Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I feel so embarrassed and wish I did n't have breasts at all , or I try to hide them with baggy T-shirts . |
| 2 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 3 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 4 | Not that I 'd told them about Chris , but they 'd suspected . |
| 5 | I read both books this year and found them so interesting and closely related , that I decided to use them for my coursework . |
| 6 | Although I 've talked about some of them before there is such a feeling in fashion for double jacquard that I want to suggest them to you again . |
| 7 | I learned Dimac from a lama in Tibet and my hands are so deadly that I have to keep them in a locked closet when they 're not in use . |
| 8 | ‘ I wanted to give them to his wife but she is n't here so I 've given them to him instead , ’ she said . |
| 9 | I used to bring them home and then , well father and me used to slaughter them on the Monday , you see and perhaps a bullock on the Monday and every Wedn every Monday morning the men from the farm , cos he had a farm , you see , used to bring perhaps twenty bullocks up through the street and he used to pick one out to kill , every Monday . |
| 10 | And I 've seen them for years and years , twenty odd more than that years , beautiful , |
| 11 | and I 've mounted them on green germ , but I 'm going to put them on a table , and then hang the germs from the ceiling or something , round , cos I have n't got a board for that . |
| 12 | ‘ This is a young side and I 've known them for four years and watched them mature and get stronger . |
| 13 | I 've got a lot of my favourite garments from them , and I 've had them for years , ’ she says . |
| 14 | No I 'm actually quite surprised at myself I 've got two Clippers and both of them I found and I 've had them for ages . |
| 15 | But if I 'm if kids are giving me work first thing in the morning and I 've got them in the afternoon they 're gon na expect it to be marked ! |
| 16 | and then I had to work with these people and I knew that that was the kind of way that they were operating and I had to teach them by the way I worked but in fact it was okay to admit that we do make mistakes . |
| 17 | ‘ There are least three shops in Norwich I really like , and I tend to ring them in advance and say ‘ I 'm coming in for half an hour . |
| 18 | I got to know the blobs and wiggles in that rough circle that looked like a sample from an oil slick , until I could draw them blindfold , and I began to visualize them inside me . |
| 19 | There are four key ideas in that sentence , and I want to underline them for a few more minutes . |
| 20 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 21 | and I have to translate them into DOS , and it 's a hassle and I do n't like . |
| 22 | The most important of these points are three in number , and I have expressed them for the sake of clarity in less technical and exact terminology than Halliday uses . |
| 23 | And I have seen them at the mid-day rest hour of twelve to one , I have seen a ploughman come into the stable , shake up the straw in the stall of his leading beast and lie down there and sleep . |
| 24 | I have known turnstones all my life as common winter visitors to the coastal areas of Britain , and I have seen them on their breeding-grounds in Lapland and in Spitsbergen , but I had n't really expected to find that they were ‘ bird-table ’ visitors in the Seychelles . |
| 25 | He is leaving tomorrow , and I have parted them with my selfishness and my love . |
| 26 | They were exhausted going into the singles and I hated banging them in there for every match . |
| 27 | And I suggested charging them like sixty pounds for the three nights . |
| 28 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 29 | No , I mean , there 's nothing to stop him arresting more British people , or er , any nationality , come to that , and saying well , they did stray into our territory , I 'm sorry about this , but er , we ca n't have that sort of thing , you 'll have to er , come and see if I want to release them in a few months . |
| 30 | If I have to lift them for a match of that importance then I might as well walk out of the job . ’ |