Example sentences of "they [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want them to see me crying . |
| 2 | If I 'm going anywhere where I want them to see me as a ‘ teacher ’ you know with all that that implies , then I 'll wear my wedding ring . |
| 3 | We do n't as yet have any friends in the street , but we 're on Hello terms with a few neighbours , and frankly I would n't want them to see me putting all these flowers on a skip . |
| 4 | For a moment I thought he was going to get back to the DIY metaphor and start to try to get them to see me as undercoat or Jesus Christ as primer , but , instead , he recovered himself enough to say , ‘ Great News ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I felt for a lot of years I did have a lot to lose , when there was only one way to go and that was down , and when things did n't go the way I wanted them to go I blamed others . |
| 6 | Not a one of them realized I was not human . |
| 7 | I risked them seeing me so as to try to hear , but in fact by the time I could hear them they were shouting , which meant I could listen through the doorway without seeing them or being seen . |
| 8 | It took four of them to carry me . |
| 9 | I spent the rest of the evening pretending riveted attention on the discussion while all the time practising ways of looking at the two women without them catching me . |
| 10 | I ask them to forgive me for not taking interventions . |
| 11 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 12 | One day , one of them asked me , ‘ Have you ever seen any of our Struldbrugs ? ’ |
| 13 | " My mother is threatening to dismiss all the staff unless I tell her which one of them admitted me back into the house last night . |
| 14 | He had quite rightly decided that he could do no good by playing with the Huns at 20,000 feet , so came down to see that none of them got me . ’ |
| 15 | It was a moody holiday and I followed the roads ; some of them led me aright and some astray . |
| 16 | ‘ I said I was subject to them , not that I let them rule me ! ’ |
| 17 | When I meet people I like , instead of saying more and showing I like them and asking questions , I sort of clam up , as if I do n't expect them to like me , or as if I 'm not interesting enough for them . |
| 18 | Some of them became my friends and have remained so until the present day , but the sheer earthy mass of them made me realize how my few months of married life had changed me . |
| 19 | Just watching them made me feel ill . |
| 20 | Ask them to write me a reference so I got form to fill in to send off for something but I 've got ta write something . |
| 21 | He 's got to go to those trustees and let them know I 'm capable of handling my own money . ’ |
| 22 | I find some offences disgust me , Im let the guy know , but then I let them know I want to help them |
| 23 | Erm , if erm , if one of them contradicted me in the class , I burst into tears , I think you 'd think something was seriously wrong with me , would n't you ? |
| 24 | I could see them disbelieving me . ’ |
| 25 | I did n't want them noticing me even a little . |
| 26 | ‘ Let's just say I would n't want them protecting me , ’ Whitlock replied . |
| 27 | " I can not accept lectures , " he told his guests , " because the people who pay for them expect me to attend cocktail parties at which I am caught between someone wanting to know what I think of existentialism and someone asking me what I really meant by such-and-such a line " . |
| 28 | I think talking to them helped me a lot to get over those first few months . |
| 29 | Looking back , I need not have turned my nose up with such scorn when any of them approached me , as I 'm sure they did need some friendly contacts , but if one showed any signs of friendliness , they interpreted this as an invitation to attach themselves to you for the rest of the day , and probably the night too . |
| 30 | I made them show me their identification … |