Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [noun] [prep] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not a bit , it 's just that I do n't tell anything , you see , and the Community likes that , they feel I 'm part of them . |
| 2 | ‘ I could understand it with the men , who thought I was coming-on to them , but the women 's reluctance puzzled me , until I discovered that the City people discouraged the country dwellers ( she objects to the word ‘ peasant ’ ) from having their picture taken . |
| 3 | ‘ I could understand it with the men , who thought I was coming-on to them , but the women 's reluctance puzzled me , until I discovered that the City people discouraged the country dwellers ( she objects to the word ‘ peasant ’ ) from having their picture taken . |
| 4 | Much of the time the principal performers were not even aware of what we were doing for them . |
| 5 | It 's like this film I seen about these penguins — you know , how they all lived together on this island , and they was loads of them , all jammed together . |
| 6 | I 'm an old hand at Falcon Sailing — it 's thanks to them I know that a holding tank 's nothing to do with the Russians in Prague . |
| 7 | Of course then it 's shame for them . |
| 8 | The they 're never sort of given feeble excuses , we are erm very truthful with them , i in order to make them understand that , you know , there are limitations erm within our jobs as well , cos a lot of people expect things , and erm you may promise them , well other people may promise them , and it 's not delivered then of course it 's sort of them and us , and we , we try to dispel that idea , it 's not them |
| 9 | China is using every negotiating device , and it is master of them all , to carve out as big a place for itself as it can in pre-1997 Hong Kong . |
| 10 | Every house had one or two people who were over forty-five and it was misery for them . |
| 11 | Course , it was horses in them days , not motorcars . |
| 12 | Yeah , yeah was kind , it was kind of them , yes and we went all round the shops and er I thoroughly enjoyed it and in the new Co-Op as well you know , I thoroughly enjoyed it but he took me in the car so that we did n't have to hang about you see |
| 13 | It was thanks to them that he learned that the hunt was on for a leak on the Washington embassy wartime staff which could only have been Maclean . |
| 14 | And my poor mam you know , she used to scrub her hands with erm it was n't Dettol it was Lysol in them days was n't it what they used to use . |
| 15 | When it was time for them to go , she rolled up the carpet full of soil and put it in her bedroom . |
| 16 | It was time for them to put their houses in order , ‘ and for the Home Secretary to insist they do ’ . |
| 17 | When Loc , with another worried glance in Jacques Devraux 's direction , insisted it was time for them to go to bed , Paul galloped across the clearing with little Hoc on his shoulders and dumped the boy squealing with laughter on his sleeping mat . |
| 18 | When Iris announced that it was time for them to return , Jack insisted on walking them back . |
| 19 | By Sunday evening , when it was time for them to leave and the three of them were piling into the Bentley , what she felt inside her , by any definition , was far more than simply sexual excitement . |
| 20 | Exactly , but also it was food for them . |
| 21 | And in the Football Post er cos everybody used to have the Football Post then , not like now , and so everybody knew what was in it and er there was like a Who and Why column in the Football Post and one of these was , Who will stop County now , you see because they was at top of the second division or something like that , and the team that was next to them was City in them days you see . |