Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , no , we are not brave , we are very frightened ’ , was the inevitable response when I asked why they always fled . |
| 2 | When I asked why they chose me , George said , because you are the President of the Oxford Drama Club/my bank manager/my oldest friend/the boss/have known us for twenty-five years/you are the tallest/you have the loudest voice/ , and Martha said , because you have known Annabelle since she was fourteen/a baby/a child/all her life/at school/at college/you tell the best jokes . |
| 3 | ‘ All right , thank you , ’ Dorothy would say when I asked how they were keeping . |
| 4 | Anyhow , the next morning I got up they were all over the deck , they crawled out of the bloody bucket . |
| 5 | That when I got here they would n't be missing anymore . |
| 6 | anyhow that made me feel there was no future in Plymouth for that , so this opportunity came , I came and when I got here they did n't carry any sergeants so I would of had to move again if I wanted promotion , which I was n't prepared to do for this , mainly for his education , unfortunately the |
| 7 | Mind you last Monday when I got home they was all up . |
| 8 | When I got there they were already out on the beach sizing up the surf . |
| 9 | When I got there they moaned about all the clothes and stuff I had , because you have to take everything with you when they move you about . |
| 10 | I du n no , they get in on a Friday night he said by the time we 've cashed up , when I got there they 'd got this round coffee table in the middle of the room similar to that brass one what I 'm but it 's an old tin thing it is sitting in the middle of the room there was a little bag of money there a little bag of money there and a bag of money there that 's Geoff 's money that 's petrol money that 's five hundred pound . |
| 11 | On the day I got out they picked us up in a taxi at the prison and then we went to the hospital to pick him up . |
| 12 | As soon as I got back they 'd start about Exams , Re-sits , Careers . |
| 13 | Low and behold when I got back they were waiting for me you see ? |
| 14 | I found out they do . |
| 15 | He wanted to pay the TV licence , although it was n't due until July , and sent off a post-dated cheque which , incidentally , was how I found out they do n't accept them . |
| 16 | I found out they had a computer in the bottom of the building when I worked in the bank and it started off from that . |
| 17 | ‘ When I found out they were still alive I was over the moon . ’ |
| 18 | When I came round they gave me a large tot of whisky , another injection of morphia and sent me off to Imtarfa , as drunk as a lord . |
| 19 | When I came up they put us in the detention room on the house for pregnant women . |
| 20 | When I came aboard they did n't have a lead amp line as such ; they were famous for their bass amps , obviously , but their lead amp line was just there , no real profile , and the consumer did n't really realise that they had anything other than bass amps . |
| 21 | ‘ But when I came in they were clearly not ready and they were running around for tyres . |
| 22 | When I came back they were waiting for me . |
| 23 | Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions . |
| 24 | I was , I was in the loo and erm they were , they went into the office and I could hear this rummaging of paper and I thought they 've got a club book , I did n't think any more of it , and when I came out they got , both of them out of the boxes . |
| 25 | Well , when I arrived there they all were , sitting down waiting . |
| 26 | I clearly understood why when I heard how they confirmed his view of the economy in Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | So I rang up they said er , oh we 'll order them and we 'll get back to you of how much they are . |
| 28 | Now I knew why they were so sad , and why they were poor . |
| 29 | We had lost the press buses and one of the Gofers , a merchant banker , came up to me on the tarmac to ask if I knew where they were . |
| 30 | So her hands were up and they were off before I knew where they were . |