Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb base] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they put me to millinery . |
| 2 | So they put me in a detention centre for six months . |
| 3 | When I was running away they put me in an approved school for girls run by nuns . |
| 4 | Like they do me at home ! |
| 5 | In the beginning they demanded small change , but now they ask me for £2 or £3 every time they see me . |
| 6 | These people crawled into my head last night and now they control me like ghosts . |
| 7 | ‘ But the board know when contracts are up and now they expect me to just sign for a year . |
| 8 | Often they ask me for requests , and sometimes they will come over and ask about a piece of music I 've just played . |
| 9 | Ah well they put me on the top rate of pay , which was quite good , thirty five shilling a week . |
| 10 | Sometimes they confuse me with the hon. Member for Walthamstow ( Mr. Summerson ) — I am the hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford , and unemployment in my constituency has not risen to quite the extent that he suggests . |
| 11 | I waited there for what seemed ages , and then they put me in a room on my own and told me to put on a paper gown . |
| 12 | Then they put me in a room and asked me questions . |
| 13 | People see me in a certain way at school , as someone outspoken and good at English ; then they see me with my head covered , and suddenly they seem to be thinking : submissive . |
| 14 | And it just goes on keeps going on another night another nightmare and then back to the interview room again and the tape machine again and more questions about Stromefirry-nofirry and Jersey and flights and that 's when they tell me about the other one that 's when they say oh by the way your best friend Andy is dead blown up in the hotel when it burned down ; probably beaten to death first head stoved in but of course you probably know all that because you did that too , did n't you ? |
| 15 | What the sponsor wants we try to see he gets , and that 's why a great deal of my time is spent being seen where they want me to be seen , like tonight 's cocktail party . |