Example sentences of "they [vb past] i [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 2 | Anyway , one of them told me to stay and gave me a raffle ticket . |
| 3 | One of them slugged me to shut me up . ’ |
| 4 | They expected me to live on supplementary benefit so I was having to work the street , trying to get my house together . |
| 5 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |
| 6 | And then they got me to sign a form , they did n't say what it was for . |
| 7 | When Ivy went to see her she said oh Mrs Mr came to see me yesterday afternoon he brought another gentleman with him , a nice gentleman so I she said I think they were taking the census , they got me to sign a paper . |
| 8 | But they did , they got me to change , because I suppose all the words up there , and I 'm gon na find three most significant ones that and change , er , because while you influence somebody to turn from what they were doing , probably not too often , but it 's usually about something , when you think about the examples that you brought along , and you knew all about change . |
| 9 | They asked me to report to them every week , but I did n't go , and they stopped my benefit . |
| 10 | They asked me to see if you 'd like me to bring you some . ’ |
| 11 | So they asked me to go away and come back again in a week which gave me breathing space and time at least to learn it properly . |
| 12 | They asked me to go and stay with them , away from the place where the burglary had taken place . |
| 13 | They asked me to go there for an interview , and from that they recommended a therapist who would see me at her home . |
| 14 | And er erm they saw me on the you know television programme and they asked me to go go to the school and |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They asked me to join them , but I did n't want to … |
| 17 | Kelly Johnson had just left and so they asked me to join . |
| 18 | A group of friends was going to St Servan near St Malo and they asked me to join them . |
| 19 | They asked me to set up a buffet for a press launch , then they said it was for me ! ’ |
| 20 | I was tired but I kept on doing it and doing it ; they asked me to stop but I would n't . |
| 21 | Er he 's gone to Barnsley , cos they asked me to ask for this , gone to Barnsley . |
| 22 | They asked me to take the children for a full medical . |
| 23 | Her first commission came about quite casually : ‘ My husband and I had gone to stay with friends and they asked me to do a charcoal drawing of their Dachshund , Rosy . |
| 24 | He knows that we want to hear about his experience of Neighbours — ‘ They asked me to do Neighbours The Cyber Series , but I could n't go that far … feeling what it 's like to be in Jim Robinson 's shirt , what a waste of technology ’ — that we want tales of drugs and tripping , and an outsider 's observations on British cultural mistakes ( the shell suit ) . |
| 25 | I says I want to learn sommat so I went to and I do n't know what it was , whether it was my attitude , but they , they asked me to do this and I was so good at it , so they started finding jobs for me and it was at and I was anxious for knowledge , and I tell you took anything on , which is important and the big firms did n't . |
| 26 | They asked me to come along and I thought I would because I thought children might respond more to me because they recognise me from television . |
| 27 | ‘ They asked me to tell you , ’ Adam lied . |
| 28 | He , they left the er they 'd gone said leave it in the conservatory , then he went out and and and and er shut his conservatory so they could n't leave it so they asked me to keep it for him . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | As some of the other legionnaires could n't write very well , they asked me to help them with their letters . |