Example sentences of "[coord] they [vb base] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or they call me Ernie . |
| 2 | And they ask me for hardly any rent , which is the other nice thing about it . ’ |
| 3 | The only time I do that is when I 'm talking to journalists and they ask me questions about the past . |
| 4 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 5 | And they ask me , Liz , they say . |
| 6 | They do not understand the basis of the argument and they ask me to explain the Government 's position . |
| 7 | And they ask me , Liz , they say . |
| 8 | Yes I believe those people exist and they frighten me and I want them destroyed . |
| 9 | and they 've I gave them to them and they put them on the hedges |
| 10 | I 've been back 4 times and they know me . |
| 11 | In the Unification Church and they 're stealing a march on us right enough and that 's what they 're doing — stealing that march — and they 're up to no good in their unification and I know they 're not and they know I know they 're not and that 's why it all happened . |
| 12 | They rise to the top for food , having associated my particular shape and footfall with food pellets , and they know I do n't pose them any threat . |
| 13 | If they 're in here working all day and everyday and they see the other girls taking exams and they know I 'm going to make them work , quite often they 'll take the exams because there 's no point in not taking them , whereas I think if they were at home they would not have the same incentive . |
| 14 | ‘ The players are all in confident mood and they know I demand 100% concentration on this task . |
| 15 | ‘ North seems a long way away , and they tell me it 's cold there . ’ |
| 16 | I went er for a hearing test er last week and they tell me that my left ear 's a bit full up . |
| 17 | I 've enquired of the regular users of this service and they tell me that on the following days the advertised journeys did not take place : |
| 18 | I just phoned up Leeds for tickets for the Arse game on 24th August , and they tell me that ‘ Tickets will only be available for members ’ , and here 's me thinking that I do n't need to bother with a premier / membership card this year to get my tickets . |
| 19 | I 've got four children and three adults in a three bedroom house and they tell me I ca n't be moved |
| 20 | we 're still involved , and they tell me that life on a fire station is still very pleasant so I 'm sure it must be . |
| 21 | If it 's s something like that and they tell me the amount of furniture and if two thirds of the van will be filled with big stuff , and then they tell me there 'll be half a dozen boxes , I assume there 'll be at least four times that number of boxes , and if it 's still going to go on , we 'll do it . |
| 22 | If I see things and they make me mad , I have to talk about it . ’ |
| 23 | They go here , they go here and they make me dizzy . |
| 24 | Er and she said I 'll ring you ag I said oh dear someone now coming to the door , she said , never mind I 'll ring you on Saturday , so I said alright and er and she lives at Wyndham , Norfolk , my husband 's niece and erm , you see , and then there 's the other one and she said , auntie you 're always so cheerful , I said , well I try to be cheerful because like everybody else I get a little depressed sometimes because , you see , I have no sisters and brothers , I have three elderly cousins who live away and who I , who I see , one was here a fortnight ago er er er my cousin and his wife er , you see , it will be on a Wednesday , a fortnight today , no Thursday , yes , you see , a fortnight ago and they said , we 'll come again an we 've always bought you a bunch of daffodils so we shall come again when the daffodils are and er and they bring me over bits and pieces because er she was a cook and they bring me something nice to eat |
| 25 | Er and she said I 'll ring you ag I said oh dear someone now coming to the door , she said , never mind I 'll ring you on Saturday , so I said alright and er and she lives at Wyndham , Norfolk , my husband 's niece and erm , you see , and then there 's the other one and she said , auntie you 're always so cheerful , I said , well I try to be cheerful because like everybody else I get a little depressed sometimes because , you see , I have no sisters and brothers , I have three elderly cousins who live away and who I , who I see , one was here a fortnight ago er er er my cousin and his wife er , you see , it will be on a Wednesday , a fortnight today , no Thursday , yes , you see , a fortnight ago and they said , we 'll come again an we 've always bought you a bunch of daffodils so we shall come again when the daffodils are and er and they bring me over bits and pieces because er she was a cook and they bring me something nice to eat |
| 26 | They looked at me and they pretend I 'm someone called Franz Kafka . |
| 27 | I did , and they let me run . |
| 28 | I liked working with Ted and Eva , and they let me come and go more or less as I wished . |
| 29 | The next morning someone from the production office turned up and said , ‘ Please can we have our actor back , ’ and they let me go . |
| 30 | ‘ I said I was unfairly handicapped , and they let me do extra Latin instead , ’ she said . |