Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They asked me to follow them without any explanation and blindfolded me . |
| 2 | As some of the other legionnaires could n't write very well , they asked me to help them with their letters . |
| 3 | Sid helped me carry them to that table ready for serving . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | so , she thinks like they were , they were on show these just for a wardrobe and a set of drawers for a thousand quid , he let her have them for six hundred , so she 's been and paid a deposit on them |
| 6 | I believed I put them to good use against Pakistan . |
| 7 | so I told him to keep them on the back of that door . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And handed them handed them to the people . |
| 10 | His herd numbered up to 200 head , including working bullocks used on the estates until local prejudice combined with shoeing difficulties encouraged him to abandon them for working horses . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They begged him to let them off this time , but he rang back hour after hour , day , after day : " Sell your car . |
| 13 | Far from being taken back , they were delighted by our sudden arrival , and unhesitatingly encouraged us to join them in the water . |
| 14 | And there were those men who encouraged us to reprimand them for sexist thoughts and deeds . |
| 15 | His screams were so terrible that none who ever heard them forgot them till their dying day . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Once the fry hatched I moved them into a tank of their own . |
| 18 | But Fenella seemed to have caught the Gruagach 's interest fairly and squarely ; Caspar , only partly listening , heard her telling them about another life , another world , where people had fled in panic from the Feargach Grian many centuries earlier and how the Feargach Grian had , on that occasion , appeared in one of its truly terrible aspects . |
| 19 | Several fellow players asked her to take them for a ride as pillion passengers but that treat seemed to be reserved for members of her regular entourage , though I suppose it could be argued she took Steffi Graf for a ride in the semi-finals . |
| 20 | Presumably they imagined their confidences led him to regard them with disgust or pity or contempt . |
| 21 | When Nigel was at home , Gina usually made him take them to the Launderette in a black dust bag . |
| 22 | In Gregory 's account , Chlodomer , before setting off to Vézeronce , asked his half-brother , Theuderic , to accompany him , and the latter agreed ; but when Childebert and Chlothar asked him to join them at the time of their later campaign against the Burgundian kingdom , he refused . |
| 23 | The importers were n't reliable , and neither were the craftsmen , especially those who persuaded me to pay them in advance Then I got in a financial muddle because I did n't keep my bookkeeping up to date . ’ |
| 24 | Some of the neighbours knew about my interest in birds , but they thought I kept them in cages . |
| 25 | I think the alum actually was so because this recipe enabled you to paint them with flowers if you wanted to . |
| 26 | He thought he had them with him in the coach when going to the College , but did not see them again . |
| 27 | They chose us to provide them with the most reliable data network available . |
| 28 | ‘ What did you tell them at the paperworks ? ’ |
| 29 | Did you intend them as a short-term loan , retrievable when your contract with Sarella was over , or was it more in the line of outright theft ? |
| 30 | Did you drop them on the floor ? |