Example sentences of "they [vb past] i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a pile of really filthy-looking blankets on the bed , they got me some sheets and a towel , and I managed to get an extra pillow because of my asthma . |
| 2 | They asked me personal questions that I could not even repeat here today . |
| 3 | What they told me this morning ? ’ |
| 4 | They told me last night that he had been arrested . |
| 5 | I mean in terms of population I think I somebody did er Strathclyde regional council used to be a client of mine when I was with Three M er well you know a client of my rep up here but er and they told me some time that I think a huge percentage of the whole of Scotland 's population |
| 6 | They paid me five shillings a week , which was a lot more than most got . |
| 7 | ‘ I think it was quite a victory , looking at ‘ The Aztecs ’ , that they allowed me some leeway there : having me chosen as the wife of the Warrior , which more or less said , look she 's marriageable now . |
| 8 | Yes and er if I might s oh I er do n't know I 've been to bloody shop meself but I ai n't sorry about it , cos I 've done what I 've wanted to do and I 've enjoyed what I 've done and erm the authorities they get 'd me that on er hardship grounds there , as I say , being on er residential premise and er they showed me great respect and er |
| 9 | I did n't really believe the , so they showed me these pictures of themselves with Mr Brando , on his Tahitian island , their arms round him . |
| 10 | I read them , furtively , like boys do pornography , and they showed me another world . |
| 11 | ‘ Some friends who were with me on holiday in Romania talked about the idea and when they contacted me this year saying they were going to do the ride I told them I was more than willing to join them , ’ said Karen , who teaches at Applegarth Primary School , Northallerton . |
| 12 | With my ham and cheese , which were not of my making , they brought me iced seltzer . |
| 13 | yeah , but some of the letters have come , in fact they sent me that catalogue you know |
| 14 | And at the moment we 're on the ninth of this month , I received a copy today they s they sent me some material , erm they 've actually been given photographs by people like er Ansell Adams , Fay Goodwin , er David er Bailey . |
| 15 | They sent me this picture . ’ |
| 16 | They offered me considerable incentives to take up the role of figurehead in the new Whaddon regime ; unlimited and free use of Tilley 's taxis between 2.30 and 4.15 on Tuesday afternoons and generous discounts should I ever need the cat coiffured . |
| 17 | They bought me three years ago when I got dropped out of Mars-U before my geology finals . |
| 18 | They gave me two options , basically one was to take the system down for twenty four hours and er while they got , they caught up with the jobs which I , I , I 've knocked on the head . |
| 19 | They gave me two days to decide — two days of hell . ’ |
| 20 | and we will give you a er , two addresses , and so they gave me two addresses and and to reach people at I 've done the job quite well . |
| 21 | They gave me 26 quid this week but I rummaged through the shed and found a couple of things to stick in as prizes . |
| 22 | it 's not it 's my Walkman , they gave me a Walkman , they gave me twenty tapes , I 'm not joking |
| 23 | So they gave me minute instructions ( enclosed , along with the much-travelled draft , in the foreign-desk-clerk 's handwriting ) about what you should say to them if you can be persuaded to try them again . |
| 24 | And they says , Well a person who lived in your flat before you had a telly , you know and they gave me some excuse , you know that the the the person who lived in here before me had ripped them off and they says , How do we know that you 're not that person , you know things like that . |
| 25 | And Ford 's put up a lot of the money and so they wanted their cut from the publicity , and they gave me another award , and their manager in Brighton came to present it . |
| 26 | For dinner they gave me three kinds of meat — a square of beef , a triangle of chicken and a circle of lamb . |
| 27 | They held me one night on a holding charge because they had to analyse the pharmaceuticals . |