Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] these [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Falteringly , I sought to express these misgivings in my conclusions to a number of papers , conclusions that certainly brought no joy to my more optimistic colleagues in an emerging human ethology rooted firmly in the objective analysis of behaviour sequences and components . |
| 2 | Erm , so Jan had these butties , she said oh I made them lovingly last night , tuna , mayonnaise and onion and er she said trust Viv to ring today like when I 'd made these butties ! |
| 3 | I 'd got these figures down , but I had n't really got anything against them , he just quickly went through the percentages so yes . |
| 4 | Er , what 's it 's I was still on traction you see , and last week when I went I thought I 'd got these hives . |
| 5 | I did n't even know I had any kind of title until I went to prep school when I started to get these letters saying : ‘ The Honourable Charles ’ . |
| 6 | Somehow or other I managed to learn these lessons , becoming anxious to please and to be praised for having pleased . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , ‘ I kept getting these phone-calls . ’ |
| 8 | When I was chided by someone for seeming oblivious of ‘ the magnitude of the accounting operation ’ I said that it was because of my consciousness of the magnitude of all other operations that I dared to make these demands of Mr Whalley , who perfectly understands in any case . |
| 9 | You know and that 's gone and I said feel these beds I said . |
| 10 | Everything had a value , I had to do these jobs round the house , bring in the logs , clean the car . |
| 11 | As an urban creature I had dubbed these conditions ‘ inconvenient ’ and ‘ primitive ’ . |
| 12 | That 's when I had to put these things onto dea er put death certificates into th their the doctor 's certificate into English , erm they were pretty good , t others were n't so g , er you know , were n't so good . |
| 13 | Once I had written these letters , I then applied to the Department that was officially responsible for serving the Diplomatic Corps . |
| 14 | I had seen these birds before in Shetland , but only in winter plumage on migration , and here they were , obviously on their home territory . |
| 15 | I had seen these images of John before , but then came a video report from Danish TV back in 1981 . |
| 16 | And they used to catch pheasants and er I had to clean I had to pluck these pheasants and er birds and get them ready and ready for them to put in the oven . |
| 17 | I had chosen these subjects specifically because I knew nothing about any of the four disciplines and because , having studied foreign languages at A Level , it seemed natural to develop my linguistic skills . |
| 18 | Like on MTV I had to read these lines , but because I ca n't read that well I could n't do it — you know , like dyslexia or something . |
| 19 | Like on MTV I had to read these lines , but because I ca n't read that well I could n't do it — you know , like dyslexia or something . |
| 20 | With the influence of my older brother and his wife ( he was active in the International Socialists and she was a raving feminist ) I continued to challenge these expectations of my future career . |
| 21 | I wanted to write these lines in the newsletter as I wanted to say a general Thank you to the NCT and to individuals too . |
| 22 | I wanted to help these women to ‘ find a voice ’ and no longer to place their needs at the bottom of the list of priorities . |
| 23 | I wanted to fight these monsters . |
| 24 | Imported products which failed to meet these standards could be subjected to extra duties providing that : the environmental standards had a scientific base ; the same standards must be applied to all competitive domestic production ; and imported products could be proved to be causing economic damage to competitive domestic industries . |
| 25 | Although the surprise which seemed to greet these changes now seems misplaced , they represented significant alterations in the way heads and others were to manage education . |
| 26 | An architecture which seemed to fulfill these requirements was the Chart parsing system ( Thompson and Ritchie 1984 ) . |
| 27 | When substances were discovered which did block these actions a second histamine receptor was postulated and the search began for clinically acceptable drugs . |
| 28 | This represented a return to the financial dependency on a parent which had characterised these carers ' younger , pre-adult days : |
| 29 | Only in the light of the traditions of the Church , which had preserved these writings and formed a Canon of orthodox books in deciding which writings should be included in the Bible , could the meaning of the text be properly assigned . |
| 30 | What mattered to Marx and Engels was therefore not so much the specific history which had produced these concepts , but the fact that they had a history at all , that the concepts were dependent on the type of society and economy in which they occurred . |