Example sentences of "they [verb] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er erm they saw me on the you know television programme and they asked me to go go to the school and |
| 2 | If they asked me to say thank you very much at the end of a shit interview I would n't , and if they did n't like it , I 'd probably leave . |
| 3 | They asked me to help dress the models who wandered around showing clothes to the ladies having afternoon tea in the restaurant , and after a bit I did some modelling myself . |
| 4 | Quite why this put the scrutineers in a dilemma I do n't know , but they asked me to protest to get them off the hook . |
| 5 | ‘ They asked me to consider standing myself , ’ he says , ‘ but I 'm 67 and I thought that was too old . ’ |
| 6 | I just find those subject the easiest to deal with : on the one hand , they 're the most tangible feelings I have to pull out of myself ; on the other , they make me want to make a stronger statement when I ultimately do that . |
| 7 | How many men do they think I 've got ? ’ |
| 8 | Where would they think I 'd gone to ? |
| 9 | As I say , they expect I 've got music , it 's not gon na come as a shock to them . |
| 10 | They found I did have river blindness . |
| 11 | ‘ It took quite a while to stitch me up , but everything 's all right now , although they say I 've lost a lot of blood from the placental bleed . ’ |
| 12 | I ca n't afford it but they say I 've got to pay it so they 'll take me to court . |
| 13 | ‘ Mummy and daddy and my brother Mike and they say I 've got to go with them ! ’ |
| 14 | They believed I had to report to a camp near Dover . |
| 15 | Then they let me get dressed , gave me a pair of slippers , because we were n't allowed to wear shoes , and said I had to wait to see the Governess . |
| 16 | As the Sundance Kid said to Butch Cassidy , as they were being hotly pursued by a posse of Pinkerton detectives ‘ If they paid me to stop raiding banks , what they paid them to stop me robbing banks , I 'd stop robbing banks . ’ |
| 17 | and the new baby , remember when I told you about Andrew my cousin , my favourite cousin they reckoned I 'd fancied him ? |
| 18 | and the new baby , remember when I told you about Andrew my cousin , my favourite cousin they reckoned I 'd fancied him ? |
| 19 | His pal his workmate was retired and a few months after , Arthur died , so it left me the one and the owners of the property , they give me notice to quit and no messing about er and when I talked to them , they give me twelve months , rate free , to erm get out . |
| 20 | Johann stopped for a minute , but then he added , ‘ If they know I 've told you this , they 'll kill me . |
| 21 | They wo n't take me on once they know I 've got a disability . ’ |
| 22 | They know I planned to attack them . ’ |
| 23 | Will doctors give up trying to save me if they know I want to donate my organs ? |
| 24 | They say they feel I 've gone into their living room . |
| 25 | If they find I 've escaped they wo n't be worried . |
| 26 | ‘ Absolutely no one — they 'll react as soon as they guess I 've left the country . |
| 27 | They watched me trying to fly but I could not . |
| 28 | The village school takes pupils in January and September each year , and before they go I like to get together with them to have a talk , teach them how to put on socks and shoes , and other things they might need to know . |
| 29 | They claim I 've threatened people , trying to mek them strike . |
| 30 | ‘ They knew I had seen Mina , too . |