Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not mean that I am not going to suggest some home truths : only that I think they are truths , and not another uncomprehending outsider 's attempt to cajole , belittle or malign people who are struggling to do their best in a complex and stressful situation , and who know better than anyone else that their best sometimes is n't very good . |
| 2 | In a muffled voice she added , ‘ They had so little time together that I hope they were happy . ’ |
| 3 | if you leave them in the pile fair enough and I think they can go to archive , but please can you re-title the contents page and the pages cos they 're not interview data it 's count data , er I would of thought by now Scott knew the difference between interview and account |
| 4 | Well he , he said if they , if , if , some , get a visitor in and I give them a cup of coffee well that 's all right , but I do n't know if it 's money or , or like maybe , maybe . |
| 5 | By that time her clothes were dry , and we brought them in and I ironed them and hung them in the sun again , this time to air . |
| 6 | Well my other car is a nineteen twenty nine V six Bentley , which will do a hundred mile an hour , so if I drive them alternately it cuts me down to size . |
| 7 | so if I bring them down on the floor , you know that if they say maybe naughty |
| 8 | I might scribble them down if I like them well enough . ’ |
| 9 | I think it has come in but I think they 're still |
| 10 | Supposed to have eggs in but I forgot them , but you do n't cook it . |
| 11 | Mine do n't eat tadpoles , perhaps because I feed them regularly . |
| 12 | I keep this all the ti got some you see I 'm trying to group the flowers together because I think they give more effect that way . |
| 13 | ‘ I suggest we sit down while I explain them to you briefly . ’ |
| 14 | Eeh , I 'm beginning to think those legs of yours have disappeared , it 's so long since I saw them . |
| 15 | ‘ So it will confuse the trackers mightily — especially since I think they picked us up at the Luxembourg border crossing , then followed us in our Mercedes down the autobahn . ’ |
| 16 | But I think I knew about her and her mother long before I looked them both in the face , or heard about their existence ; knew that the half-understood adult conversations around me , the quarrels about " her " , the litany of " she " , " she " , " she " from behind closed doors made the figure in the New Look coat , hurrying away , wearing the clothes my mother wanted to wear , angry with me yet nervously inviting me to follow , caught finally in the revolving door . |
| 17 | You know , so before I approach them , they 've gon na have to quit the union |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | By the end of the afternoon , after a few more pints , he gets involved in a Q&A challenge — he says he 'll answer any question , so long as I keep them coming . |
| 20 | Only when I take them off |
| 21 | So when I approached them with my intricate scheme for escaping the greedy jaws of Mr Kinnock and his pals via the strategic disappearance of Punch , they saw the beauty of it straightaway . |
| 22 | It is just that I believe they are probably more rare than is claimed . |
| 23 | I was scared of them but I was n't going to let them get away so I gave them a good run for their money . |
| 24 | ‘ I said I was subject to them , not that I let them rule me ! ’ |
| 25 | Ltd. v. B.O.A.C. [ 1955 ] A.C. 169 , 191 , Lord Reid stated that if the arguments are fairly evenly balanced ( not that I believe they are in this case ) , that interpretation should be chosen which involves the least alteration of the existing law . |
| 26 | ‘ Not that I wanted them to go , ’ she said . |
| 27 | It 's not that I need them |
| 28 | A small party of bird watchers rounded a bend in the path fifty yards away and I beckoned them to hurry . |
| 29 | Not if I shoot them . |
| 30 | ‘ Not if I beat them to a pulp it wo n't . |