Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] i [verb] them " 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 left right , right , I ran off I jumped out the car because I heard them driving round the corner |
| 4 | I 'm growing them for the wedding , they 'll have to get cut because I break them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 9 | Almost as if you understood what was in my mind when I designed them . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | and erm she had right go at Tessa cos I see them together sometimes . |
| 12 | They said they would not let my back into the village until I got them a ration card and some wheat . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Old hands from the music business — usually loquacious if invited to reminisce — were struck by collective amnesia when I asked them about Dury . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | From the perspective that I write , I can only take matters as I find them . |
| 18 | If you really can not talk then you can write your replies , but I am not leaving this room until I have them . |
| 19 | They were about to arrest the whole band until I told them I was to blame . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Do you think the speakers would give a better quality of sound if I moved them further apart ? ’ |
| 21 | Well a thing called power handshakes , which I thought were the biggest load of gobbledegook until I watched them , a specific chat show host . |
| 22 | ‘ Two days after I tell them about Damien Gould , he 's dead . |
| 23 | One of the men called to me in German as I passed them . |
| 24 | I also understand from meetings , I 'm meeting a group of social workers as I call them , that are dealing with the people with learning difficulties , erm , these are at present taking place in the Castle Hall . |
| 25 | But I have made the films as I wanted them . |
| 26 | Every last one of them I would imagine that were in that room when I met them er a week ago Friday I would , would probably stake my shirt on it , not that shirt , but this one |
| 27 | I was unfamiliar with the equipment in the room , although I knew an operating table and anaesthetic apparatus when I saw them . |
| 28 | and could report upon them in their own ethical statements , but they could not object to my ethical statements as I meant them , if I have the relevant feelings . |
| 29 | Says the star : ‘ They did n't bat an eyelid when I told them I wanted it delivered 5,000 miles away in London . |
| 30 | On the whole , she thought as she grilled her lamb chop , tossed the broad beans from cullender to plate and regarded the ginger-haired Tobias who had curled up companionably on a copy of the parish magazine in the centre of the kitchen table , it 's an icon of paradise : a garden I did not make , a house I 'm only partly responsible for and , above all , no human contacts unless I seek them out . |