Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 31 | But this ruse failed , for the education journalists were not interested in the nice distinctions I offered them when they interviewed me on the phone . |
| 32 | These are two young-uns I reckon they lodge up here somewhere . |
| 33 | At the top of the back stairs I made them wait . |
| 34 | Oh they 're diggers I think they 're diggers . |
| 35 | Dock-grubs — leather jackets I think they 're sometimes called — are another fine natural bait . |
| 36 | After I have cut , straightened and sharpened the stakes I put them away to dry out and stiffen — to season — before they are used . |
| 37 | And they called in the School Board man because lots of schools in those days were run by boards or erm governors I suppose they 'd call them today . |
| 38 | Oh yes , er yes they were , they were er of course there was a great divide there I mean between the Liberals I mean they were the only two parties in those days . |
| 39 | Only for a bloke actually it 's pretty easy , but for some of the girls I mean they sometimes has to false herself . |
| 40 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 41 | I mean , forget removals I thought they 'd help out , would n't you ? |
| 42 | If you had two axes I expect they 'd give in right away . ’ |
| 43 | Yes I would agree , would favour that because I think it would force another issue , if , if the independent rule too often against the deferred pensioners I suspect they 'd organise themselves . |
| 44 | The size of the brood was only six fish but as these were my first Cardinal Tetras I treated them as a normal spawning , with partial weekly water changes . |
| 45 | By opportunities for learning that can be at depth , about learning about ourselves , but also the practical things like what do you say to a child whose father 's come back mutilated from war erm how do you write a letter to a bereaved person , and I think children I mean they are capable of doing this , I 've seen it with my own children , with some help they 're able to express quite deep emotions , you know , to somebody who 's had a bereavement , and if they can learn that now , you know , it 's going to be a lot easier later on . |
| 46 | But they 're , I do n't think they 're seconds I think they 're over makes . |
| 47 | the raffles I want they 've got some prizes . |
| 48 | . When two of my sons were little boys I took them to our old great-uncle Lord Albemarle 's yearly reception on Waterloo Day , that they might hereafter be able to say in their old age that they had seen and spoken to someone who had been at the Battle of Waterloo himself . |
| 49 | I mean the Scottish boys I mean they always wanted the big end of the stick you see ? |
| 50 | Certainly with the roses I use them as a love symbol , I used to always use dead and dried roses but now I 've started to use live ones . |
| 51 | The men motioned me to go away , and after they had looked at Jordi 's papers I saw them escort him to a car . |
| 52 | Mmm , maybe , but IF there is any more signings I doubt they will be MAJOR . |
| 53 | On several occasions I saw them and watched them while bombs were falling in the neighbourhood and air raids were overhead and asked them questions relating to war , sirens , etc … |
| 54 | My Dad come in , there 's me running out while my Dad 's by the door in case one of them jumped I 'm so scared of spiders I hate them ! |
| 55 | I do n't call these er interviews I call them discussions because they are self employed positions and er I seem them as a business opportunity rather than a job quote job . |
| 56 | My mother was a woman of great piety and orthodoxy ; and when she allowed me to look into her forest depths I found them good . |