Example sentences of "they [verb] i [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They forget I took the job on the understanding that management of a national team can only be part-time employment . |
| 2 | They say I had the vanity to suppose that I might marry him . |
| 3 | They say I had the vanity to go down to Croisset and make an embarrassing scene on his doorstep . |
| 4 | They say I had the vanity to suppose that he and I might one day share the authorship of some literary work . |
| 5 | Therefore , next time they spawned I left the eggs where they were until I had a new tank prepared for the adults . |
| 6 | Whilst they fished I explored the shores , haunting the hides , marvelling at the variety of bird , plant and animal life . |
| 7 | Before we left , they suggested I returned the next day to undergo a ‘ lymphangiogram ’ and explained the procedure . |