Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am a Guild member and everything I sell carries their hallmark . ’ |
| 2 | I tried to accept their ways and that affected me . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I suppose now that you 've dragged it out of Edna , I shall have to say that I remember a man and my mother in a yellow frock looking unusually pretty and being angry that they would n't take any notice of me when I tried to get their attention . |
| 4 | Rather than once again review the authorities in chronological order , therefore , I propose to encapsulate their effect in a number of propositions which can , I believe , be so stated as to reflect the law as it is presently understood with a reasonable degree of accuracy . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to see their little nest . ’ |
| 6 | Here , briefly , I want to take their critique seriously as a way of identifying the issue of value , of resisting the more celebratory aspects of an accommodation to the logic of commodification and consumption , and of recovering some of the ground lost or forfeited by critique . |
| 7 | I have no interest in the psychological interpretation of my sitters , I want to convey their physical appearance . |
| 8 | I want to know their views on what needs to change . ’ |
| 9 | When I saw that , I stopped stealing their food . |
| 10 | But the thought refused to depart that my refuge , this whole vast Cathedral , stone , paper , metal , cloth , wood , everything had gone wrong , sick , contagious ; it had turned against me ; even the Bibles were against me ; I seemed to feel their angry pulse on my back — bump , bump , bump , bump … |
| 11 | ‘ Whenever I 'd played their records I 'd be dancing around me room , and to dance onstage to the music you like is just f—ing awesome . |
| 12 | Because I knew their job , I 'd done their job you see . |
| 13 | But shunters and all the rest I 'd done their job . |
| 14 | ‘ As I was saying , I 'd pushed their occupancy rates up by 40 per cent by the time I left , and headed up a worldwide promotional campaign that got Mandarin more free press exposure than ever before . |
| 15 | Oh well , I 'd followed their suggestion and taken that out . |
| 16 | I could see her English neighbour shutting her front door in our faces , and yet all the same we left the two children there , rushing away after I 'd pinched their cheeks to make them cry so that she 'd have to come out to them . |
| 17 | I 'd learned their names only to the extent that they owned horses in the horse car or had touched bases with Filmer , which came to only about half . |
| 18 | Parties to Protocol I undertake to prohibit their nations and vessels from driftnet fishing in the Convention area while parties to Protocol II accept further obligations in waters within their own jurisdiction . |
| 19 | Most people I meet wag their heads in agreement at the proposition that Libya is a cornerstone in Bush 's re-election bid . |
| 20 | Cos I like watching their faces . |
| 21 | Nevertheless we are generally satisfied that both committees , that 's the English and the Welsh committees , have done a thorough job and on behalf of my colleagues I would certainly like to pay tribute to those who served on those committees who I believe discharged their responsibilities with great professionalism in circumstances made unnecessarily difficult by ministerial dithering and delay . |
| 22 | Well the tom tiddlers of British political life I suppose write their memoirs for a couple of reasons because they ca n't ever admit to themselves they are tom tiddlers . |
| 23 | I had to relieve , relieve the other deck hands for their meals and I started cleaning their cabin out as well . |
| 24 | I try to extend their tool potential in relation to what I need to accomplish . |
| 25 | How I love to recall their looks to my mind 's eye … |
| 26 | I asked many of the girls I spoke to imagine their feelings about going to an important birthday party at the age of five , and every single one mentioned dressing up , wanting to look pretty , wear a special dress , and ‘ be noticed ’ . |
| 27 | I start opening their drawers . |
| 28 | And I did build their amps virtually identically , but because they use their own types of guitar and their own different effects , the amps all sounded different . |
| 29 | Among the many booksellers and publishers whom I spotted letting their hair down on the dance floor was independent publisher Christopher Hurst . |
| 30 | ‘ So they never lived long enough to know I had justified their faith in me . ’ |