Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] i [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See they 've offered me more money to stay at this one cos I 've got it running quite well |
| 2 | I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this . |
| 3 | At first they asked me if I wanted my mum to go out but I said No , but when they started asking me all those sorts of questions they asked me again and I said Yes . |
| 4 | Yes they did tell me that your Lordship . |
| 5 | Er now did we get John back or we 've forgotten John now because he 's in a shop serving customers in Ripon and er great take away Indian there very very good take away Indian and they did ask me this would you please play this so hang on . |
| 6 | I 'm gon na see if they 've saved me any . |
| 7 | And they 've given me that . |
| 8 | In the meantime they 've given me this to go on with , ’ he answered , throwing our ration card across the table . |
| 9 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 10 | That 's why , ’ said Mahmoud , tapping the bundle of papers , ‘ they 've given me this . |
| 11 | They 've give me that . |
| 12 | They had caused me many heartaches and disillusions , and I was determined that it should never happen again . |