Example sentences of "[prep] them [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 2 | " 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 " . |
| 3 | It was nice of them to let me join in , they were very patient , but you could see they were itching for a good game and I 'm just hopeless . |
| 4 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Anyway , one of them told me to stay and gave me a raffle ticket . |
| 7 | At none of them did I seem to do well . |
| 8 | But this kid goes haywire and a lot of them do I mean he 's all crash bang wallop is n't he ? |
| 9 | One of them slugged me to shut me up . ’ |
| 10 | My exam results and my father 's comments upon them left me shrivelled . |
| 11 | what I would like and I 'm sure it happens with the previous C P O er and I have been notified by telephone and I keep saying to them let me know , but I would like probably a memo from each C P O to say that there is a meeting on this particular night . |