Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 2 | The cops saw me where they thought I should n't be , so they got curious . |
| 3 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 4 | ‘ I said before , I wo n't go where they want me to go . |
| 5 | I must ask those who are more familiar with the sciences to forgive me for any passages where they feel I might be guilty of over simplification . |
| 6 | The gunner of the Fox gave me the final two fingers and I knew the third finger was coming up which meant the " K " gun would be right in my starboard earhole , I put my finger lip and gave the impression I was going to land , whereupon all the Foxes — by this time four or live of them — were given a signal by the leader , and they all turned on their backs and headed where they wanted me to follow . |
| 7 | Where they gave me meat and drink . ’ |
| 8 | Or they call me Ernie . |
| 9 | to be with my friends although they let me sit with me friends so they 're good really so I 'm hoping that I should be able to get back on a Wednesday because er , that 's the only day really I can go , I go to Barn Mead on a Thursday as a rule you see , but yesterday I had to have a day off to go out , I had an invite out |
| 10 | I went back to the dining car to find Oliver and Cathy laying the tables for dinner , and I helped them automatically , although they said I need n't . |
| 11 | They never would have initiated it before , although they knew I was gay . |
| 12 | Although they give me a good start for next issue . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Everybody likes you better than they like me said Manyara , the elder sister . |
| 15 | Also , I 've decided not to brush down the table or re-mark it or clean the balls : I reckon a few bad kicks and some low-lying grit on the baize will unsettle him more than they will me . |
| 16 | sober he can do more than they do I mean i that ai n't the sort bloke you wan na lose , and I 'm , when he balls and shouts at them well he gets on your nerves really but at the end of the day I 'll you know , I 'll put up with it . |
| 17 | If I came out of the changing-room with a bin-liner round my waist and a lampshade on my head he 'd say that they suited me . |
| 18 | But I have more friends who are willing to admit publicly that they know me ! |
| 19 | They were a decent lot and I was glad that they accepted me despite my anomalous position . |
| 20 | These passions are disinterested , in the sense that they excite me to help or harm you as in yourself attractive or repulsive to me , irrespective of further advantage to myself ; they treat you not as means but as end , if only as a negative end . |
| 21 | ‘ The only problem is that they taught me to swear like a trooper . ’ |
| 22 | So I usually leave a er sheet of paper on the table and if you 're , if you 're interested in getting a free brochure what I shall do at the end of the course is to send this off er together with one of the cards that they let me have and er in due time you 'll get a free Saga magazine . |
| 23 | It 's important that they keep me abreast of what 's happening , paper C. |
| 24 | Yes Chairman , of the hundred and sixty thousand plus cost , erm , part of the contribution by the major servicing committee , and I understand that they advised me the balance has been made from local contributions , and charitable sources . |
| 25 | Er , you know , well of course they were young girls and er , you see and there 's , there was nothing we could do , you see , and , and er , anyway the doctor , as soon as the doctor did come , it was because th the young staff er they had to , they took her away to the mortuary , you see and erm then I , I had to carry on with her work and , and do the best I could and mine as well , you see , but of course er the Manager he appointed another Assistant Manager to go and collect the money which I used to do got it in because I took her times of duty as well and er , you see , and then after that er after several weeks I suppose it was , I do n't know how many because I forget how many , that they appointed me as Manageress and I was in that position for twelve years , you see and |
| 26 | Did you know that they exiled me — me ! |
| 27 | It 's just that they reminded me so much of the poor child my husband killed . |
| 28 | The upshot of it all was that they wanted me to ask Derek would he come in for a sperm count . |
| 29 | ‘ Oddly enough the selectors only told me shortly before the match that they wanted me to play left centre so that ‘ Obbo ’ could get some of the ball , ’ Cranmer reminisced . |
| 30 | Then word came that they wanted me to do a test ! |