Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The idea was I was using them as sub-headings originally but then people were kept y'know slowing d it 's erm very hard to work out whether what you actually want is a good detailed set of notes . |
2 | ‘ Never once , during our association , did they guess that I was using them to further my revenge against the Wolfkings . |
3 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
4 | Or maybe , the other ends got hot while I was a-tapping them on the anvil . ’ |
5 | There we are , I was hiding them with my hand . |
6 | ‘ I knew I was leaving them with the basis of a good side and a first-rate manager in Nigel Best . |
7 | ‘ I knew I was leaving them with the basis of a good side and a first-rate manager in Nigel Best . |
8 | She told Cathy she would pass on the eggs but would like croissants and coffee , and presently I was bringing them to her as she sat with eyes demurely downwards , studiously ignoring my existence . |
9 | Yeah , you normally write them in a straight line but when , when they were numbers I was writing them under each other cos it was easier to add . |
10 | Well this is , this is why I thought perhaps erm I did n't want to ask Jim too much or he would know I was buying them for him you see . |
11 | but do n't get me wrong after a while I just gave up and I was getting them in bouts and I was getting through the Bonjela and the |
12 | and I was telling them about that Indian or Asian doctor at the City Hospital in the Maternity unit . |
13 | Coming back to the council last year , some time in May last year , and er I was telling them about the noise and the situation , at the time . |
14 | I was telling them at school . |
15 | ‘ Me wages are in there and I was taking them to me ma . |
16 | I have to pay 80p for one piece of Vallis , Cabomba etc at any of the fish centres in this part of the world and £1.50 each if I was to buy them in the little pots . |
17 | that 's why I was asking them for , I just want to make it plain my Lord |
18 | I was hitting them on the head and they were all falling on the floor . |
19 | I got her a pair of tough brogues from the plastic bag and all the time I was putting them on her she was looking at me with a vacant stare , her eyes still very wide , the pupils enormous . |
20 | I was putting them round the back and sat thinking about it and I said well we ai n't got no peat , so we had to rush over to Hetford and bought some very good peat , and erm , by the time I got back and started digging hole for them to go in |
21 | Gaitskell became excited at the prospect and instructed me with great firmness that as soon as I had received the ‘ discovered ’ documents I was to show them to no one but to come straight to him , so that he should be the first person to know who the culprit was or what information was available that would lead to the culprit 's identity . |
22 | I mean , all I use I mean , if I was making them for somebody I would use about four or five layers and then I would put a piece of lace of braid or something at the top |
23 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
24 | On the bus home that day , she wondered what her parents would have to say , if she were to ask them about it . |
25 | And you got the odd look but it was n't too severe because at least though they had no clothes on at least you were holding them by the waist . |
26 | You were cheering them to . ’ |
27 | You were lending them to this one here . |
28 | But I can only retrieve her lips , those lightly ribbed , juicy lips , studded and patterned in close-up like a mulberry or a raspberry , their almost leathery texture if you were to brush them with your fingertips or tongue tip ( that snaky little organ equipped with ideas of its own ) . |
29 | So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’ |
30 | She was regarding them with wide , dark eyes , full of uncertainty . |