Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was n't going to unroll the damn things , ’ continued Lydia , ‘ so I banged them in the oven , humming insouciantly the while and served them up all bubbling hot . |
| 2 | Erm , thought it would be nice at handicrafts afternoon and then we could throw the handicraft meeting open to anybody if I told them at the meeting before were going to have it . |
| 3 | If I take them on the table they wo n't make so much noise then |
| 4 | I think these 'd probably be better if I did them on the one you suggested for |
| 5 | ‘ Not if I beat them to a pulp it wo n't . |
| 6 | Unless I put them on the outside wood . |
| 7 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
| 8 | THIS IS NOT because I climbed them as a child . |
| 9 | ‘ Sorry , but I really , truly can not help you now , ’ I say , just before I dispatch them on a current running down towards St Malo . |
| 10 | From now on I 'll always put any conditioners and remedies in a separate container before I add them to the tank . |
| 11 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 12 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 13 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 14 | When I met them after the game and asked them what they thought , they said the highlight was listening to the girl behind them telling her mate that if Batty did n't start playing better then she 'd have to start denying him sex ! ! ! |
| 15 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 16 | Not like the covenant which I made when I took them by the hand To bring them out of the land of Egypt — my covenant which they broke Although I was a husband to them , says the Lord . |
| 17 | When I leave them in the hall the lids burst open again . |
| 18 | The dogs were surprised when I disturbed them in the middle of the night and they chased in their runs when I left again , strained to see me departing through the rain , and hear the car door opening , their bowls clanking as I threw them inside . |
| 19 | When I buy them from the chemist , I pretend they 're for someone else . |
| 20 | A final upthrust of the North York Moors , they were virtually unspoilt when I roamed them as a boy in the 1950s . |
| 21 | When I see them in the church I always talk to them and I said ‘ Look have you got bottles ? ’ and sometimes they 'll say yes and sometimes they 'll say no . |
| 22 | Ken Deeming , who runs the Hideaway in Burgundy , said : ‘ I will not accept Eurocheques because when I pay them into the bank I am losing money because of the transaction charges . ’ |
| 23 | Too quickly , for my mother looked at me as I put them on the table . |
| 24 | Much as I regard them as a social nuisance on a par with the Orange Walk and invented by the devil to prevent churchgoers getting to church on time , I can not claim that marathons have ( yet ) been proved to kill enough people to justify banning them . |
| 25 | As I placed them in the water , the bone-china cups and saucers became first glass then nothing ; the water was cold as a glacier . |