Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] they [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henri and I sheltered them for a while , but of course it was very risky with the Germans billeted everywhere except the smallest cottages . |
| 2 | My mother then gathered them up and put them in a container , and I took them to a nearby stream and let them go with goodness knows what effect on the environment . |
| 3 | Dinner I boil myself just a few potatoes , and I eat them with a piece of bread … |
| 4 | I know , I went , I got some whelks once and that was in Bay , they were lovely whelks and I put 'em in a bucket and er did n't think and now I used to put some flour in with 'em . |
| 5 | Her last words had been spoken very portentously , and I rewarded them with a dubious shrug . |
| 6 | All the perennials are bought in containers and I grow them for a year in their pots to see how they cope with the conditions , then I plant them out in the garden . " |
| 7 | I am childless ; but the Jews are my children and I love them as a parent should , which is to say that I do n't love them for their qualities ( remarkable as these seem to me to be , naturally ) , and only wish them to exist , and to flourish , and to have their right to life and love . |
| 8 | Since they had n't spotted me earlier , there was no embarrassment attached to my circuitous ramble and I hailed them with a tone of voice that sounded as if I knew what I was doing . |
| 9 | There 's a man and a woman sitting at a table by the window , and I watch them for a bit . |
| 10 | ‘ Not if I beat them to a pulp it wo n't . |
| 11 | At planning meetings with the senior management I often had to endure predictable little jokes about Andreas 's ‘ harem ’ , but I took them with a good grace . |
| 12 | THIS IS NOT because I climbed them as a child . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 15 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 16 | A final upthrust of the North York Moors , they were virtually unspoilt when I roamed them as a boy in the 1950s . |
| 17 | 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 . |