Example sentences of "[subord] we [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we know them in the UK as mushroom corals , the common name of this species is something of a misnomer . |
| 2 | We both talk of love but those two were smarter than we took them for . |
| 3 | ‘ Games come earlier than we want them to , other times not quickly enough ! ’ |
| 4 | We decided we did n't really like a lot of our clothes , so we replaced them with a few very simple things . ’ |
| 5 | We knew the German signals for the night , so we tricked them into holding fire until we were about a mile out , then all hell broke loose . |
| 6 | However , we do want to get rid of they ( otherwise the house soon gets full of unsold turnery ! ) , so we price them by our own standards — which may well include a look at what the competition is charging and the ‘ finger in the wind ’ which Hugh decries . |
| 7 | Our horses had more sense and refused to go further so we stabled them at a local inn where we satisfied our hunger on a dish of fish cooked over charcoal before making our way up to the castle . |
| 8 | One cultural tendency feminists must be critical of , and ultimately indeed try to eliminate , is the tendency to impose the categories ‘ masculine ’ and ‘ feminine ’ on every aspect of life , so we see them as natural categories instead of what they are , restrictive and unequal constructs . |
| 9 | The numbers are unbelievable until we see them for ourselves . |
| 10 | Their faces are often distorted into gargoyle shapes that appear hideous to us until we see them for what they are , exquisitely fashioned instruments for beaming ultrasound in desired directions . |
| 11 | Beforehand they were tense and quiet , and no doubt very frightened if the truth were known , but on their return , if we saw them at all , they would be relaxed and only looking forward to bacon and eggs in the Mess — and then bed . |
| 12 | He thinks that we will never deal intelligently with these questions if we confuse them with questions about what is good in itself . |
| 13 | ‘ Not if we challenge them in their own sphere . ’ |
| 14 | But if we keep them for the next ten years they 're a a real bargain , if , if , if |
| 15 | Well if we get them into threes |
| 16 | Or if we tell them about anything dangerous so they can get it before it gets their precious settlements . |
| 17 | If we wish them to be strong we should bring the notes close together . |
| 18 | It 's what we used to do if we took them off a line and got them cleaning up , it 's a token tow pound ten a day . |
| 19 | The road , such as it was , had come to an end and the last twelve miles to our destination were strictly four-wheel drive through yard-deep mud , and over streams alarmingly bridged with thick bamboo trunks simply laid next to each other , so that they separated between our wheels if we took them at anything less than a rush . |
| 20 | Only if we put them into their context in the larger narrative , can we see what is going on and feel their full force . |
| 21 | If we put them in little bags I think there 's some more in the grass outside . |
| 22 | Most horses can be highly motivated to do what we want if we reward them with some favourite food . |
| 23 | What is important is the discovery that saying these things can actually make us feel better , but only if we say them with sincerity . |
| 24 | Similarly , if we force them to outwardly behave like us , ignoring the fact that their inner mind still sees things quite differently , then we are living in a fool 's paradise . |
| 25 | George Watson , responding to this proposal , asserted that such topics were inappropriate for a course leading to a degree called " English " , and in any case dismissed both marxism and structuralism as outmoded " intellectual dinosaurs " : " No doubt a university is the place to study discredited intellectual systems ; but we risk derision if we propose them to the exclusion of others . " |
| 26 | How many of the popular novels of the past evoke derision rather than appreciation if we read them in too literal a spirit ! |
| 27 | The various types of radiation have different wavelengths ; if we consider them in terms of increasing or decreasing wavelength , the types of radiation blend gradually from one to the next . |
| 28 | ‘ So they thought that a lot of the people who could n't go to Knebworth would maybe come to the shows if we did them in London — Earls Court and places like that . |
| 29 | We wanted to avoid all the delays that creep in if we hack them by hi-speed Busby post to Dover , put them on board a ponderous Sealink ferry and eventually consign them to the decidedly risky hands of some unknown foreign postman in the forlorn hope that they-might , with luck and a following wind , reach the Antipodes before the turn of the century . |
| 30 | If we replace them by , instead of those we 're just going to have one resistor . |