Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] i [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Alex picked up a pair of her earrings and asked : Will Mummy mind if I wear them … |
| 2 | ‘ Alex picked up a pair of earrings Monica had given Rachel for her 21st birthday the other day and said : ‘ Will mummy mind if I wear them ? ’ |
| 3 | I 'd love to have a look mind cos I bet they 're all , you know , small . |
| 4 | The dark fields in front of the castle were covered in what seemed to be pinpricks of light until I realised they were men carrying torches , streaming towards the main gate . |
| 5 | Erm , I do n't like long titles , and er , and erm , and I am wary also of the public protection words because I think they do infer , as , as was stated quite clearly at personnel , they do infer that the Chief Fire Officer 's somewhere in there as well , and he is n't . |
| 6 | One has to try and explain what it is we are about and why we 're doing it and , if necessary , perhaps point out a few distinctions that may exist , for instance , between the professional and the amateur scene , not that I like using those words because I think they 're fraught with all sort of potential misunderstandings . |
| 7 | I left right , right , I ran off I jumped out the car because I heard them driving round the corner |
| 8 | I 'm growing them for the wedding , they 'll have to get cut because I break them . |
| 9 | And I thought they were going to the meeting er on Friday because I knew they were both off |
| 10 | With this fancy in my mind as I watch them pass , sometimes in that delusive light of Venice those ships seem to blur before me and I see them transmuted into vessels of the past . |
| 11 | And er she says Jean I swear to God she says if she comes over near my door , I 've told Jim she says , I , I 'm ready for her I 'll beat her round that square and she said I 'm not like that but she says that 's just the way she says , and she hurt my kids when I sent them Easter eggs over , doing that she says , that really galled me , she says cos they were hurting my kids rather than me . |
| 12 | Stok joined in the last three words as I said them , and then he laughed So loud that I thought he would shake some of the cracked tiles off the wall . |
| 13 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 14 | Almost as if you understood what was in my mind when I designed them . ’ |
| 15 | Although the garden is not arranged to a precise colour scheme , Connie has strong views on colour , ‘ I ca n't be doing with strong , deep reds so I use them only in moderation . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I am carrying a load of wiring and electronic equipment so I knew they would be interested in it , but I am completely in favour of this type of search . ’ |
| 17 | and erm she had right go at Tessa cos I see them together sometimes . |
| 18 | They said they would not let my back into the village until I got them a ration card and some wheat . |
| 19 | But that 's so quickly out of date again you see the good wood cos I mean they they have new government schemes , schemes every year do n't they ? |
| 20 | A girl called Sarah when I 'm in Los Angeles but she does n't come on tour with me — I just use people from local salons if I need them . |
| 21 | that do explain a little bit about Abbey Life products and also have a copy of as well erm they might find that of help before I give them a call . |
| 22 | Old hands from the music business — usually loquacious if invited to reminisce — were struck by collective amnesia when I asked them about Dury . |
| 23 | That 's the Icelandic so there 's some of the historical things that ladies had learned to do with their hands knitted on pins of various er calibres or d degrees , gauges as I call them . |
| 24 | From the perspective that I write , I can only take matters as I find them . |
| 25 | If you really can not talk then you can write your replies , but I am not leaving this room until I have them . |
| 26 | Is he paying more than us for apparatus cos I think they 've bought one phone but the other one |
| 27 | They were about to arrest the whole band until I told them I was to blame . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Do you think the speakers would give a better quality of sound if I moved them further apart ? ’ |
| 29 | Well a thing called power handshakes , which I thought were the biggest load of gobbledegook until I watched them , a specific chat show host . |
| 30 | ‘ Two days after I tell them about Damien Gould , he 's dead . |