Example sentences of "[vb past] i [verb] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite why this put the scrutineers in a dilemma I do n't know , but they asked me to protest to get them off the hook . |
| 2 | They ( Barber ) asked me to come to see them if I was ever in Cornwall . |
| 3 | The DHSS made me go to see them every day — I had a broken bone in my ankle but they still made me go every day ! |
| 4 | She made me promise to destroy them , ‘ if anything ever happens to me ’ , she said . |
| 5 | Other times she made me promise to keep them for ever , to remember her by , and say a prayer She was a bit vague who it was I was to pray to . |
| 6 | Then she made me promise to get them back to her in one piece within a week and sold me two tickets to a Ward Bond Retrospective at her film club in Ponder 's End . |
| 7 | ( I realised I had to cancel them , otherwise I 'd get the balance down a bit , then get clothes fever again . ) |
| 8 | Seeing Derek 's puzzled look , she added : ‘ You mentioned the Spanish Civil War and I 've been thinking about the message the kidnappers told me to use to contact them . ’ |
| 9 | I forgot I 'd got them on and I slipped on the bottom stairs . |
| 10 | They deliberately looked for inconsistencies where they basically knew I 'd told them but two aspects of the truth , in the hope that I 'd blurt out the real truth about something else in my fright and confusion . |
| 11 | ‘ I knew I had killed them . |
| 12 | I remember once we were going to have a lot more crocuses on the way up the drive , and he said , ‘ Look , you decide what you want and I 'll order them , ’ so I decided what I thought would be good , because I knew I had to put them in . |
| 13 | When I auditioned with Mike , he gave me a list of twenty-five songs to work on and I thought I had to learn them all in five days , because we were starting rehearsals only a week later ! |
| 14 | Can you imagine , you know a teacher , I thought I had to tell them every minute detail of these plans . |
| 15 | And then I thought I heard voices once , coming from a long way away , but I could n't work out where they were coming from ; and they were so very faint I almost thought I 'd imagined them . |
| 16 | I sometimes find myself using them yet long years you know when I thought I 'd forgotten them and any younger person just looks at me in amazement and has no idea what I 'm talking about . |
| 17 | A nurse came in and asked for my X-rays and I remembered I had forgotten them . |
| 18 | I got the rest of it out of Vanessa , and I said I had to tell them now . |
| 19 | He said I 've seen them put fifty . |
| 20 | she took out , she said I 've put them away |
| 21 | I 'll tell him or anyone , and I meant it , so he started on about this night at the bowling club , but it was his actions Joy , I want to know who 's coming , we need to know , I thought but why 's he fucking boss me about on my private time , anyway to cut a long story short they booked all this night out and I watched and I waited I thought let them clock that I 'm not going , so then comes a phone call , David was in the bottom office so was the letter shark , and this phone call came over and David shouted up to all of us on the machine who 's going on Thursday night ? |
| 22 | Pig iron you know er pig iron was what they had I 've seen them pouring furnaces pouring it onto the pig beds , and you know when I was a kid when we lived in Caldmore from about half past nine at night all across West Bromwich , Wednesbury all over that area , you 'd see the sky light up and it was due to the pouring of er pouring the pig iron . |