Example sentences of "i [verb] they [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I took them to the dry cleaner 's this afternoon . ’ |
| 32 | And as part of the deal , I had some petty cash with which to buy them all sandwiches and coffee so they could get changed or dressed while they ate and I took them to the next job if they had one , or wherever they wanted to go . |
| 33 | I respect them for the medieval certainty of their beliefs and for the casuistical cunning of their arguments . |
| 34 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
| 35 | Could I put them in the soft box ? |
| 36 | One by one I toss them into the slow current about eight feet from the roots . |
| 37 | I LIKE The Cult , I admire them for the sheer daftness of their post- ‘ Electric ’ output — all gung-ho riffing and ludicrous lyrical conceits — and even found much to savour in the absurdly ambitious ‘ Sonic Temple ’ , where they attempted to sound like all their favourite bands all the way through each song , but ‘ Ceremony ’ is an extremely dull affair . |
| 38 | Gradually these dreams came less often until they stopped altogether , although I still do n't know why I had them in the first place . |
| 39 | Much as I regard them as a social nuisance on a par with the Orange Walk and invented by the devil to prevent churchgoers getting to church on time , I can not claim that marathons have ( yet ) been proved to kill enough people to justify banning them . |
| 40 | ‘ I do n't regard Jews as a class , ’ he snapped back at his questioner , ‘ I regard them as a privileged misfortune . ’ |
| 41 | I left them in the self-induced bedlam of a Harvey Nichols changing room , and promised to meet them later at the flat to examine our spoils , then went to meet Dee . |
| 42 | These are n't my lecture notes they I cribbed them off the social psychologist and made copies last night . |
| 43 | I take them to a certain stage , but I tend to find finishing a painting much more difficult than starting it , so I 'll leave it to one side , maybe for a week or more , where I can see it , and as I pass it suddenly something will click . |
| 44 | If I run after the goals which I see everyone around me running after , I reduce them to no more than means to the well-being of feeling at one with the many . |
| 45 | I mean every week I supplied them with a new stack of everybody wanted them . |
| 46 | ‘ Sorry , but I really , truly can not help you now , ’ I say , just before I dispatch them on a current running down towards St Malo . |
| 47 | Would you like me to show them to the prosecuting solicitor ? |