Example sentences of "[det] [conj] i [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er the market traders er are up in arms about this and I found them er in the process of trying to get a petition together but it it was n't put together right , they were just getting people to sign blank pieces of paper . |
| 2 | Derbyshire folk may query the authenticity of this but I defy them not to enjoy the results . |
| 3 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 4 | London Irish coach George Hook , who has , in fact , made a player out of Higgins , believes there is a cultural problem : ‘ I do n't think our players drink very much but I imagine they drink more than their counterparts in other rugby countries . |
| 5 | We were using it for drunk driving offenders and repeat traffic offenders , not so much because I felt they were the only people who were appropriate for it , but because we wanted to make sure we started with a group who were not likely to get into major trouble should the project not work out . |
| 6 | But his questions were at once crucifying me as much as I knew they were of help . |
| 7 | You should actually say , ‘ They need me as much as I need them . ’ |
| 8 | Mr Essex says music is a two-way thing : ‘ My pupils inspire me as much as I inspire them . ’ |
| 9 | Now things like erm , well one of my old favourites Arran Pilot i if you dig it out when it 's young , then of course it stays as it should , cos it 's a very very waxy potato but , but I can remember growing varieties like Majestic and things like that and I mean they would never fall , they would never fall in the water but they make good chips er of the modern varieties I think I 'd go for er Kondor with a K er which is a very very good potato and does stay as it is i in the ground but one other thing I think also comes into it . |
| 10 | ‘ You will swear to the state of these before I mended them ? ’ he said to her . |
| 11 | well we say that but I mean they 're not really Derbies . |
| 12 | Oh I do n't know about that but I think they 're likely on the same |
| 13 | The red buses and the mauve ones and all that I mean they |
| 14 | The song is a tribute to people , how I 'm grateful to them all and I love them and I love everyone . |
| 15 | They 're very pleased at that because I mean they obviously found it to be useful , erm we proved it to be useful and it 's nice to see them all taking on this responsibility now , now and doing it , because that 's all progress . |
| 16 | I viewed A&R men the same way and when I met them I realised that they knew even less than I thought they knew . |