Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mummy me want to eat them in the high chair |
| 2 | Mummy me want to eat them in that high chair , you staying out here ? |
| 3 | Other times she made me promise to keep them for ever , to remember her by , and say a prayer She was a bit vague who it was I was to pray to . |
| 4 | Yes , just on the sub-ward level , of course there 's really , there 's a lot more investigations to go into targeting the resources , just I mean to target them in a city by having these standard mortality ratios for wards , but they 're all below ward level , and target the specific areas . |
| 5 | For the Lord revealed , ‘ I intend to baptise them with tongues of fire ’ ( Wagner 1973:16 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ There are least three shops in Norwich I really like , and I tend to ring them in advance and say ‘ I 'm coming in for half an hour . |
| 7 | I tend to keep them in the originals cos then I if I need to . |
| 8 | Well I tried to fix them on the door and they would n't stay |
| 9 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 10 | I tried to tell them at first , but now I just smile and say nuffin' , like Brer Rabbit . ’ |
| 11 | I tried to help them in other ways , too . |
| 12 | There are four key ideas in that sentence , and I want to underline them for a few more minutes . |
| 13 | No , I mean , there 's nothing to stop him arresting more British people , or er , any nationality , come to that , and saying well , they did stray into our territory , I 'm sorry about this , but er , we ca n't have that sort of thing , you 'll have to er , come and see if I want to release them in a few months . |
| 14 | yeah cos I want to put them on top |
| 15 | Do you like it straight out the fridge , well , I left it in the fridge , first of all , said oh get the , get the cheeses out , and I said , no I want to leave them in the fridge , I want those nice and cool . |
| 16 | Although I 've talked about some of them before there is such a feeling in fashion for double jacquard that I want to suggest them to you again . |
| 17 | no , no , I , I , I just really want , cos I do n't think there 's any question of me this afternoon ruling on whether you 're right or not on these points , but I just er on second I thoughts I want to have them in mind |
| 18 | I want to help them to enlightened self-expression , and to develop their imaginations — to rid themselves of repressions through self-expression . |
| 19 | Now — how was I going to tell them about Vern ? |
| 20 | ( I did n't find that so funny , though no way was I going to tell them about how this least amiable aspect of Danuese traditional warfare had been continued by FAKINTIL . ) |
| 21 | I got to know the blobs and wiggles in that rough circle that looked like a sample from an oil slick , until I could draw them blindfold , and I began to visualize them inside me . |
| 22 | Having previously discussed it with John , I declined to join them on their expedition to the temples at P. as I feel it is important to them both to have time alone with each other , especially as is at the moment a bit jealous of the twin at school here ( though of course he , chose to opt out of Gordonstoun ) and has anyway not spent as much time with John in recent years as no 2 ! has . |
| 23 | I like to sprinkle them over miniature salads and , mixed with fromage frais , either stuffed into small peaches or rolled up in smoked salmon with a tarragon aspic . |
| 24 | I read both books this year and found them so interesting and closely related , that I decided to use them for my coursework . |
| 25 | I decided to keep them in the count because they gave an interesting sidelight on the history of lending libraries in England with some specific examples , and there were not too many of them . |
| 26 | Let us imagine that I have the misfortune to be born or to have settled in Portugal ; being an enlightened philosopher I dislike the institutions there ; should I try to change them by political subversion ? |
| 27 | I meant to phone them on Wednesday when I got in . |
| 28 | ‘ I offered to coach them for nothing but they said they did n't want me , ’ he added . |
| 29 | I offered to braid them for him ; and he paid me five shillings for half a dozen I did for him . ’ |
| 30 | As soon as I managed to put them on him — which was n't easy ! — he tore away at his legs like a thing possessed and ripped off most of his lovely white leg feathers in the process . |