Example sentences of "[conj] we [verb] them " in BNC.
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1 | I bought a French team shirt , and wore it at the Liverpool game where we stuffed them 2–2 . |
2 | The contras surged into several of the village streets , where we heard them shouting defiant angry slogans ( ‘ We do n't want your amnesty ! ’ ) . |
3 | We take our chances where we find them . |
4 | Next we visited a grain processing mill , a hospital where they proudly displayed their own X-ray machine , a chicken-incubating factory , and a fish farm , where we watched them ingeniously catching fish with an enormous net stretched right across the fish-pool . |
5 | Or we cuffed them under their chin — and after about half a dozen times , they never stopped there again . |
6 | ‘ Either we terrorise them into submission , or we abandon them to the vacuum of a permissive existence . |
7 | You know , I mean we revert a lot of trade here to next day , so the quality of service has got to be good or we lose them . |
8 | Although we know them in the UK as mushroom corals , the common name of this species is something of a misnomer . |
9 | Sadly , we fell behind early on and never really threatened them after that , although we chased them all the way . |
10 | And first of all before we er we put the reports we , there are a number of er , there 's one alteration and a number of er , additions obviously alteration or I should say a a an amendment is something an important place on page fifteen er , at the tope of the page referring to December nineteen ninety two I 've put , which is agreed by GP committee with the exception of young these representatives , that we ask them to bring thirty pounds towards the cost that should be twenty five . |
11 | United will by extra-motivated by the fact that we knocked them out of the Coca-Cola Cup , and Robbo 's return . |
12 | After all , if those two boys had died , it would have been on our consciences that we saw them get into difficulty and did nothing . |
13 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
14 | Well only just to really , actually all Mr Mr has er said , and just one other bit of information , the time when the Chairman of the council extended the invitation to sixth formers , looking for alternative entertainment for the sixth formers of school , after they sat through a full council , I took them over to the er archivists er department , and we saw the paper restor , sorry , should n't say paper restorer , manuscript restorer at work , and these sixth formers , already knew of the existence , one of them asked to see the records of parish , because he knew they were there , and I mean , I think this is wonderful , that the sixth formers already , er children are being taught about the ar the records , and they will want to be sure that we kept them , and I think it 's our moral duty to keep er , the records of the past for future generations . |
15 | And now this spineless crowd of chancers demands that we back them against Lamont 's minions [ and their threatened imposition of VAT on books ] because of their contributions to knowledge . ’ |
16 | And er some of the schemes have been criticized but it was a blessing in a way that we got them done when we did and er we were able to house a lot of people out there and release ground in the centre of the town to be redeveloped and er brought up to modern standards . |
17 | Our lawyers and judges will never turn off this mad process which , for them , is a fountain of dollars and a source of power : it is up to the Press to publicise civilised European libel procedures and insist that we get them too . |
18 | It is precisely because costs are passed on to third parties that we let them occur . |
19 | She said that their body temperature is such and such a million times lower than ours is and that we burn them , literally burn them , if we touch them . |
20 | They are obliged to believe all that we tell them ’ . |
21 | The one thing about advertising er Patrick is that we tell them everything on the phone . |
22 | Also that we have the opportunities to witness and that we take them up . |
23 | I suggest that we take them not only seriously but literally , since they represent the very root of the relationship around which the Sonnets are structured . |
24 | There is surely no doubt that we take them to involve the necessity relations and the relations of requiredness . |
25 | One thing said in support of the idea that we take effects to be probable events , and , more particularly , said against the analysis expounded in this chapter that we take them to be necessitated events , is relevant enough , although likely to be disdained by the high-minded . |
26 | " Perhaps it is our fault that we keep them so much in idleness ? |
27 | ‘ We are putting a lot of money into these core plants to improve their efficiency and reduce variable costs , ’ Ewart emphasizes , ‘ It is vital that we keep them in good shape . ’ |
28 | With regard to the three representatives , can I propose from the Chair that we split them very conveniently , one Liberal , one Labour , and one Conservative . |
29 | Hunter , Joyce , and Redruth were told what was happening , and were less surprised that we expected them to be . |
30 | ‘ Some needed reminding that we expected them to honour their word . ’ |