Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dancer , on her way back to the United States , took Dana in her VW to Lisbon , Porto and Bilbao , where I met them , then we drove all the way to Paris . |
| 2 | Then wasps ; a cloud of them hovered around my Virginia creeper where I suspected they had a nest . |
| 3 | Although I had them , I did n't have anyone . |
| 4 | I did n't think too much about this at the time , although I knew they usually only had money for their ‘ little pleasures ’ after they 'd done the washing and pawned it . |
| 5 | Three of them floated in a sea of garlic and tomato and although I found them no better than chewy chicken my wife told me they were well up to scratch . |
| 6 | No-one said much to me at tea , although I caught them looking at me sometimes as they sipped at their mugs . |
| 7 | It was n't till years later that I realised they had n't even remembered to ask if f was a lesbian . |
| 8 | Playing tunes that bring a smile to my face and a sentimental tear to my eye , for the last time that I heard them was the day of the first Gittel 's wedding . |
| 9 | Put against the letters that I wrote they 've all been sent out . |
| 10 | Well old was , was er absolute er you 'd never think anybody 'd would buy anything out of his shop , er my father went in for something once and he , and he said you can see them hanging up ca n't you , I mean er salesmanship was on unheard of as far as he was concerned they were there , why ask him if he 'd got any , but erm course you must remember I was only a little boy I mean I can remember all this , I took it all in but I would n't say that I knew them er I knew Miss , from the grocer 's shop she was a Sunday School teacher , and er the Sunday School used to be at Road School we used to have a Sunday School there and a Mr used to take this . |
| 11 | So thickly was the snow falling that I knew they could only just have been made , probably within the past five minutes . |
| 12 | ‘ He gave me six points for this country so clearly that I saw them as if on a black-board and could simply copy them down . ’ |
| 13 | I started off at the s at the start I was er I was getting mouth ulcers , and then well I did n't get them to the severity that I got them with the sulfasalazine |
| 14 | I got your first letter to Nanking on Saturday , and had plenty of letters at Sian — I 'm not sure that I got them all , in particular I got a letter from Tom sent on March 23 , but I 'm not sure whether that 's the one you referred to , anyway I 'm grateful to you all for keeping me in touch . |
| 15 | To give Mrs for the erm but do n't tell anybody that I got them , you know . |
| 16 | Er and the only reason that I thought they may have been favourable , would have been based on the principle of fair play , but then erm when you think of er companies who are making profits from year to year which were in excess of the previous years , then by the time three years expired , our members could have been in a loss situation , if indeed they had n't gone forward and argued the case at domestic level . |
| 17 | I said that I thought they were wrong ; but that if that was their reason for declining to serve I could only accept it and be sorry . |
| 18 | I worked hard all week and so felt that I deserved them , I suppose . |
| 19 | They must have wrecked the car to make sure that I understood they meant business . ’ |
| 20 | He maintained his interest until the end , bequeathing to Christ 's Hospital £20 ‘ which they owe me that I lent them ’ , with an additional £6 13s. 4d. , besides £20 each to St Bartholomew 's and St Thomas 's . |
| 21 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 22 | I remember thinking that I wished they would . |
| 23 | So that if it happened that I died they would be able to make a campaign issue of it . |
| 24 | Also that I described them in car on way home as five most grotesque examples of humanity this side of the swamps of Lousiana . |
| 25 | Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself . |
| 26 | And put them your side since we found that I did them for you . |
| 27 | When I saw the pictures , I could n't deny that I found them arousing . |
| 28 | It was precisely because the measures in the social chapter would have damaged first employment prospects and secondly our competitiveness against Japan and the United States that I found them unacceptable . |
| 29 | I thought it was n't fair that I should begin to show when I was barely into my fourth month , and I got angry with my clothes , as if it were their fault that I pulled them out of shape . |
| 30 | To balance that out they knew that I loved them . " |