Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stacked the papers carefully and replaced them where I had found them . |
| 2 | Changez and Jamila sat apart , and although I tried to catch them looking at each other , I can guarantee that not a single surreptitious glance was exchanged by the future bed-mates . |
| 3 | Now that I 'd seen them together like that I started to have fantasies of being invited to watch them together , or to take photographs of them . |
| 4 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 5 | I suddenly realised that there were all these great black players around in Louisiana , and that I 'd missed them completely ! |
| 6 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 7 | Not that I 'd told them about Chris , but they 'd suspected . |
| 8 | Of course the main thing about the shoes was that I had to wear them all the time . |
| 9 | She did n't realise , you see , that I had followed them , that I had seen them here together — and knew what they were planning . |
| 10 | She did n't realise , you see , that I had followed them , that I had seen them here together — and knew what they were planning . |
| 11 | But I do now sometimes wish that I had given them more time when I did have them . ’ |
| 12 | I WAS really only a bystander in the tragedy of young Mr and Mrs McLeod ; it was not really my business , although it could be said that I had known them both — had seen them about — for most of their lives . |
| 13 | I forgot that I had left them there , ’ she said , and then , ‘ Oh , Dr Neil , you did n't … ? ’ |
| 14 | I read both books this year and found them so interesting and closely related , that I decided to use them for my coursework . |
| 15 | It was important to me that I did tell them individually because on their own I felt I could get their attention and having to explain why I felt like this , but more than that , I wanted them to fully understand that all of a sudden I was n't a lesbian whose name was Carla — I was still Carla , except that I just had different feelings . |
| 16 | They exclaimed and condoled , with — once I had assured them that nothing serious had happened to my brother — a rather charming mixture of sympathy for me and pleasure in the excitement of the news . |
| 17 | Once I 'd seen them , I realized I had to get to her before they did . ’ |
| 18 | What we gave you is the time they come and the next weekend they were back again , and I 'd warned them several times and in the end I said look forget it , and I had it , you know , the works gone off , erm , and as far as I 'm concerned it 's Wednesday nights , I 've really got to , and the price I started to pay , is no longer worth it to me . |
| 19 | And I 'd got them here and I thought well I do n't know what to do with them and I b b interested in I 'm interested in going back in time , I 'll go anywhere where I can see something and I 'd been over there and they 'd got some Home Guard stuff in a case , only a small show , and I asked them if they 'd like it and they said yes . |
| 20 | I 've got , you gave me some last time and I 'd got them the week before , so I 've got enough . |
| 21 | I 've had mine done twice , mine done twice , mm , the police were up the other day lying in ambush , and I 'd spotted them and phoned the local police station and said there 's men lurking in the bushes of are they policemen ? , she said yes madam , they 're policemen . |
| 22 | and then I had to work with these people and I knew that that was the kind of way that they were operating and I had to teach them by the way I worked but in fact it was okay to admit that we do make mistakes . |
| 23 | It struck me that Jenny , my daughter , had said similar words to me years ago , and I had ignored them . |
| 24 | Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there . |
| 25 | Right , a few problems yesterday , a forklift and trailer keys not being signed in and I had taking them home . |
| 26 | And I had to clean them and I had to get a bucket of water and sluice it down with a hard broom and . |
| 27 | True , everyone had hidden their supplies — buried them in the tobacco patch or the bottom of the grain chest — and I had to convince them that I was n't a forester . |
| 28 | My poor old feet did suffer and I had to have them sorted out not so long ago . |
| 29 | Perhaps not as bad as Buff , because the animal had only been there for a second or two and I had told them it was a robot . |
| 30 | So I worked down here and nights up there preparing it and all round this , this place was coat hooks and that , where they all hung their things and I had to knock them down , you know what I mean , and fix me own benches up and er I 'd got a little treadle lather and er sufficient for me to start . |