Example sentences of "them [adv prt] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael , I 've had to work very , very exact my lad and these things I 'd got the sliding gages and put them on and they 'd been the same at the front as they have at the back and that 's the thickness as well . |
| 2 | or they turn up at the gates and go shit Mr like the headmaster 's on the door and my nipples are in and they go hang on I 've got some ice cubes here , put them on and they come out and er they go by the nipples , your nipples are looking good today . |
| 3 | We hurry them on when they want to stop and look at some new marvel . |
| 4 | ‘ Good grief — you 're refusing to put them on if they do ? |
| 5 | Housewives were told to hand them in after they had been used in the stock pot and fed to the dog , after , after which the bones were to be washed and dried in the oven after the gas and electricity had been turned off . |
| 6 | Yeah it says , I read the thing and it says I have n't got ta let them in unless they 've got a warrant so the first time they come they would n't have a warrant , surely , so they 're gon na have to go away and get a warrant and in that time then I 'd have to get a licence would n't I ? |
| 7 | He 'd brought home some hairs from the cross on the back of a donkey when she was cutting her teeth , and Ma had made a little black silk bag to put them in so they could hang round her neck to keep the funny turns away . |
| 8 | But the money gets nicked , so the one who 's married , she goes and robs erm a store and then , they , the policeman pulls them over and wants to take them in so they lock him in his boot . |
| 9 | We had two statements before us : Teddy Mayer 's of McLaren , who had asserted that drivers were ‘ just interchangeable light bulbs : you plug them in and they do the job ’ and Bernard Ecclestone 's classic , ‘ no driver is worth more than $25,000 ‘ . |
| 10 | If it 's diagnosed as erm leaving treatment there 's a variety of splints that frames that you lie the baby on , strap them in and they remain in that position with their legs |
| 11 | Bring them in and they want to change things . |
| 12 | And they entertained us and then some carol singers came and we asked them in and they sang carols and the food was nice and everybody really was very happy and that was the start of our Christmas holiday . |
| 13 | Yes , is n't , those are for my mother 's day bouquets and I just stick them in and they just come out in the vase . |
| 14 | And although women were n't provided — it was n't a brothel or anything — you could bring them in if they were good fun , and if they stayed over , a blind eye was turned . |
| 15 | Francis used to imitate the Abaconian speech , dropping aitches from where they belonged , slipping them in where they did not . |
| 16 | Er I met them in when they were on holiday and that 's how I got in . |
| 17 | I bet you feel like a now , give them in when they ca n't truss them du n no . |
| 18 | We give them in when they came trussed with the though we had before . |
| 19 | A boathook reached out and latched on to the ship 's side , and a small , dark-haired crewgirl pulled them in until they touched with a gentle bump . |
| 20 | Initially this new German ‘ victory ’ weapon proved unnerving but before long it became possible for the ‘ V1s ’ to be intercepted by fighter aircraft over the sea , although their speed was a problem , but by moving the bulk of the anti-aircraft artillery units to the Isle of Wight and along the southern coastline of England , it was possible to shoot them down before they reached the London area . |
| 21 | They could see no reason why he would turn them down and they 're setting the paperwork in motion to put |
| 22 | to walk round the bread shelves twice and they were right on the bottom shelf when I eventually tracked them down and they had the hot cross buns on the shelves . |
| 23 | I have to track them down cos they put them in obscure places sometimes , but there are conference notice boards . |
| 24 | Do n't put them down cos they go they do n't like |
| 25 | They stared in surprise and she said in a tired voice , ‘ Oh it does n't matter , I suppose , not the old skull , but he 's run me ragged just lately , picking up things round the house and putting them down where they should n't be . |
| 26 | A PENSIONER took revenge on two carjackers by ramming their car and then trying to mow one of them down as they fled in terror . |
| 27 | The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched . |
| 28 | See they ai n't got the concrete roads down to put them down when they bought the farm off Sam years later . |
| 29 | Again , you can still quote them if you wish — it 's the employer 's job to track them down if they want a reference . |
| 30 | They made sure children got safely on to the chairlift and picked them up and dusted them down if they fell . |