Example sentences of "those [noun pl] i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To allow for those contingencies I think it right to allow the commercial rate for the twenty eight hours per week in inverted commas , parental care , rather than a discounted rate . |
| 2 | The U S rig count is down , both because of those rigs I told you about for tax reasons and also because there 's always a seasonal downturn in the first quarter of this year . |
| 3 | In those days I think I must have regarded many of the people dotted about my landscape more as bushes than as the human beings I now see them to have been : some dull and uninteresting like laurel bushes ; some like lavender sweetly scented ; some thorny , to be avoided ; and then rose bushes , gooseberry bushes , fuchsia bushes — but all just part of the scenery , and I withdrawn from them into my dreams . |
| 4 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 5 | All those years I amassed it , and polished it with my mind : for the Jews ' teeth . |
| 6 | And er I include myself in that by having been in sales and marketing for all those years I thought I I could do anything . |
| 7 | A What about those things I asked you to bring ? |
| 8 | A What about those things I asked you to bring ? |
| 9 | I think I 'll just take those sheets I said I would give you . |
| 10 | ‘ Those papers I gave you the other evening — ’ |
| 11 | But this is it they do n't said no to spending ninety five pounds on a fridge yeah those boxes I mean it 's gon na be six seven hundred pounds for those |
| 12 | Basically , that means maintaining quality work , but easing down to give my body time to recover and possibly even occasionally allowing myself the luxury of collapsing on the settee , falling asleep and dreaming of all those races I wish I could still win . |
| 13 | — ( in answer to How are you getting on with those jobs I asked you to do ? ) |