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 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 . |
| 5 | so if I bring them down on the floor , you know that if they say maybe naughty |
| 6 | Mine do n't eat tadpoles , perhaps because I feed them regularly . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Eeh , I 'm beginning to think those legs of yours have disappeared , it 's so long since I saw them . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You know , so before I approach them , they 've gon na have to quit the union |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Only when I take them off |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is just that I believe they are probably more rare than is claimed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A small party of bird watchers rounded a bend in the path fifty yards away and I beckoned them to hurry . |
| 19 | I did n't think he 'd be cooking tonight cos I knew they were n't shutting the |
| 20 | Just try the one above cos I think they 're oh wait a minute ! |
| 21 | But erm er the school days I think were were really the best days of our lives , but they we were the happiest days anyway because I enjoyed them and most kids enjoyed school in those days , not like it is today . |
| 22 | Erm , most of the people I know , particularly the one 's I like , I look at them and I look at them being beautiful , just because I like them , erm , but I 'm aware of also looking at other people and thinking oh that 's gross you know |
| 23 | Soon after I left them , they were working overtime to fulfil a big order , when there was a breakdown . |
| 24 | In fact er just before I retired they were saying , you know , my job 's obsolete and that , and then and says oh we 're opening up a big depot in Japan . |
| 25 | ‘ Sorry , but I really , truly can not help you now , ’ I say , just before I dispatch them on a current running down towards St Malo . |
| 26 | Just as I said they just phoned , Kenny just phoned and said are you coming horseracing ? |
| 27 | Not in any special order but just as I remember them . |
| 28 | They were just as I remembered them . |
| 29 | I prefer to leave pictures just as I finish them in front of the subject . |
| 30 | You had to stand and have the clothes made on you , and just when I thought they looked wonderful , she 'd go RIP ! and snatch a whole sleeve off . |