Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 2 | ‘ I have held my hand time and again , and even when they drove me to act I have abated my askings to keep the balance true and save Wales from worse enmity . |
| 3 | ‘ He had already contacted the police and when they came they asked me to look after the children so we sat in the car . |
| 4 | As the Sundance Kid said to Butch Cassidy , as they were being hotly pursued by a posse of Pinkerton detectives ‘ If they paid me to stop raiding banks , what they paid them to stop me robbing banks , I 'd stop robbing banks . ’ |
| 5 | And that was er under John John was the manager and er I tell you Scott come and he started swearing at me and I says , I did n't m ask you for your bloody job , so next er next morning when they goes , he they had they had me walking the rope . |