Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] i [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 2 | now I , I have seen foxes and I mean they are they are now in built up areas are n't they ? |
| 3 | Chatham has attractions and I think they would try and carry on , but the impact of the injunction sought on their businesses would be very significant and the probability must be that they would have to cease operations . |
| 4 | I heard the ambulance and the police cars and I saw them putting the man into the ambulance and trying to resuscitate him and driving away . |
| 5 | They do n't understand about spies and I expect they eat merchants . ’ |
| 6 | Now the only thing I would criticize that for is that , quite often , your councillors , and you all know , think they are all wonderful words and I think they all think that they 're the Churchills of of of of our local council , but actually what they say is a load of boring old twaddle . |
| 7 | They snapped like burned-through twigs and I threw them away . |
| 8 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 9 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | An orange circle of light , the beam from his torch , darted round the tent walls , there was the jingle of keys and I felt them cold in my hand . |
| 16 | the big garden peas with the steak and chips and I done them two fried eggs each . |
| 17 | My goggles ice up at regular intervals and I wipe them with my glove , afraid that I will miss the trail a groundless fear as the dogs follow the pack scent . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And er the foreman and bosses that knew people and they knew the circumstances and I suppose they put a word in and erm you know men were sort of stopped because er I mean , if a man had a house full of children or something , he 'd probably be the very last you know before he was sort of forced to g you know sacked or wh And I mean they were n't sacked in a sense , they was always ready there was a place ready for them to come back to there . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | From the perspective that I write , I can only take matters as I find them . |
| 22 | We had somebody round for dinner on Thursday and bought us a box of After Eight Mints and I think they lasted five minutes |
| 23 | I save the tins , wash them and paint the outsides and I use them as cache pots for all my plants , which neatly disguises the yoghurt pots in which I have planted them ! |
| 24 | The WWF give me the ideas and I design them . |
| 25 | But then I had another er one within er two years and I had them both fairly quickly . |
| 26 | of the , the national average and it 's not because erm they 're paying high wages to get the , the most able people , it 's because there are mechanisms , institutional mechanisms that keep wages high , there 's no market in the jobs for , th these are generalizations but I think they are fairly , fairly true erm becau there is no market for er for the jobs , for civil service jobs that appointments are made and it is much more important who you know than , than what , what you know and the old boy network , as it 's called , in this country is fairly important in the English Civil Service but a similar sort of network tends to be far more important in developing countries , something that is euphemistically called patronage erm but we might call the old boy network or er er jobs for the boys whatever , but erm |
| 27 | ‘ Two days after I tell them about Damien Gould , he 's dead . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But I have made the films as I wanted them . |
| 30 | 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 . |