Example sentences of "they [verb] i [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken two of them to free me from the current and I was so relieved . |
| 2 | They helped me over the next road , me nearly tripping as I crossed the far kerb . |
| 3 | It was the way they put me on the right track that made me wonder — guiding angels in the Bible have a habit of appearing as two young men . |
| 4 | Ah well they put me on the top rate of pay , which was quite good , thirty five shilling a week . |
| 5 | They put me in the same category as Martinho . |
| 6 | Sometimes they confuse me with the hon. Member for Walthamstow ( Mr. Summerson ) — I am the hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford , and unemployment in my constituency has not risen to quite the extent that he suggests . |
| 7 | They advised me of the best route to take home — and by the best they meant the most fun , not the quickest . |
| 8 | Well that 's what everybody sings to me when them and they meet me for the first time or get introduced to me . |
| 9 | And it just goes on keeps going on another night another nightmare and then back to the interview room again and the tape machine again and more questions about Stromefirry-nofirry and Jersey and flights and that 's when they tell me about the other one that 's when they say oh by the way your best friend Andy is dead blown up in the hotel when it burned down ; probably beaten to death first head stoved in but of course you probably know all that because you did that too , did n't you ? |
| 10 | The first thing they ask me on the 1st tee is , ‘ Billy , tell me all about your family . ' ’ |
| 11 | They viewed me with the same puzzled look as I later saw on the faces of nomads miles from civilization . |
| 12 | In fact , they remind me of the Prudential TV ads ( ‘ I want to be in goal ’ , ‘ I want to be … remembered ! ’ ) . |
| 13 | They remembered me from the previous year too . |
| 14 | They remembered me from the old days . ’ |
| 15 | They had me in the holding cells at headquarters . |
| 16 | The aim is to have about three suits per series — I certainly do n't want to come prancing on every week in something different , but neither do I want people to groan when they see me in the same old suit . |
| 17 | they wanted me for the whole day of Friday but I said I 'm sorry I can only do you half day if you 're interested , they were , they were desperate . |
| 18 | Besides , the only people who live beyond here are that Elizabeth and the farmer , and neither of them strikes me as the riotous type . ’ |