Example sentences of "i [vb base] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I commend them to your care . |
| 2 | I commend them to the house . |
| 3 | Our amendments would er restore democratic accountability for police authorities , they would remove the proposed concentration of power in the hands of the Home Secretary and I commend them to the Committee . |
| 4 | So be it but , remaining as I am of the view that they were a correct expression of the law , I repeat them as part of the ratio of my decision in this case . |
| 5 | Dinner I boil myself just a few potatoes , and I eat them with a piece of bread … |
| 6 | Then I wind them into balls and put them in the oven to dry , and that 's how I come to have all those woollen articles to sell . ’ |
| 7 | Thus it was that Ira Dilworth paid tribute and bade farewell to Emily Carr with the borrowed lines from Thomas Hardy , and I am certain that none would object if I borrow them as my tribute to both . |
| 8 | ‘ I borrow them from the library . |
| 9 | ‘ I make them for the shops to sell , ’ she told Virginia . |
| 10 | I judge them by their racial characteristics . |
| 11 | All the perennials are bought in containers and I grow them for a year in their pots to see how they cope with the conditions , then I plant them out in the garden . " |
| 12 | ‘ I think I smell them from here . ’ |
| 13 | I mean , I write things in a certain way , so I expect them to be played in a certain way . |
| 14 | ‘ I have a part interest , about to become sole if negotiations continue as I expect them to , in a tiny Portuguese-language radio station in Macau . |
| 15 | It very seldom goes to court , but when they tell lies that are damaging , I sue them as a matter of principle , and always give every penny to charity . |
| 16 | I criticise them for refusing to accept that they made a mistake and for refusing to take any action to put matters right , when it was patently obvious that everything was going disastrously wrong . |
| 17 | I send them on regular trips abroad to keep up to date with new technology … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ My children might say that they do n't want to live with me because I send them to bed early . |
| 19 | I send them to you now in a pill-box wrapped close in paper that they may n't chink . |
| 20 | We get C V's printed up cos I send them to my dad . |
| 21 | I want them to be amused . |
| 22 | These guys therefore must have a facility of ensuring that the price is correct , from an internal control point of view I want them to be involved in certifying that the price is correct . |
| 23 | I want them to be impressed by what they see . |
| 24 | My fingers ca n't spell out the words the way I want them to . |
| 25 | I 'd like to see what hard nosed er B A I E people would make of it you know people who are making a living from doing the same well you know when I employ somebody coming into the business this is what I want them to be able to do um this has always been of course an a criticism |
| 26 | No I want them like that . |
| 27 | I remember I was going in to record ‘ Cuts Like A Knife ’ and I said , ‘ I 'm taking you guys into the studio , ’ because who I play with on stage , I want them in the studio with me ; I like the idea of having one unit . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I want them in the midday post . |
| 29 | do you wan na little bit more table , that 's gon na be alright because you 've erm , if I move them if you put on that , if I hold them on my lap and then they wo n't get , you wo n't want to ask me , do you want another one ? |
| 30 | I picture them as neurons , part of a great mass mind . |