Example sentences of "they [verb] i [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they got me this lovely velvet one . |
| 2 | There was a pile of really filthy-looking blankets on the bed , they got me some sheets and a towel , and I managed to get an extra pillow because of my asthma . |
| 3 | eighty pound if it 's not one thing you know it 's fortnight ago from Co-Op it 's forty one P a packet , went last week it was forty six P a packet , so Richard and Angela went the other day for nan and they got me some at same time , she leant me the money , yeah , cos I was absolutely broke , gone back down again to forty one |
| 4 | I miss it , I missed it on Sunday , they bring me yorkshire puddings in |
| 5 | So if they made me redundant or whatever I know all the ins and outs . |
| 6 | Sometimes I took speed — ‘ blues ’ , little blue tablets — to keep me awake , but they made me depressed , they made my testicles shrivel up and I kept thinking I was getting a heart attack . |
| 7 | They made me welcome and gave up their time to talk freely and openly about everything that had happened to them . |
| 8 | I would n't care if they made me dazed |
| 9 | I stood there , I could n't say anything , he made me furious , they made me furious and anyhow I was ten times more embarrassed than furious . |
| 10 | They asked me first of all why I paint on paper and I 'm using older to paint on . |
| 11 | They asked me personal questions that I could not even repeat here today . |
| 12 | I definitely could n't afford that , so I took it back to the Oxford Used Car Centre and erm what happened , the mechanical breakdown service — now this is where I thought they were very good — they reimbursed me all the money that I 'd paid out on those repairs plus they did the repairs and put me a new gearbox in and the car 's running perfectly . |
| 13 | They make me light-headed , they make me feel sick , they go to my stomach , |
| 14 | If I see things and they make me mad , I have to talk about it . ’ |
| 15 | in fact they make me aggravated . . |
| 16 | Than sausages — in fact they make me ill . ' |
| 17 | They make me sick . ’ |
| 18 | They make me sick . ’ |
| 19 | They make me sick . |
| 20 | Not me , he thought , they make me sick . |
| 21 | They make me sick ! |
| 22 | They make me sick . |
| 23 | It 's alright , I do n't want one anyway they make me sick . |
| 24 | They go here , they go here and they make me dizzy . |
| 25 | And they fit me perfect . |
| 26 | They approached me one by one with invitations : some drinks over a game of cards ; a night out at the theatre … |
| 27 | That is why I stole the book and that is why they want me dead and why they need the book back . |
| 28 | I have to confess , for what it 's worth , I do not really like Lewis Carroll , Alice through the Looking Glass , and Alice in Wonderland , they bore me stiff ! |
| 29 | I would n't let anyone see them , not even Cal — they 're part of me — I would n't show them around any more than I 'd lie flat on my back while they slit me open and stared at my pulsating innards . |
| 30 | There 's only that bus stop and then it turns down you yet they charged me thirty five pence and that were n't even half past three . |