Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | My colleagues seemed genuinely worried by my decision and many of them tried to convince me to change my mind . |
| 2 | Each of them has reached me and I know not how to save myself . ’ |
| 3 | One of them came to see me last night when I got back from Paris . |
| 4 | One of them came to see me , and as I walked towards him across the table , he put on his glasses . |
| 5 | I asked , but neither of them seemed to hear me . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've got three phone lines , to convert one of them to ISDN costs me £400 . |
| 7 | This made them wish to take me to see something more lovely on the island . |
| 8 | They might as well have a badge on them saying Steal Me in big black letters . |
| 9 | And if they somehow suspected that I was picking up something valuable , why would any of them try to kill me before the pick-up ? |
| 10 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 11 | So they agreed to let me play and I asked them where they wanted me . |
| 12 | I did n't have to think — I was leaping downhill like a goddamned goat before I 'd summed up the situation : which was they intended to rob me . |
| 13 | I can never be grateful enough to them for the sacrifice they made to keep me at school , when even ten shillings a week would have relieved the pressure on the food bill . |
| 14 | And when they silver plate things what they tend to do I mean first th the thing When you plate something erm it follows the shape . |
| 15 | See they 've offered me more money to stay at this one cos I 've got it running quite well |
| 16 | ‘ But , if I were he , I would worry most if they sought to reassure me . |
| 17 | ‘ But , if I were he , I would worry most if they sought to reassure me . |
| 18 | If I stop there and clutch my possessions , they grow to possess me and I will be their slave . |
| 19 | They 've destroyed all my things — and I think they want to destroy me . ’ |
| 20 | What for they want to lock me up ? |
| 21 | They want to finish me , that 's what it is ! |
| 22 | They want to kill me . |
| 23 | ‘ But they want to deport me and I ca n't get out without a ticket which will cost another £600 to £700 . ’ |
| 24 | They want to bend me to their will like a factory machine , so they can scrap me when I wear out . |
| 25 | Not physically , I do n't think they want to hurt me , but your life is not your own . ’ |
| 26 | They want to frighten me — and my parents . |
| 27 | And that 's the reason why they want to get me back . ’ |
| 28 | If they want to meet me at 8am , they can have breakfast before they arrive — they do n't need breakfast at the Savoy . |
| 29 | Oh , cos , they want recording I suppose . |
| 30 | If they want to know I know exactly what number it is . |