Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [pron] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | It collects these flakes with the brush near the end of its hind legs and passes them forward to its mouth where it kneads them with saliva . |
| 2 | No sooner were the words out of her mouth than she regretted them . |
| 3 | There 's some mints in the glove compartment if you want them , love . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Alex picked up a pair of her earrings and asked : Will Mummy mind if I wear them … |
| 5 | ‘ Alex picked up a pair of earrings Monica had given Rachel for her 21st birthday the other day and said : ‘ Will mummy mind if I wear them ? ’ |
| 6 | There surely are some people in A&R who would n't recognise talent if it hit them squarely between the eyes and others inebriated on their own power . |
| 7 | He hardly knew the people in his own house , only to exchange a casual greeting if he met them going out or coming in . |
| 8 | Bulbs are a good long-term investment if you choose them wisely . |
| 9 | She tugged on her jeans over damp legs , cursing and falling over on to the bed , struggling with the clinging fabric until she had them hitched finally over her hips . |
| 10 | They 're no good cos you leave them laying about and they get lost . |
| 11 | How many of the popular novels of the past evoke derision rather than appreciation if we read them in too literal a spirit ! |
| 12 | If the track is a public right of way , Dave should report the incident to the local highway authority , although some districts and parishes have powers to maintain footpaths and bridleways and to take action if anyone obstructs them . |
| 13 | Until the seventeenth century the courts would declare Acts of Parliament void if they considered them contrary to natural law , repugnant to the law or impossible to be performed . |
| 14 | However , we have chosen to discuss experiments on discourse and experiments on sentence comprehension in a single chapter because we see them as being closely related . |
| 15 | I left right , right , I ran off I jumped out the car because I heard them driving round the corner |
| 16 | I 'm growing them for the wedding , they 'll have to get cut because I break them . |
| 17 | Parents are extremely keen to have their children admitted to the college because they want them to take advantage of the excellent education that it offers . |
| 18 | Her mum came down the street steaming from the chip shop , and she rushed us inside and got me to make a pot of tea while she shared them all out between the three of us , and we all sat round their fire eating them . |
| 19 | If you came in now and asked me for a pound of apples , well in a way I would n't know a stranger whether they like them under-ripe , ripe or just ready for eating . |
| 20 | Leith was about to state , quite forcefully , that she was there to work , not to flirt with every male who chanced his arm , when suddenly she realised that if he knew she had worked for Vasey 's for only a short while then there was a fair chance either someone from Personnel , or Mr Catham , had given him a brief run-down on each employee before he met them . |
| 21 | Sometimes tourists wandered in off Longacre and looked about the hall of this famous British institution before he ushered them out . |
| 22 | Christopher was a slight child , with rather too thin arms and legs , and little flat wrists which always gave Carolyn a stab of apprehensive fear when she noticed them . |
| 23 | We are dedicated to experimentation , to pushing back the frontiers of football as we know them , to boldly go where no self-respecting soccer club has gone before , and no , I do not mean the Whaddon and Mitchley Sunday League . |
| 24 | With this fancy in my mind as I watch them pass , sometimes in that delusive light of Venice those ships seem to blur before me and I see them transmuted into vessels of the past . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's like daylight when you switch them on now , ’ he admits . |
| 26 | ILL-MANNERED Tories booed , hissed and slow-handclapped Brighton 's Labour mayor as she told them the hard facts of life in Major 's Britain . |
| 27 | To assume so would be seriously to underestimate the ability of civil servants to use the rhetoric of Keynesianism when it suited them and to ignore it when it did not . |
| 28 | It may simply be said that what is needed for two events to be cause and effect as we understand them is that the probability of the second , given the first , is higher than the probability of the second , given the absence of the first . |
| 29 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 30 | The Court of Appeal held that he had appropriated the goods for the purposes of theft when he showed them the goods and invited them to buy . |