Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] they [det] " in BNC.

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1 Not only did I get to model the clothes how I liked , I got to keep them all afterwards .
2 I sorted through my frocks but could find none that fitted me ; I 'd outgrown them all and was waiting until I 'd grown into Liza 's castoffs .
3 What we gave you is the time they come and the next weekend they were back again , and I 'd warned them several times and in the end I said look forget it , and I had it , you know , the works gone off , erm , and as far as I 'm concerned it 's Wednesday nights , I 've really got to , and the price I started to pay , is no longer worth it to me .
4 that 's why I really wanted to try all these other avenues cos I 'd watched them all and , and each one , no disrespect to any of them , but
5 I 'd got them all .
6 Some of them turned out to be not as indifferent to my plight as I 'd feared they all would be , and a few murmured that if I did really feel strongly about the way I had been treated , I should indeed take the matter up with the Senate .
7 Only Frankie and Liza were in so I decided to tell them both what had happened .
8 It was n't long before I started finding them both repetitive and bland .
9 I wanted the hotel to clean them , but when I went to get them this morning , one had gone .
10 Yes , maybe I did have them all , or a good number of them anyway .
11 Of course the main thing about the shoes was that I had to wear them all the time .
12 The Hurricanes were to land at Hal Far aerodrome and I circled that aerodrome until I had seen them all land safely .
13 Yeah , I did n't have until I had to swap them all round
14 I remembered how in England I had pitied them all tucked away in oblivion : Feathers , the first man of my course to go missing ; Johnny Soames whose aircraft I had watched skidding away from the formation on one of the early daylight raids over northern France .
15 I had to sort them all out again so you can see what he got up there .
16 Many , many children died , and I had to bury them all .
17 When I auditioned with Mike , he gave me a list of twenty-five songs to work on and I thought I had to learn them all in five days , because we were starting rehearsals only a week later !
18 I WAS really only a bystander in the tragedy of young Mr and Mrs McLeod ; it was not really my business , although it could be said that I had known them both — had seen them about — for most of their lives .
19 ‘ It was as though I had let them all down .
20 I wanted to shoot them all , but there were many of them and only one of me .
21 He says : ‘ I wanted to sign them both and was sorting out the work permit side of it when I was dismissed .
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