Example sentences of "they [vb past] i [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 2 | They asked me to get thirty-six teams , at one point in was fifty-seven but it settled down to thirty-six |
| 3 | They played I mean all sorts of games that we played they do n't play today . |
| 4 | But there was a foreman in the shop , but these did their own job er and er in the about three or four weeks , and I 'm only a kid , erm they had me doing separate jobs you know , not for a gaffer or anything and er they used to , they give me odd jobs as , you know like , to help the men and er it went of like that in till I was eighteen or nineteen , well twenty , that time you were , day , become a man . |
| 5 | They wanted me to wear this wig , a gross , thick , nylon thing like something out of the Nolan sisters . |
| 6 | ‘ Oddly enough the selectors only told me shortly before the match that they wanted me to play left centre so that ‘ Obbo ’ could get some of the ball , ’ Cranmer reminisced . |