Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then wasps ; a cloud of them hovered around my Virginia creeper where I suspected they had a nest . |
| 2 | If I 'm going anywhere where I want them to see me as a ‘ teacher ’ you know with all that that implies , then I 'll wear my wedding ring . |
| 3 | Or I believe they have got some quieter ones now . |
| 4 | And they wo n't give any guarantees , although I understand they have n't failed up to now . |
| 5 | No-one said much to me at tea , although I caught them looking at me sometimes as they sipped at their mugs . |
| 6 | It was n't till years later that I realised they had n't even remembered to ask if f was a lesbian . |
| 7 | Put against the letters that I wrote they 've all been sent out . |
| 8 | ‘ I said I was subject to them , not that I let them rule me ! ’ |
| 9 | My first impression of the JMU was that I hope they do n't visit us , ’ admitted Robert Dicketts , South Eastern Society of Chartered Accountants president and partner of Sevenoaks-based Lee Dicketts & Co . |
| 10 | What what we must n't do with Honey and Munnford is just take things at face value because what Honey and Munnford did is they actually carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they decided that I mean they carried out interviews with er lots of people thousand and they had a general study where they carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they said was that in particular with the reflector a l some , some scores are naturally higher than others and that what we ca n't do is just sort of look at these and say well this is the highest score , therefore I 'm much more of a , of a reflector than I have of , I am of the other three , all we actually need to do is compare our scores against the general norms . |
| 11 | They must have wrecked the car to make sure that I understood they meant business . ’ |
| 12 | In the same way , we can point to every single course _there have been people who are highly qualified , excellent youngsters — and that is where I fear that the universities are not always given the opportunity to get these talented children in the numbers that I think they deserve . |
| 13 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 14 | I assure the House that , in all the speeches that I have made at police meetings and conferences this year , I have repeatedly stressed to the police that I want them to give this type of crime high priority . |
| 15 | When I saw the pictures , I could n't deny that I found them arousing . |
| 16 | ‘ Not that I wanted them to go , ’ she said . |
| 17 | I viewed A&R men the same way and when I met them I realised that they knew even less than I thought they knew . |
| 18 | And that 's moved them no less than three places up the second division table , they 're higher than I think they 've been for many a long day . |
| 19 | Erm , she died quicker than I think they expected actually , she had cancer of the liver , so I 'm glad she did n't suffer any longer . |
| 20 | ‘ There are no provisions for new ideas , so I keep them posted in my office until I need them , ’ he said . |
| 21 | I was jealous and confused , so I let them twist me up — distort everything . |
| 22 | I did n't want to but I was frightened they would think it was true , so I let them do it . |
| 23 | The orchestra was not playing it in time , so I made them rehearse it at a slower tempo . |
| 24 | One of the kids asked about the foal and it suddenly occurred to me they 'd like to see all the mares , so I had them brought inside specially for visitors ' day . " |
| 25 | Soon it was just clumps and permanently itchy so I asked them to shave it off . |
| 26 | I present five extracts from the college 's aims to give a flavour of our determined commitments , but we recognise that anyone can write rhetoric , so I hope they do not engender cynicism : |
| 27 | The difficulty is I am not an employee of yours , so I hope they accept it . |
| 28 | The Beeb were obviously suffering withdrawal symptoms as Scum were nt on Manc of the Day — So I reckon they arranged a ‘ sportsnight ’ specially last night . |
| 29 | As it turned out , the studio ‘ was n't up to much any more and half the equipment was broken ’ , but , according to Mondays ' manager Nathan McGough , ‘ a little light went on as soon as I met Chris and Tina , so I phoned them to ask what they thought of the band and what they had planned for the next couple of months ’ . |
| 30 | A couple of months later he did come to the Hammersmith Odeon with Bernie and me to see them play I could seethe relief on his face when he realised they really were a band . |