Example sentences of "but they have [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know if somebody 's trying to tell me something , but they 've made me number thirteen . |
| 2 | Jeff was voted their Player of the Year last season , but they 've let me have him for six months . |
| 3 | I 'd asked my mum and dad if I could go to a boarding school — the one in Edinburgh Andy was at , for example — but they 'd said I would n't like it and besides it would cost a lot of money . |
| 4 | They put in my real balance which was something like £7.50 — but they 'd given me their stamp . |
| 5 | But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated . |
| 6 | But they have told me they did not do it , ’ Mr Hermens added . |
| 7 | I was never sure about their ability to hold out against physically stronger packs , but they have proved me wrong time and again with Paul Arnold and Richard Moriarty back to their best . |