Example sentences of "i [verb] them [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked them to work for a loose confederation of equal republics , largely self-governing , but with certain specified powers on a federal basis . |
| 2 | We did the Christmassy stuff and the old New Orleans favourites and , with Trippy playing the top of the truck cab with a pair of spare drum sticks , I got them organized into a version of Masekela 's Do n't Go Lose It which lasted one and a half circuits . |
| 3 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I expect them to finish in the top two . |
| 5 | I found them built into a cottage . |
| 6 | ‘ I found them wrapped in a brown-paper parcel with ‘ Dirty Books ’ scrawled on the outside with a purple pencil . ’ |
| 7 | I remember them coming through the shop once , want any cheap bananas ? |
| 8 | I heard them talk about the ‘ good creature ’ who did these ‘ wonderful ’ things . |
| 9 | I heard them whispering to the other sailors several times , but I did not suspect what they were planning . |
| 10 | I left right , right , I ran off I jumped out the car because I heard them driving round the corner |
| 11 | Quite soon I heard them coming up the stairs . |
| 12 | ‘ I heard them scavenging along the road somewhere in the mist . |
| 13 | You see , to let you understand , this was maybe about four or five years after nationalization and prior to nationalization of course , was under the L M S , Street Station and were under the L M S and was under the L N E R. But when I arrived at , I heard them talking about the Callie see , the Callie railway . |
| 14 | I urged them to listen to the voice of their individual conscience . |
| 15 | I watched them decide on the wrong place and paint the first mark carefully round a sapling 's trunk . |
| 16 | More rarely , I watched them diving in the sea for sea urchins or other easy prey . |
| 17 | They would never stay in my bedroom very long , but you can imagine my excitement each lunchtime as I watched them arrive in the garden , enter the house and quack their way up to me , as regular as clockwork . |
| 18 | The wind had blown some dead leaves through the door into the church , and I watched them dancing in the sunlight near the grave . |
| 19 | I , i it used to be something I put up with when I was younger , now , if my parents come to visit I ask them to smoke in the corridor , go out of the door , open a window , something , because I found it affects me so badly ! |
| 20 | I saw them gleam in the lamp-light . |
| 21 | ‘ I saw them spooning on the beach , ’ she added , rather wistfully . |
| 22 | I saw them standing in a crowd ; they told me ‘ We want to prove something , show them something . ’ |
| 23 | I use them , but I keep them separated from the majority of plants by surrounding them with strips of glass siliconed to the tank base . |
| 24 | When my mother and a friend came to visit me at Wolverton I brought them to Cambridge and , with the confidence of inexperience , I took them punting on the river . |
| 25 | But how long do I let them struggle with a complicated example before intervening ? |
| 26 | It was the same with the herring gutters that was here , I mind them working on the pier down here , and they all had their fingers tied up with Clotes There was the skill that work in this . |
| 27 | I had them processed at the one-hour place , cost me a fortune but … |
| 28 | One , because they are advertised as that race and two , I see them dashing around the track . |