Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] i [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 2 | I heard the ambulance and the police cars and I saw them putting the man into the ambulance and trying to resuscitate him and driving away . |
| 3 | They snapped like burned-through twigs and I threw them away . |
| 4 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 5 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 6 | And er she says Jean I swear to God she says if she comes over near my door , I 've told Jim she says , I , I 'm ready for her I 'll beat her round that square and she said I 'm not like that but she says that 's just the way she says , and she hurt my kids when I sent them Easter eggs over , doing that she says , that really galled me , she says cos they were hurting my kids rather than me . |
| 7 | Stok joined in the last three words as I said them , and then he laughed So loud that I thought he would shake some of the cracked tiles off the wall . |
| 8 | An orange circle of light , the beam from his torch , darted round the tent walls , there was the jingle of keys and I felt them cold in my hand . |
| 9 | But then I had another er one within er two years and I had them both fairly quickly . |
| 10 | But I have made the films as I wanted them . |
| 11 | and could report upon them in their own ethical statements , but they could not object to my ethical statements as I meant them , if I have the relevant feelings . |
| 12 | I thought it might hurt the boys ’ feelings if I told them we think Miguelito is better-looking than they are . ’ |
| 13 | And I came and , and I did n't think Harlow was for me because I , it was all very built up and lots of roundabouts but the people , the partners were so lovely and er I saw some of the patients and I thought they were very lovely too , so this is where I 've been . |
| 14 | Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus . |
| 15 | and they had all these great pads you know and I had all these maternity pads because I needed them you know I had to pad up and I had to and I felt so embarrassed |
| 16 | ‘ I was afraid of the Africans because I thought they would take over my farm . |
| 17 | Seems ages since I saw them . |
| 18 | I 've had to go back up in to him , yeah , but I do n't know what happened last night , I do n't know whether he was not quite tired enough , erm , he must of got up as soon as I put him down and started sort of moaning then I went into the girls and I sorted them out he started screaming he did , so I had to go to him in and lay him down and making him lay down |
| 19 | And , and you think to yourself oh we 've seen everything , but I used to get pleasure in taking somebody to the potteries because I knew they had n't seen it and it would be like ooh , when they got there , you could see the shock , the surprise in their eyes when they went in there |
| 20 | I did have a load of that tops and I took them all down the . |
| 21 | My grandmother gave my a set of oil paints when I was four and she got really angry because they were wee tiny tubes and I squeezed them all out in one go and started painting like Frank Auerbach . |
| 22 | My grandmother gave my a set of oil paints when I was four and she got really angry because they were wee tiny tubes and I squeezed them all out in one go and started painting like Frank Auerbach . |
| 23 | I was put on the road with Lynyrd Skynyrd when they thought I was getting too big for my DMs , but they were real wild men and I liked them a lot and we got on very well . ’ |
| 24 | They thought I meant for five seconds but I made them practise holding their tone for twenty or thirty seconds . |
| 25 | I did n't lose her till she was over twenty but So but I think it was desperation because if I 'd had money I should 've had a house full of children because I loved them , you see , I 've always loved children . |
| 26 | They laughed like a couple of schoolgirls , hands fluttering to their mouths like butterflies when I told them of my encounter with the priest . |
| 27 | Put against the letters that I wrote they 've all been sent out . |
| 28 | I usually keep him in when I wash his clothes and I got them special for the cold weather so he should be all right . |
| 29 | I asked for certain research facilities and I got them . |
| 30 | It was n't quite chalk and string on the garage floor because I had a drawing board at Folkingham , but the tin-bashers and fitters would look over my shoulder and make parts as I drew them . |