Example sentences of "they [vb past] that i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some of them figured that I played Headless Horseman on bass — y'know … the weirdest concepts ! |
| 2 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 3 | All of these meetings required careful preparation and I was relieved when my election team agreed with my general tactics , although they added that I must make myself available for private talks with any colleague who asked to see me . |
| 4 | I think they noticed that I did not follow their example . |
| 5 | After looking at me carefully , they decided that I was a creature outside the laws of nature . |
| 6 | I volunteered for the Grenadier Guards , well I had to go to Chelsea Barracks and after a week there , they decided that I was n't medically fit for them , although the doctor or the M O at the Ipswich Recruiting Officer said , oh yes , you 're A one you 'll be fine for the guard but cos I was fairly well built , stature wise . |
| 7 | What what we must n't do with Honey and Munnford is just take things at face value because what Honey and Munnford did is they actually carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they decided that I mean they carried out interviews with er lots of people thousand and they had a general study where they carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they said was that in particular with the reflector a l some , some scores are naturally higher than others and that what we ca n't do is just sort of look at these and say well this is the highest score , therefore I 'm much more of a , of a reflector than I have of , I am of the other three , all we actually need to do is compare our scores against the general norms . |
| 8 | erm I suppose that would mean if they felt they were taking up so much of their time that they could n't do what they considered to be their job properly , and if they felt that I think the parents were persisting and insisting that their own children got more attention than the school could really afford to give them if they were going to be fair to everyone . |
| 9 | ‘ They knew that I liked girls and if I had a choice , I would rather be talking to the girls than doing my homework . ’ |
| 10 | To balance that out they knew that I loved them . " |
| 11 | Well they knew that I was a graduate in erm , they had two , they had a , a lab manager and an assistant , and they both went sick at the same time , and er , they asked me if I 'd do it . |
| 12 | I recovered quickly , I 'm glad to say , but I could n't leave because they insisted that I stayed to lunch . |
| 13 | On one occasion I was round at a neighbour 's house and despite my warnings that it could get rather messy , they insisted that I show them how Dawn fed . |
| 14 | The nicest thing was when they printed that I had a tattoo of Reg Varney on my chest . |
| 15 | They said that I had torn a policeman 's tunic . |
| 16 | But when the immigration people came I got a letter , and they said that I could stay while they finished their inquiries . |
| 17 | They said that I should return it in its box , with the receipt . |
| 18 | Well I stayed on as an orderly because they said that I could erm I could marry because er I was n't erm classed as erm tt Er I would n't pass it on to me husband , so I could marry , provided I I prevented having children for er five years , that you had to see the Doctor until The medical Doctor at Nottingham , until he pronounced you clear , you see ? |
| 19 | ‘ They said that I had enough equity to qualify for a multi-currency loan . |
| 20 | They said that I was too much of myself . |
| 21 | Poppy dissolved into a quivering heap when staff tried to lead her out of the cage , so they suggested that I tried . |
| 22 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 23 | Therefore , they supposed that I had drowned , and that the Blefuscan ships were attacking . |