Example sentences of "[noun pl] but i [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 2 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Now that was certainly the views of the President of the Board of Trade before er he er returned to the cabinet er at another time and I 'm not sure if he 's departed from these views but I think they 're worthy of some weight . |
| 5 | I do n't always know the answers to the questions but I answer them anyway . |
| 6 | I understand the feelings but I think they should study circuses like us and say this is the sort of circus we want in Witney with no caged animals . |
| 7 | These pieces speak to me of boundless beauty and passion and I rejoice in my tears but I use them too , intuitively , when I feel depressed or despairing , to release tears . |
| 8 | They thought I meant for five seconds but I made them practise holding their tone for twenty or thirty seconds . |
| 9 | It 's just like , no two girls got expelled from my last school for drugs but I think they actually one of them gave it to the other one but they were both expelled . |