Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [adv] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , although I did not believe them for a moment , I stored them away in my memory against a rainy day . |
| 2 | I used to wear clear glass spectacles , although I did n't need them . ’ |
| 3 | She 'd also written two or three books of poetry , although I did n't see them . |
| 4 | Sometimes I still pick up the guitar for ideas , but I find that I end up finishing them on piano . ’ |
| 5 | But it annoyed me that I had not got them worked out already . |
| 6 | I am childless ; but the Jews are my children and I love them as a parent should , which is to say that I do n't love them for their qualities ( remarkable as these seem to me to be , naturally ) , and only wish them to exist , and to flourish , and to have their right to life and love . |
| 7 | and to deal with problems of substance abuse , unemployment , illiteracy , rather than things which are fashionable and to my mind highly like opera and the ballet which is n't to say that I do n't love them both , but I think that you have to have a sense of complete reality about the social issues . |
| 8 | But I would feel a bit snidey pretending that I do n't know them . ’ |
| 9 | I have to say that I did n't see them in their homes prior to their being admitted at all . |
| 10 | ‘ On that particular day , we arrived there about ten o'clock , and I refused at first to go any farther ; the charm of those gardens and their flowers was so great that I wanted never to leave them . |
| 11 | ‘ The reason the police have n't come to question you is that I have n't told them about my suspicions . ’ |
| 12 | The air of the moors , the freedom of home , and the beginning of independence made Diana and Mary happier than I had ever seen them . |
| 13 | It must be admitted that to a certain extent I am presenting a caricature of the Shavante , if for no other reason than I do not know them as well as the Piaroa . |
| 14 | The window frames look rather nice with broken colour — shade and sun — so I do n't have them as solid pieces of wood |
| 15 | And I 'd only done them ten minutes before |
| 16 | Ah and I 've not brought them with me , they 're in my office , sorry . |
| 17 | They 're too fucking old man , the commi you 've got all this down and I 've just slagged them off . |
| 18 | My gut reaction has always been against the placing of bolts , and I 've never used them . |
| 19 | I ai n't got no best pans , I 've had my pa most of my pans , they 've all near enough come from either Embassy cigarette coupons or Number Six coupons , and I 've still got them and I 've had some of them twenty bloody years , all them pans . |
| 20 | I 've always owned bitches and I 've always had them done . |
| 21 | And indeed I can still remember that strange whispered singing , all those men singing , I can remember it , and I can remember every single one of those words even now , and I 've often quoted them to myself when I 've needed to . |
| 22 | I listen to their stories , and I know when to let them sleep in the shade . ’ |
| 23 | My educational colleagues are a hard-bitten lot and I had not expected them to come out as complete ‘ quality ’ converts . |
| 24 | At the time I told myself that I would take a train to Perpignan and from there explore the more accessible small seaside places just because they sounded nice and quiet and I had n't seen them before . |
| 25 | My cassettes had been removed from the rack separating the front seats during a half-hearted attempt at car valeting , and I had n't replaced them . |
| 26 | When I came over here , I knew what the LH and the Grand Cherokee were , but they had not been introduced and I had n't driven them . |
| 27 | And erm and I made the point that I tipped all your lot out of I said what and I had n't let them go in the classroom and I said it 's a new thing but I said they got their coats on they 're too macho to wear them that 's their problem , you know ! |
| 28 | At that time they were unobtainable in Greece , and I had never used them before . |
| 29 | The crowd of playgoers began to hurry to the doors , and I ran round to open them . |
| 30 | And I went on buying them , three pairs a year . |