Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb base] they [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'm going anywhere where I want them to see me as a ‘ teacher ’ you know with all that that implies , then I 'll wear my wedding ring . |
| 2 | ‘ I said I was subject to them , not that I let them rule me ! ’ |
| 3 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 4 | I was jealous and confused , so I let them twist me up — distort everything . |
| 5 | I did n't want to but I was frightened they would think it was true , so I let them do it . |
| 6 | The difficulty is I am not an employee of yours , so I hope they accept it . |
| 7 | ‘ And I hope they like it — Laguna is the look of the new generation of Renaults — cars designed with passion and excitement . ’ |
| 8 | No I 've made , it 's made an awful lot of difference to me the New Town I mean we 've got and the Council are very , very good to us , I mean we ca n't say they 're not , they 've had a , I 've had the gas central heating put in , I 've had a shower put in since I 've been here and I mean they do they look after us well , the only thing I 'm upset about that I 've put off the ambulance to go to Leah Manning on a Wednesday because they want me to go on a Tuesday and I can not go on a Tuesday because I have my friend come down which does all odd jobs for me you know , on a Tuesday dear and I just can not so I had to see Mr is it ? |
| 9 | I says , and I bet they call you back . |
| 10 | Now we get to look at these every month , and I want them to keep them to talk to them , to classes about it every month , and so this one , alright it goes back about , but it does n't matter , because what it does , I hope any way , is gives us some thoughts . |
| 11 | ‘ I know he 's their trump card and the big draw , but not so much in one-day cricket , and I feel they overloaded him , ’ Mr Woolmer said . |
| 12 | And then and I think they 've they 're a subcontractor that 's died . |
| 13 | I am glad he came to live among the villagers , and I think they like him too . ’ |
| 14 | Sugar are a king hell rock band and I think they know it . |
| 15 | And they spoke for themselves and I think they promoted us well . |
| 16 | Well apparently it had gone to Andrew , and , Andrew had cos Andrew is n't in the office all the time , and he 'd left it in the office , and I think they faxed it by th Andrew was gon na talk to somebody about it , but of course , by the time he 'd got there , it 'd already been done and this had happened so I 'm gon na ring erm Job Centre when I get home . |
| 17 | So I suppose what you do with Debs is er tell them you want the whole discount and I suppose they give you a card for each floor cos you ca n't walk around with it each floor can you ? |
| 18 | If I see them collecting I 'll ask . |
| 19 | No , but I mean they do it the easy way the |
| 20 | But I know they blamed him for that . |
| 21 | But I sense they take us much more seriously now , and recognise that we have powerful arguments for the environmental respectability , the positive environmental value , indeed , of nuclear energy . |
| 22 | but I think they got it first . |
| 23 | My own brother , Leonard , died from Bright 's disease — that 's a kidney complaint but I think they call it by a different name these days . |
| 24 | Oh well aye but I think they overdid it sometimes . |
| 25 | But they are particularly easy to mark , but I suspect they give us a false sense of objectivity and I think we sometimes give the statistics a little bit too much weight . |
| 26 | During the course of er this meeting you will hear from the Chairman and the Honorary Treasurer and we may well cover an enormous amount of the grounds that is relevant to you as commodores , members and officers of the Association and it might be worth , I am going to avoid what he 's trying to avoid most of that area because I believe they cover it in greater detail and give you more of an opportunity to find out precisely what 's been going on . |
| 27 | ‘ So it will confuse the trackers mightily — especially since I think they picked us up at the Luxembourg border crossing , then followed us in our Mercedes down the autobahn . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ They knock on my door and say they want to pull on a black and white shirt , but when I ask them to prove it some ca n't , ’ said Keegan . |
| 29 | Now I reckon they are doing everything they can to keep me there as long as possible , because when I go they know they 've got a real master-blaster like Chris coming in . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I give his little cars to my grandsons to play with and when I watch them playing I can see Brian as he was playing with them . |