Example sentences of "they [verb] i [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made them show me their identification … |
| 2 | ‘ They sell me my flat , then decide to demolish the place , ’ Mr McKenna said yesterday . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , if it had n't been for me , you would n't have had it , because they asked me your character . |
| 4 | ‘ They told me her bra was torn . |
| 5 | ‘ Later they told me my body just went up in the air and I was hanging on by one hand . ’ |
| 6 | And they told me my flat 's and go , you know I can move I 'm gon na pack everything before even a house comes through . |
| 7 | I had been in hospital for about two days when they told me my tumour was malignant . |
| 8 | They showed me my new hip . |
| 9 | it 's always a bit a it came home to me with great a vigour and enthusiasm when I was walking round the kitting station at R A F Innsworth with a supermarket trolley getting it filled with kit and when I got to the end they handed me my dog tags and my gun , I thought what have I let myself in for because I 'd never worn dog tags before and I 'd never had a gun with live ammunition in it that got strapped to my hip and you suddenly realise , I 'm going into a real war it was quite a nerve racking experience for a few days |
| 10 | They tell me their communities are sickened by this latest outrage . |
| 11 | Fair and fragile though he be — they tell me his father looked so in his youth — yet he has great strength of will . |
| 12 | At the same time I wrote to Ann Kite Education Services and they sent me their basic Video Course . |
| 13 | The Aborigines who were with me , and of whom I must speak in the highest praise , for the readiness with which they rendered me their assistance , affirmed , upon learning the nature of my pursuits , that they had come to meet me . ’ |
| 14 | I would n't leave Madley if they offered me my own travelling dressing-room . |
| 15 | I glowed when they gave me their expert c , pinion that I was in most respects ‘ a normal young man ’ . |
| 16 | With kindness and loyalty and sacrifice they gave me their support , as did all but two of my colleagues in Macmillan 's Cabinet . |
| 17 | It was not Diana 's day to lunch so they gave me her secluded table from which to view the proceedings . |
| 18 | I have a card someplace and all their signatures are on it , when they gave me my dinner service [ a wedding present ] . |
| 19 | The professors realized that I was doing very important work , and so they gave me my own laboratory . |