Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] i " in BNC.
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1 | The cops saw me where they thought I should n't be , so they got curious . |
2 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
3 | ‘ I said before , I wo n't go where they want me to go . |
4 | I must ask those who are more familiar with the sciences to forgive me for any passages where they feel I might be guilty of over simplification . |
5 | The gunner of the Fox gave me the final two fingers and I knew the third finger was coming up which meant the " K " gun would be right in my starboard earhole , I put my finger lip and gave the impression I was going to land , whereupon all the Foxes — by this time four or live of them — were given a signal by the leader , and they all turned on their backs and headed where they wanted me to follow . |
6 | Where they gave me meat and drink . ’ |
7 | to be with my friends although they let me sit with me friends so they 're good really so I 'm hoping that I should be able to get back on a Wednesday because er , that 's the only day really I can go , I go to Barn Mead on a Thursday as a rule you see , but yesterday I had to have a day off to go out , I had an invite out |
8 | I went back to the dining car to find Oliver and Cathy laying the tables for dinner , and I helped them automatically , although they said I need n't . |
9 | They never would have initiated it before , although they knew I was gay . |
10 | Although they give me a good start for next issue . |
11 | ‘ It took quite a while to stitch me up , but everything 's all right now , although they say I 've lost a lot of blood from the placental bleed . ’ |
12 | Everybody likes you better than they like me said Manyara , the elder sister . |
13 | Also , I 've decided not to brush down the table or re-mark it or clean the balls : I reckon a few bad kicks and some low-lying grit on the baize will unsettle him more than they will me . |
14 | sober he can do more than they do I mean i that ai n't the sort bloke you wan na lose , and I 'm , when he balls and shouts at them well he gets on your nerves really but at the end of the day I 'll you know , I 'll put up with it . |
15 | Apparently I 'd chosen to pee up against a police station , so they took me inside , and told me off , and of course I apologized . |
16 | They had never seen me so they thought I was white . |
17 | I had a notepad and I wrote poems on it when he was talking , so they thought I was taking letters . |
18 | I did n't know what career I wanted which baffled the system so they sent me to Edinburgh for a year . |
19 | She would n't know how to use a real weapon ( fnar fnar ) , so they sent me a to sharpen my axe on this month 's adventure offerings . |
20 | They ca n't fuck me , so they protect me . |
21 | Kelly Johnson had just left and so they asked me to join . |
22 | No not really — they just sit down and they listen to me and they 'll say something — " Brenda where you come from ? " [ laughs ] somefin' like that , you know what I mean , cause I 'm born English so they aks me what I want to speak Patois for ? |
23 | Now I know it 's a lot to expect , what with your sister still only nineteen , and the old a ‘ Buck ’ being every year of sixty five , so they tells me , but May and September 's always been a heady mix , and the old fool seems besotted . ’ |
24 | It 's not that bad , it 's just that red and green are fairly important colours to people who try to wave down planes and things like that , so they told me that being a pilot was definitely out . |
25 | She said , no you write and he 'll , she 'll write back , you see but , and he went out to France and he was killed in three months and and his name , so they told me was on the er , on the board at er . |
26 | At this moment two people grabbed me to try to make me get up but I could not get up , so they kicked me and stamped all over me from head to toe . |
27 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
28 | ‘ So they tell me . |
29 | ‘ Then I actually left Girlschool in 1989 because I got fed up with their attitude , although they 've changed now — so they tell me ! |
30 | I am King of England — or so they tell me ! |