Example sentences of "they [vb past] i [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " My mother is threatening to dismiss all the staff unless I tell her which one of them admitted me back into the house last night . |
| 2 | And we had some friends there and one day one of them rang me up and she said , could , could we come quickly we 've got a , a monitor lizard in the garden ? |
| 3 | ‘ They said it would be all right if I had the serial numbers but I do n't think they expected me back , ’ she said . |
| 4 | ‘ Four different priests gave me conditional absolution before they got me out . |
| 5 | ‘ They got me out of the ward and put me under a sheet in this side room . |
| 6 | Well , they got me out , and into our trenches , and patched me up , and I was just leaving when the Huns started shelling . |
| 7 | ‘ They made me out to be a hooligan , which I 'm not . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ When I was at drama school , they paired me off with a lovely actor who was only five foot eight and we had to play husband and wife ! |
| 9 | They asked me in for tea , and we all listened to the morning news on Radio Tonga , crackling over the miles from the aerials down in Tongatapu . |
| 10 | Oh I was playing up and they chucked me out the class or something and I had to stay in at dinner time . |
| 11 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 12 | One memorable day I wandered along to a municipal course and sat waiting while they fixed me up with a fourball . |
| 13 | But I mean of course they plugged me up with all sorts of things . |
| 14 | They were on a course at Donnington , they were living in , they invited me over , I said ooh , up to something |
| 15 | They invited me down to Cincinnati , Ohio , to observe networked computing — or personal computers which are linked together so that information can be transferred from one to another . |
| 16 | When they phoned me back I told them I was ill , made profuse apologies and asked if one of the other celebrities could open the helpline . |
| 17 | Over a ton , and they caught me out , |
| 18 | ‘ One morning they woke me up , told me to wash my face , and led me blindfolded into a room with a TV camera . |
| 19 | They drove me back to the Ministry , where I was questioned by an officer I 'd never seen before , a colonel . |
| 20 | They messed me around for days . |
| 21 | ‘ I found out later , in the pub when they paid me off . |
| 22 | and they fetched me down at the hospital |
| 23 | Everything went smoothly so long as I lay on my tummy , but when they turned me on to my back I was assailed with a searing pain there . |
| 24 | ‘ I applied but they turned me down . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ They threw me out , ’ the boy said softly . |
| 26 | ‘ They threw me out of the hostel . |
| 27 | They locked me out while they throw stuff at each other . |
| 28 | I swallowed this , and even as they walked me down the garden path and into the field where the half-built aviary was situated , I still had no idea what was going on . |
| 29 | They knocked me around and I blacked out , then they must have locked me up in here . |
| 30 | ‘ They trussed me up in a skip and left me under the showers . |