Example sentences of "and i [verb] [to-vb] them " in BNC.

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1 I used to bring them home and then , well father and me used to slaughter them on the Monday , you see and perhaps a bullock on the Monday and every Wedn every Monday morning the men from the farm , cos he had a farm , you see , used to bring perhaps twenty bullocks up through the street and he used to pick one out to kill , every Monday .
2 and then I had to work with these people and I knew that that was the kind of way that they were operating and I had to teach them by the way I worked but in fact it was okay to admit that we do make mistakes .
3 Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there .
4 And I had to clean them and I had to get a bucket of water and sluice it down with a hard broom and .
5 True , everyone had hidden their supplies — buried them in the tobacco patch or the bottom of the grain chest — and I had to convince them that I was n't a forester .
6 My poor old feet did suffer and I had to have them sorted out not so long ago .
7 So I worked down here and nights up there preparing it and all round this , this place was coat hooks and that , where they all hung their things and I had to knock them down , you know what I mean , and fix me own benches up and er I 'd got a little treadle lather and er sufficient for me to start .
8 Many , many children died , and I had to bury them all .
9 No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow .
10 And I had to cross them
11 I had to ask a librarian and I managed to use them , but it is an advantage to know how to use them yourself .
12 No , no I , I do n't know how but there was two cars that was , that was er behind me and I managed to avoid them but I do n't know how .
13 Anyone that 's travelling , and I prefer to call them travellers rather than tramps or anything else , but anywhere they can creep in that 's great , I think .
14 Over the summer , the Secretary of State and I met to encourage them to adopt best practices in dealings with their tenants .
15 ‘ There are least three shops in Norwich I really like , and I tend to ring them in advance and say ‘ I 'm coming in for half an hour .
16 My parents only live about five miles away and I try to see them about twice a week .
17 and they were losing and I went to spur them on .
18 At last I had five pounds — but when my father and I went to buy them we were told that they cost fifteen pounds , a considerable sum of money to an eight-year-old , and way beyond my means .
19 My hon. Friend the Member for Thanet , North ( Mr. Gale ) and I intend to increase them .
20 Odom said : ‘ A lot of people doubt my ability and I intend to prove them wrong . ’
21 I got to know the blobs and wiggles in that rough circle that looked like a sample from an oil slick , until I could draw them blindfold , and I began to visualize them inside me .
22 I 've got some names and I want to use them to do a deal . ’
23 There are outright racists holding Tory membership cards and I want to see them out of the party . ’
24 There are four key ideas in that sentence , and I want to underline them for a few more minutes .
25 ‘ Then one night Hugo and Jebb ( The Mouse 's twanging Boothby twins ) went there for a quiet beer and the DJ was going , ‘ I 've heard that a couple of Jacob 's Mouse are here and I want to tell them to get off their high horse and come down to play here .
26 Suppose a white man should come to me and say ‘ Joseph , I like your horses , and I want to buy them . ’
27 ‘ I want my kids to know their grandparents , aunts and uncles and I want to keep them English . ’
28 ‘ I want my kids to know their grandparents , aunts and uncles and I want to keep them English . ’
29 And I want to know them , know your family , walk into your house as if it were my house .
30 I 've got these real bad spots of industrial lubricant on the trenchcoat and I want to get them out before they sink right in . ’
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