | In order that the CAA and AAIB can decide on appropriate action , they need to know whether anyone else has had a similar failure or found signs of overheating on one of these units and not told them about it . |
| 10 | I phoned up the bobbies , told them about it , and the bobbies the is n't a lot much they could do . |
| 11 | She put an arm across her eyes and opened them beneath it , seeing him in such a way that he could never be certain whether she had looked or not , naked and hairy and black as she might have imagined , thick-set and arrogant and very ready — that much at least was certain — to take her without any further preamble . |
| 12 | They must have constantly wondered whether they would ever return to the world outside the moat that separated them from it , a moat that also served as a sewer . |
| 13 | Paid them for it yet ? |
| 14 | Although this was no fault of theirs you hated them for it . |
| 15 | His nan 's abhorrence of the neighbourhood toms was legendary , and her punishment merciless when she heard them at it , raw-arsed and rampant , in the nightly flesh pit of the back yard . |
| 16 | I talked them into it because at first they were scared , one because they thought they 'd get docked for it — but they said we could have half a day off for it and not get docked — and also because they thought Ros and Maureen were going to be looking down on them , " Oh , you 're only young girls ' , things like that . |
| 17 | Men , women , and all except the smallest children , were on their hands and knees , busily washing every inch of the deck , supervised by the third mate and half a dozen rough-looking sailors , who kept them at it every second . |
| 18 | The accordion kept them at it , energetic , sweet . |
| 19 | A powerful 25-yard shot by Brown gave Bolton a justly deserved lead but Shearer 's fine header robbed them of it almost immediately . |
| 20 | Inevitably , world record try scorer David Campese , who teased the Irish about their style before the game , tormented them during it , scoring number 51 to spark a massacre . |
| 21 | When there were no Red Cross parcels at all you began to notice that people sized up the rations of margarine before they helped themselves , and though you despised them for it you were none the less sharp to do it yourself . |
| 22 | I liked the idea of other people feeling sorry for me , even though I also despised them for it , because I was n't worth their sympathy and that made them fools . |
| 23 | By entering the forest she and Allen had launched themselves into a stream of events that carried them with it . |
| 24 | McLeish left them to it and walked away to consider exactly where he was . |
| 25 | I left them to it and went up into my tree-house . |
| 26 | Eventually I left them to it and went off into the night , the bells keeping me company through the streets . |
| 27 | In the last ten years of her life , her two teenage sons bore the brunt of her bitter and depressed spirit , while their father turned to the bottle and left them to it . |
| 28 | I told them I was late , picked up the shafts and left them to it . |
| 29 | I left them to it and made my way along the inner side of the curving wall towards the doorway . |
| 30 | I called out : ‘ I 'm going over to look at the birds , ’ and left them to it . |