Example sentences of "they [vb base] i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I miss it , I missed it on Sunday , they bring me yorkshire puddings in |
| 2 | I filled four pages which I sent with a footnote requesting that they send me some books . |
| 3 | they cost me much labour to raise from seed . ’ |
| 4 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 5 | His pal his workmate was retired and a few months after , Arthur died , so it left me the one and the owners of the property , they give me notice to quit and no messing about er and when I talked to them , they give me twelve months , rate free , to erm get out . |
| 6 | I 'm gon na lift a few mint roots Stefan and er plant them in a box of compost and put them in the warm greenhouse so they give me nice sprigs of fresh mint in a few months ' time . |
| 7 | Even when I can understand all they are saying , they give me little opportunity to reply , so anxious are they to keep up the headlong momentum of their own speech ; then they complain that I say nothing ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They tell me that Tamsin is out on a boat at an all-night party with two or three hundred other people and a stack of booze . |
| 10 | we 're still involved , and they tell me that life on a fire station is still very pleasant so I 'm sure it must be . |
| 11 | It 's the in places at street they tell me these days . |
| 12 | And then again if they pay me this money as an ex gratia payment . |
| 13 | Already they keep me busy coming and consulting me about their topics to write on , and that , with 12 hours teaching a week , means that it is no holiday . |
| 14 | also i think players like Palmer , Pallister and Adams will see some big trouble with slick hollenders tomorrow — if they prove me wrong i will be happy : i hope for an english victory — but most of all a norw. point against Poland . |
| 15 | " I do n't care chat becomes of me , So long as they sing me that sheet melody , Yip-I-Addy , I-Ay , I-Ay , Yip-I Addy , I-Ay , I-Ay . " |