Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no one has responsibility for seeing they get them |
| 2 | A BUNGLING shoplifter tried to flog a pair of Marks and Spencer shorts — to the store detective who had followed him into the street after seeing him nick them . |
| 3 | We do n't ask or even think of asking what justifies them . |
| 4 | They live in their own tribes and have their own ways of fighting which make them easily distinguishable . |
| 5 | This punctuation would have made some difference to the reader 's processing of the sentence ; [ 14 ] in particular would have made the " click " seem a matter of importance and surprise in its own right , dividing the reader 's attention between the two events , instead of making him see them as integral parts of a whole . |
| 6 | And he said I got ta see him pick them ! |
| 7 | Well , it 's all very well saying you 're gon na recycle things , you 've got ta have something to keep them in . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Some actors succeeded in getting everyone to hate them . |
| 10 | He too was small , and inclined to be timid , and Hazel and Fiver had spent the greater part of their last evening in the warren in persuading him to join them . |
| 11 | They were chilling words and he resented them because he felt prohibited from asking her to explain them . |
| 12 | Frau Hoflin took one look at her and refrained from asking her to pick them up and put them in the washing machine . |
| 13 | I knew there was n't any point in asking him to return them at this stage . |
| 14 | Later , when Frankie and Liza , my brother and sister , came in from playing I told them the sad news , but they did n't seem very upset . |
| 15 | Above all , they have emphasised the need for higher expectations from society as a whole about what disabled people can achieve , and have argued for the necessary resources to be devoted to helping them achieve them . |
| 16 | erm would you have any objection to letting me contact them ? |
| 17 | It 's like knowing things without knowing you know them . ’ |
| 18 | Council tenants also receive an indirect subsidy as a result of the central government grants to local authorities for housing which enable them to set rents below the level that would otherwise have been needed . |
| 19 | I mean , I was gon na let you have them next week , but if you 'd like some to sit down and look at erm I 'll find my things if I can . |
| 20 | For example , capitalists in competition with each other could over-exploit their workforces , ruining workers ' productivity , and by immiserizing them render them incapable of absorbing factory outputs . |