Example sentences of "[verb] i [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two elderly Irish ladies , sisters , linked arm in arm , asked me where they were . |
| 2 | Now you 've let me down they 'll just say , we told you so , Sam and Foggerty and all . |
| 3 | ‘ Show me where they hit you ! ’ she cried . |
| 4 | Finally they told me where they had been and how they had been ushered into a sort of waiting room by the proprietress , who had endeavoured to make them feel at ease by offering them marrons glacés . |
| 5 | They both told me how they enjoyed the sport , in which they could compete on equal terms with the able-bodied . |
| 6 | I eat only fish at the Mermaid these days — not because I believe in dieting , but because I once suffered an awful chips surfeit that put me off them for life . |
| 7 | And the building society bloke 's told me today they 've got a hundred and fifty accounts in the office that are sort of heavily in arrears |
| 8 | She had told me how they met at a First Spiritualist Church ‘ Convert the Heathen ’ session outside the Anglican church in putney . |
| 9 | At Milson Airport , Palmerston North , in North Island , Bruce Farquar of the Manawatu Districts Aero Club showed me how they offer not only flight training but also aerial photography and with the slogan Time is money … flying reduces costs publicise their light aircraft passenger and freight services . |
| 10 | Oh they 'd freak me out they would . |
| 11 | But if you 'd also been able to identify me then they would certainly have initiated an investigation . |
| 12 | You tell me why they has Mac before Mains . |
| 13 | ‘ Tell me when they get to fifty . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It means you 're going nowhere until you tell me where they 've gone . |
| 15 | All I want you to do now is tell me where they are . ’ |
| 16 | Meanwhile band manager Charles Cosh tells me how they 're going to crack America . |
| 17 | So many times I have heard someone tell me how they wished they had told the person now dead how much they loved them . |
| 18 | But , the old ones that Tom gave me originally they 've not flowered now for about three months yet they 're not dead . |
| 19 | And it was no comfort having old ladies telling me how they wished they had naturally curly hair . |
| 20 | Small time burglars with the social skills of a potted shrimp telling me how they 're saving all their readies to invest in a club one day — ‘ Maybe Puerto Banus , maybe Chesterfield , I 'm not sure yet . ’ |
| 21 | she 's here telling me how they sent over and she said oh do n't call for the next two week because we 're going to Italy |
| 22 | Do n't ask me why they chose that game . |
| 23 | She bent over to show me how they tried to eat this dust . |
| 24 | I want them to show me how they feel on the pitch . ’ |
| 25 | It do n't worry me how they remember me . |
| 26 | I tried to get Dad to tell me where they 'd gone but he was tipsy and only laughed and said they 'd gone on their ‘ funnymoon ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ They do n't bother to tell me where they 're going . ’ |
| 28 | And there 's another one somewhere cos my friend he used to come round here with his drugs , he used to tell me where they was you know . |
| 29 | The grandfather added : ‘ He was too upset to tell me how they died and I did n't want to ask him . |
| 30 | would someone like to tell me how they would actually incorporate that , that additional information into the first statement ? |