Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb base] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they ask me for hardly any rent , which is the other nice thing about it . ’ |
| 2 | Er and she said I 'll ring you ag I said oh dear someone now coming to the door , she said , never mind I 'll ring you on Saturday , so I said alright and er and she lives at Wyndham , Norfolk , my husband 's niece and erm , you see , and then there 's the other one and she said , auntie you 're always so cheerful , I said , well I try to be cheerful because like everybody else I get a little depressed sometimes because , you see , I have no sisters and brothers , I have three elderly cousins who live away and who I , who I see , one was here a fortnight ago er er er my cousin and his wife er , you see , it will be on a Wednesday , a fortnight today , no Thursday , yes , you see , a fortnight ago and they said , we 'll come again an we 've always bought you a bunch of daffodils so we shall come again when the daffodils are and er and they bring me over bits and pieces because er she was a cook and they bring me something nice to eat |
| 3 | family and they put me onto valium , but having worked in psychiatric I knew the results of valium , so I I gradually broke them down and got off them but for six full months I could n't sleep |
| 4 | He called a doctor and they put me to bed . |
| 5 | Er , I actually had two stillborn babies , one one year after each other and they put me on Valium and it did n't do me any good at all ! |
| 6 | Anyway , one day I was messing about playing hide and seek , hiding from the officers , and they put me on report . |
| 7 | So I started there and they put me on a month 's trial and I dithered about about this month , whether I was good enough , and they 'd forgotten all about it , by the end of month , trial . |
| 8 | They took me along and they put me into this dormitory . |
| 9 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 10 | I had just turned sixteen and they put me in this place that was really for dossers . |
| 11 | And they put me in the banqueting room , erm but we could n't , d' ya know . |
| 12 | And they expect me to co be coming in from here , |
| 13 | Well that 's what everybody sings to me when them and they meet me for the first time or get introduced to me . |
| 14 | ‘ And they reccommend me to other people . |
| 15 | I was the first British person most of them had met and they see me as a bridge to the outside world , ’ she said . |
| 16 | If they throw me in prison , at least I know that with Famagusta and maybe a rodent or two from my cell , I can have a meal fit for a Borgia . ’ |
| 17 | Of course , if they get me on the phone , I 'm lost . |
| 18 | If they send me to Rampton , what does that make me ? ’ ’ |
| 19 | ‘ If they contact me on Middlesbrough 827594 or at 14 Aspen Drive , off Sycamore Road , I will arrange for their views to be heard , ’ she said . |
| 20 | ‘ Clients have to be — and are — aware that I 've got a young family and that if they ring me after 5pm there are likely to be children screaming for their tea in the background . ’ |
| 21 | And erm I did n't get the actual job I went for but they put me on the , on the relief register so that I go round to different people 's homes or different big hospitals and different Mencap homes relieving people when they 're on holiday or if they 're short of staff or something like that . |
| 22 | But they put me in mind of trees in November . |
| 23 | But they accuse me of lying in my book . |
| 24 | I 'll do it because they ask me to , but I do n't feel , like , ‘ Oh God , I 'm a big star signing autographs . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I kill because they pay me to ; |
| 27 | And when they lay me in my wedding dress on that table , I 'll have my revenge on him ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I started to come round when they put me on the slab . |
| 29 | ‘ You know , when they stop me in the street , at least half of them call me Mr Darcy . |
| 30 | Mind you , some do a double-take when they see me in the flesh . |