Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] i [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found that I put them back into their correct order with ease and , for the first and last time , achieved some distinction in the marking . |
| 2 | And put them your side since we found that I did them for you . |
| 3 | I want that somebody found and I want them talking . ’ |
| 4 | And as part of the deal , I had some petty cash with which to buy them all sandwiches and coffee so they could get changed or dressed while they ate and I took them to the next job if they had one , or wherever they wanted to go . |
| 5 | Mandeville still sulked in the hall whilst the old beldames in Southgate 's chamber cackled with laughter and asked if I wanted them to wash me ? |
| 6 | There was no question about it — people knew who I was and if they did n't they asked and I told them . |
| 7 | So that if it happened that I died they would be able to make a campaign issue of it . |
| 8 | Right , David , you said you 'd been approached by another insurance company , er , I could obviously say , I recommended Abbey Life , and I 'm tied to that , but I actually joined because I think they 're a particularly good company , in that what , in the use they make of the money that I 'm paying , actually goes , performs very well . |
| 9 | My responsibilities vanished but I think they suspected that if I were sacked there would be a public fuss so they had to proceed by stealth . |
| 10 | What what we must n't do with Honey and Munnford is just take things at face value because what Honey and Munnford did is they actually carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they decided that I mean they carried out interviews with er lots of people thousand and they had a general study where they carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they said was that in particular with the reflector a l some , some scores are naturally higher than others and that what we ca n't do is just sort of look at these and say well this is the highest score , therefore I 'm much more of a , of a reflector than I have of , I am of the other three , all we actually need to do is compare our scores against the general norms . |
| 11 | And erm later on let's see f when the war started and I mean they wanted cheap labour and all that , there was room for apprentice . |
| 12 | I worked hard all week and so felt that I deserved them , I suppose . |
| 13 | To balance that out they knew that I loved them . " |
| 14 | On one occasion I was round at a neighbour 's house and despite my warnings that it could get rather messy , they insisted that I show them how Dawn fed . |
| 15 | I felt if I mentioned them [ the symptoms ] they 'd think I was skiving or malingering or being a hypochondriac or neurotic , and I was n't going to be labelled as those things . ’ |
| 16 | the erm , you know they had some sausage left over , so I thought if I cook them then you know , if you wanted to we could cook the ham |
| 17 | I do n't put a meaning on them for other people , they must form their own ideas ; I know what I meant when I made them , but it may not be the same thing for other people . |
| 18 | I nearly died when I saw them . |
| 19 | I truly had no knowledge of what they contained when I brought them . |
| 20 | They all came back through their agents and complained and I told them to forget it . |
| 21 | It was a pity Wallace got injured when he did as I thought they were begining to hit it off together . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She said well at least I , you know she said if I thought they 'd get only pass I would n't put them in . |
| 24 | that I had and I show them . |
| 25 | Yeah that 's what I said he said no it did n't come from me he said but I think they did used to sell something like that . |
| 26 | With the growth in pre-marital sexual experience which has taken place , it might be supposed that selection of a long-term partner on these lines would be easier ; but human beings still have a tendency to believe that everything will be all right in the end and a surprising number have said to me , " things did n't go too well before we married but I thought they 'd work out . " |
| 27 | yeah , and she said erm she said they were n't so bad to me she said when I told them who I was living with . |
| 28 | Not like the covenant which I made when I took them by the hand To bring them out of the land of Egypt — my covenant which they broke Although I was a husband to them , says the Lord . |
| 29 | we have had a letter back and it 's exactly the same as I got when I rang them up , if they just say it must not exceed a certain amount and they wo n't be tied down to tell me . |
| 30 | And I was upstairs see so I sat and I watched them . |