Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] these " in BNC.
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| 1 | After we got that fixed , we stopped in Yellow Stone Park where they had these loos that were just holes in the ground and I dropped the keys to the van down one of them . |
| 2 | After we got that fixed , we stopped in Yellow Stone park where they had these loos that were just holes in the ground and I dropped the keys to the van down one of them . |
| 3 | For instance , there is no exploration of whether gender identity can be constructed in this way or what told these people that they were not the ’ right ’ sex . |
| 4 | Those of us who witnessed the touch-and-go progress of an ultimately triumphant War and Peace — recorded by Philips for release early next year — feared for the future of the rest , but as Gergiev puts it ‘ that which makes me incredibly proud is that I announced these things and they happened ’ — and , one might add , that inspiration was to hand for rather more performances than the fiercely self-critical Gergiev might admit . |
| 5 | If we also assume that my neighbour assumed that I knew these facts about the world , and that I interpreted her words according to the co-operative principle , then we can also see why the way she actually phrased her request is not only true and relevant , but also brief and clear . |
| 6 | It was only later , when I had the chance of a closer look , that I realized these smaller machines were generating electricity for the tower . |
| 7 | Erm and so far well I 'm certainly willing to confess that I took these away full of good intentions and have have so far carried around this torn up copy of the Greater London Green Party for months . |
| 8 | However , I use an overhead projector in the course of my job and the pens we use are washable , so I thought these might be a suitable substitute . |
| 9 | He said last night : ‘ I 've had a spot of bother for the past four or five years with my knee so I had these X-rays done and they found a bone growth about the size of a pea . |
| 10 | ‘ I always wanted to have nice things , ’ she explained , seeing Ianthe 's interested looks , ‘ so I collected these over the years . ’ |
| 11 | Surely we do not wish to deny that she saw these hazards despite her being unable to tell us anything about what she saw . |
| 12 | grandma er said when she went to China and that she saw these bogeys on the back of bikes that they were carrying |
| 13 | That you got these Abbey National sort it out , thank goodness ! |
| 14 | " So you brought these all this long way to show me . |
| 15 | You could n't afford to have drivers sitting around for ten minutes not doing anything , so you married these routes up together and were able to , by manipulation , get them to a more economical run . |
| 16 | This seems an effort to fit a cult-statue into a building with a sacrificial pit ; and though it was in profile that one saw these statues as one came in or went out , if one looked up as one passed under the beam which hid them , one saw them again , carved in very low relief on its underside , standing frontal and looking down at one : altogether an astonishing conception . |
| 17 | There was no coke , so we got these old two-piece army stones , army stoves and by putting a brick or two inside it , we had a five gallon bucketful of mixture of engine oil and hundred octane . |
| 18 | Once we had these we could immediately understand the commercial angles . ’ |
| 19 | We can agree that they carried these shows too far . |
| 20 | Hubel and his colleagues had studied the visual cortex of the rhesus monkey for many years without observing these cells and it was only when the cytochrome oxidase blobs had been demonstrated consistently and they started to look for receptive-field properties within them that they obtained these surprising results . |
| 21 | This was a century or more after the Romans had left — not that they influenced these parts very much — they built their walls and garrisons and roads and left the wild fell folk alone . |
| 22 | The schools were quick to point out to us that they regarded these figures for truancy as an underestimate . |
| 23 | that er , oh course , like everywhere else , like the building of Stansted Airport or the , you know , there was people who were against , I mean the beautiful countryside spoilt by a New Town , so they had these committees and brigadier |
| 24 | their throats were completely erm , full of worms , and they could n't get any more worms into those throats , so they knew these chicks were totally full , as full could be . |
| 25 | To measure the intensity of his hatred , it is only necessary to add that he wrote these words when it was public knowledge that women and children by the thousands were among the population of those camps . |
| 26 | But to be fair to Green it was from his burning wish for people to admire the scenery , not from a desire to spoil it , that he made these suggestions , which certainly are not so far fetched in the 20th century as they must have been then . |
| 27 | ‘ If we find that it is true that he made these deals he could lose his permit , ’ he said . |
| 28 | In The Prelude ( though one could argue that Wordsworth is writing after meeting Coleridge ) , he tells us that he felt these emotions as early |
| 29 | He wanted to announce that he commanded these skies . |
| 30 | Once his mother realized that he had these additional problems she was able to understand how frustrated he had been and also how irritable she had been when he did not respond to her . |