Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] i [verb] they " in BNC.

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1 I thought it was n't fair that I should begin to show when I was barely into my fourth month , and I got angry with my clothes , as if it were their fault that I pulled them out of shape .
2 We are very grateful for their support and their continued interest in our programme and I think they were er conscious of the fact that Vice President Pandolfi was coming here and so they have contacted him saying how essential they think it is that the work should continue here .
3 They were built with me in mind and I liked them and got a couple from Fender .
4 ‘ Alex picked up a pair of her earrings and asked : Will Mummy mind if I wear them
5 ‘ 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 ? ’
6 In fact , I only met one decorator … a young couple wanted to buy a piece and I offered them a discount as they had n't got a decorator - at which she drew herself up and said : ‘ We are not married .
7 Yeah they went down in convoy car and I think they , four or five cars went down there
8 Foreshadowing the pressure his party will exert on Labour , Mr Ashdown said at a news conference in the National Liberal Club in London yesterday : ‘ I think they 've got to get down off the fence and I believe they will . ’
9 Foreshadowing the pressure that the Liberal Democrats will exert on Labour , Mr Ashdown said at a news conference in the National Liberal Club in London yesterday : ‘ I think they 've got to get down off the fence and I believe they will . ’
10 I 'd love to have a look mind cos I bet they 're all , you know , small .
11 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 .
12 ‘ They had tasted blood and I feared they would attack someone else .
13 er well there 's one there that 's a continual er it is American , well it 's an American style programme but I mean they advertise all kinds of things from all
14 Well , I was bailed on a charge of fraud but I feel they 've got something else up their sleeve .
15 I left right , right , I ran off I jumped out the car because I heard them driving round the corner
16 I 'm growing them for the wedding , they 'll have to get cut because I break them .
17 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 .
18 My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford .
19 Almost as if you understood what was in my mind when I designed them . ’
20 Well I mean it 's gone much beyond that I mean they the reality of the situation is er is not like that I 'm afraid I mean it Eighteen men have been sacked and and these are men that have put those quarries where they are .
21 ‘ 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 . ’
22 Although I have serious reservations about the methodology of most of these studies ( in that they are far too pessimistic about the ability of the business community to respond to changing circumstances following changing relative prices ) and although some of the shortages which appear are due not so much to the limits of nature as the intervention and regulation of governments , nevertheless they raise sufficiently serious doubts about such things as the effects of carbon dioxide and the present lack of adequate recycling that I believe they must be taken seriously .
23 He loved buying me clothes , he bought me twenty-nine ball gowns , one for each year of our marriage and I have them all still , hanging up in my closet .
24 And er I erm I organised a lot of that sort of thing erm by er it was exact measurements and spindles and you know like Erm yes , I could n't remember a lot now but er a lot of people , if I might say so , used me you know , Michael , my knowledge and skill and I allowed them to and I 'm not complaining .
25 That 's happened , I could n't get any one year I took the triplets to the erm Goose Hill coffee morning in the Town Hall and I gave them all money for the tombola and one of them won a Creme Egg
26 They said they would not let my back into the village until I got them a ration card and some wheat .
27 " When these telegrams came I ran down and opened the door to the boy and I showed them to Mummy and she began very bravely , how lovely dear , and then began to cry and shut herself in her room .
28 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 ?
29 That 's right , yes , I run the Search Room there , which means that erm people come in to Pelham House , they usually meet me at a desk on the end of a telephone and I put them onto the documents that they want to look at and I make sure they 're ordered up from where they 're kept in one of the various repositories and strongrooms that we 've got , and then I produce them for them and erm if they need any help reading them and so on I give them that .
30 Yeah well I me and Margaret should be in the hall but I think they 've assumed that there will be less
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