Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stacked the papers carefully and replaced them where I had found them . |
| 2 | Changez and Jamila sat apart , and although I tried to catch them looking at each other , I can guarantee that not a single surreptitious glance was exchanged by the future bed-mates . |
| 3 | ‘ Liverpool Football Club will never leave me , although I have left them . |
| 4 | Displaying his sense of humour , McKenzie quipped : ‘ I think I 've had my arms around Phil more often than I 've had them around my fiancee ’ . |
| 5 | Sadly , mine is a sort of hole in the wall — not possible to move — so I spend more time running back and forth to fetch tools than I do using them . |
| 6 | If he does n't , we 'll do it for him , so I like to see them trying out grass for themselves . |
| 7 | ‘ I wanted to give them to his wife but she is n't here so I 've given them to him instead , ’ she said . |
| 8 | Andrew and Waddy play bars 7 and 8 in harmony , so I 've written them separately , for clarity 's sake . |
| 9 | I do n't think they really understand , so I suggest sending them a copy of the bank statement . |
| 10 | and I did n't change them all day cos I have n't got any money to buy any more so I have to wear them |
| 11 | I 'm a collector , so I have to collect them all . |
| 12 | They exclaimed and condoled , with — once I had assured them that nothing serious had happened to my brother — a rather charming mixture of sympathy for me and pleasure in the excitement of the news . |
| 13 | Once I 'd seen them , I realized I had to get to her before they did . ’ |
| 14 | At Martin Brundle 's lunch in London I discovered that Maurice Hamilton had been the Mastermind question-setter and he reported that if I thought answering them was hard , he had found setting them a good deal harder . |
| 15 | But then should I also have said that Oliver rang up the next day and asked if I 'd liked them ? |
| 16 | I could n't have got the same effect if I 'd fictionalised them . ’ |
| 17 | If I 'd asked them … . ’ |
| 18 | It 'd have been better if I 'd kept them two . |
| 19 | If I 'd told them a tale like that then they would have had me down at the station before I could blink ! ’ |
| 20 | Well , you know , I mean I 'd like to know if I 've answered them right , you know . |
| 21 | I do n't know if I 've got them here . |
| 22 | Sir , why have I got three if I 've got them all right ? |
| 23 | And they come back and see me what they taken from here and seen in other papers is a privilege for me if I 've set them off in my biased Welsh way . . |
| 24 | That way they think twice as much of the girls than if I had praised them myself . ’ |
| 25 | But I should say that if I had to buy them , I would do as I did with the ones I have — buy from a breeder . |
| 26 | And if I had to play them today , I 'd have to get off in a room with a record player , probably for a couple of hours and learn them . ’ |
| 27 | The events of the week-end seemed to recede , to become locked away , as if I had dreamt them ; and yet as I walked there came the strangest feeling , compounded of the early hour , the absolute solitude , and what had happened , of having entered a myth ; a knowledge of what it was like physically , moment by moment , to have been young and ancient , a Ulysses on his way to meet Circe , a Theseus on his journey to Crete , an Oedipus still searching for his destiny . |
| 28 | If I had told them him they would have found out my name . |
| 29 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 30 | I can isolate my Koi and they are easy to catch if I need to give them short term baths . |