Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] these [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I asked about these stories . |
| 2 | Yeah but I got by these people who 've been to Jamaica , says that he gi if you give five pound tip for there , there what 's erm they do n't like it , it 's not enough , they wo n't speak to you no more . |
| 3 | While I suffered from these dreams on my slab of rock , something woke me . |
| 4 | So I came across these things you see when we were first married because I used to write out all Hector 's bills for him , by hand before we had a typewriter |
| 5 | He said of course I scampered through these bull rushes , they never saw me they never caught me and they never ever knew who it was who 'd done it , see . |
| 6 | You see , you 'd think I knew about these things would n't you , you 'd think I knew |
| 7 | Why ca n't I seem to remember what I saw before when I looked at these things … |
| 8 | At first I thought of these ideas as jewels formed in a matrix of rock like a diamond or like a fragile vase fired in a kiln at Ching-Te-Chin — an emperor 's gift . |
| 9 | See the first week I went to these schools they could n't speak a word of Punjabi . |
| 10 | I went to these people today |
| 11 | I went through these areas that I wanted to work in and I argued with Jeremy that we had n't allowed for ‘ things visual ’ , that we had a visual medium , that Britain was profoundly under-educated visually , so that we should actually use television for visual education and he fell for this . |
| 12 | I bought of these scallops up there this week Bet . |
| 13 | A fascinating new thing I learned during these sessions was ‘ feather care ’ , which , of course , comes under the general heading of the bird 's health and safety . |
| 14 | Yeah , that 's what I said to these chaps . |
| 15 | So I 'm not creeping back for my job but anything erm it 's not that and erm But the lads in the lodge sometimes you 've got to and er I 've got a bit of er well a speery voice you know rough so sometimes I get a little bit of control on them and erm also as I said about these chaps that are working , erm we 're not blind , we know what 's happening and we 've got sympathy even with them . |
| 16 | I crawled down these stairs forty-eight years ago and I 've walked up and down them ever since , mostly in me bare feet , and I 've never got splinters . ’ |
| 17 | I wrote about these controls last month . |
| 18 | They are put forward by the schools through the local authorities , except that of course there are a large number of independent schools in East and West Sussex , and these schools have I wrote to these ones asking if they had any children that they wanted to nominate . |
| 19 | Writers were Tom Leonard , Alasdair Gray and ( he joined us for ‘ The Pie ’ ) Jim Kelman and I. Tom 's black , black ironies and satires on the Lebanon , the New Right , the Media , West of Scotland sectarianism and chauvinism ; Alasdair Gray 's insane Grant family , his moneyed braggarts and blusterers , his quick shifts of dramatic power in curt sketches , his deranged respected old politicos ; Jim Kelman 's surrealist pubs and monologuing gamblers , and grim almost folk tales — like the story of ‘ The Hon ’ that comes up out of the lavatory pan ( ’ Yi nivir know the minit ’ ) meant that the broad rather lightweight stuff I wrote for these revues had plenty of stronger , more solid , meatier material contrasting with it . |
| 20 | I pondered on these things and felt that it was not good … |
| 21 | I decided to apply for some help , so my daughter Lilya ( Aliki ) and I wrote a letter to Andropov and Brezhnev , and I explained in these letters that what had been stolen was a large number of works from the collection that I had intended to give to the Tretyakov Gallery . |
| 22 | I wondered about these changes as we rode towards the house . |