Example sentences of "they [vb past] i [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I says if they lent me it erm well they might want us to watch it now and lend it to someone else . |
| 2 | When they , when they weighed me I thought I had to have my leg off , I went to the |
| 3 | Whenever they visited me I listened to him reading . |
| 4 | They told me they 'd found the source and they were going to prosecute the offender . |
| 5 | ‘ They told me they could arrange an ‘ accident ’ . |
| 6 | They told me they had a little house not far away from where I lived , and that Dorothy was expecting a baby — twins , the doctor had said . |
| 7 | He 's a sharp operator , adept at playing the angles , continually bouncing gags off the course of a meandering conversation which takes in flotation tanks ( ’ They told me they wanted to recreate the conditions of the womb , but that 's all I need : some jerk in a white coat stabbing me with an ice-pick for half an hour ’ ) : Panama ( ’ Most American casualties over there were self-inflicted , but that 's because we have a lot of Hispanics in the armed services and some guys get confused ; some Hispanics in the armed services and some guys get confused ; some Hispanics shot themselves , they 're that loyal ’ ) ; even , somehow , the British motorway system ( ’ Driving up the M1 ! |
| 8 | They told me they needed the money for legal fees . |
| 9 | They told me they were on holiday today and shyly peeped round great blocks of stone as I climbed on to the hitching post of the sun , the most sacred place in the temple . |
| 10 | ‘ They told me they could sack me , but I do n't care , ’ she said yesterday . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd much rather they told me they 're not going to harm us . ’ |
| 12 | They told me they 'd be useful . " |
| 13 | They told me they were going to take control of the ship and become pirates . |
| 14 | I went downstairs and they told me they had just got married . |
| 15 | Oh yes , they were all fed properly , looked after alright , but they all , they told me they were all pedigrees but I doubt cos I do n't know whether that 's the truth , but they reckon in Poland when things were bad , when they unload them , they 'd make some excuse that one of these pigs got out and run away and course they used to catch it er , somewhere they used to catch it and that was their fee then . |
| 16 | But do n't waste it on me in any case : I would n't believe Six even if they told me they were lying . |
| 17 | In hospital they told me they were going to do a routine examination and that it was going to be a twist in the scrotum or it was going to be a tumour ; and it might be benign or it might be malignant . |
| 18 | She reportedly told a friend : ‘ They assured me she was not seriously ill , they told me she was fine . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , I am sure they told me she was coming out of Doctor Vincentius ’ house . ’ |
| 20 | I 'd done my crying for him the day they told me he was dead . |
| 21 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 22 | Uncle Bean , leaning on a gate watching with the resident farmer , said , ‘ They told me it was out of racing . ’ |
| 23 | They told me it would be O.K. |
| 24 | She said — they told me it would be all over soon and that when it was , I would be — all right . |
| 25 | They told me it was a fake . |
| 26 | ‘ I protested to police at Tennent Street this morning , but they told me it was a divisional reployment . |
| 27 | They told me it was just like following recipes , and it was so I did . |
| 28 | and they told me it was , very , very urgent ! |
| 29 | Well I was supposed to be but erm every single time they arrange it and they either tell me the wrong da well they told me the wrong day last week cos , they told me Tuesd they told me it was Thursday when it , when it was actually Tuesday when I was getting pissed at Scott 's house so erm it was too late by then . |
| 30 | No doubt if I had responded to Hilda and Annie and the rest as they told me I should respond , as they all told me my true nature , my deeper nature was crying out to respond , I would be surrounded today by love and wives and children and the rest . |