Example sentences of "[coord] they [verb] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they took me on in nineteen thirty six to help them you see . |
| 2 | I tended the wounds of one of their men and they took me back with them into the great Forest of Ettrick . ’ |
| 3 | The Men came for me where I huddled in the marram grass and they took me back to the low cage . |
| 4 | I once worked in the shopfloor in a factory , putting cream on to cream cakes , when I finished college , and they took me out and put me in the lab even though I did n't have any science degree , and I was in the labs for three months . |
| 5 | He carried me here , he knows the fam'ly , and they took me in . |
| 6 | I met our Tony and Helen as I was coming here and they told me not to be long . |
| 7 | I asked what was the problem and they told me not to bother my pretty head with scum . |
| 8 | Anyway , I was told to accompany David on the Express if I could get a visa and off I went to Washington DC to apply for one and they told me absolutely not — I could n't have one — go away . |
| 9 | ‘ They could see I was taking it easier on some of the sessions and they told me so . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've seen them all and they struck me as perfectly ordinary honest citizens . |
| 11 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 12 | I got there and they asked me why I did n't get there sooner . |
| 13 | I went to the hospital and they asked me how I done it . |
| 14 | And they left me instead ! |
| 15 | and they left me behind ! |
| 16 | I was taken down to the block [ punishment wing ] and they left me there for two days . |
| 17 | What it turned out to be was a lump of clay that I 'd moulded into what looked like a piece of black and wrapped up in silver paper just fooling about and they really freaked out and they kicked me out and had the police involved and everything . |
| 18 | ‘ I was two months pregnant and my parents said I 'd brought shame on their house and they kicked me out . ’ |
| 19 | Oh I was playing up and they chucked me out the class or something and I had to stay in at dinner time . |
| 20 | Y'know , with only these two lads coming round the house and then both of them got bust in one of the lads ’ house and they blew me up as the one who was supplying them . |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't know where to begin looking for Mike so I called the police and they put me on to you . |
| 22 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 23 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 24 | And they brought me up . |
| 25 | ‘ I took up the cups of coffee , five cups , and they give me only four straws , not five , ’ he explained carefully . |
| 26 | Say I was involved with a gallery and they called me up tomorrow , and said , ‘ Alison I want you to do this painting ’ , I could just comply . |
| 27 | It 's probably cos I walked in and they called me over , I mean I |
| 28 | And they called me more or less er to do the odd jobs you know and in the brew house , as was here , I fixed , I told you once , I fixed a bench up , it was as tight as could be and put a vice on it and all in here , this shop here , they says you can come in here anytime and do what you like and er |
| 29 | And they picked me up in turn and gave me a kiss . |
| 30 | they saw our house Friday , and they rang me up , and I said look , you know , I 've got , I 've got my exams today and I really do n't want to come up unless you see something , if you do , I will come up because they reckon it 's a joint effort , if we 're gon na live together , we 've all got to see it and make a contribution to looking at the house . |