Example sentences of "they have [verb] i " in BNC.

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1 Each of them has reached me and I know not how to save myself . ’
2 See they 've offered me more money to stay at this one cos I 've got it running quite well
3 I thought they 'd hidden me away in a cupboard .
4 I thought they 'd hung me up by my arms , ’ he began , and then he stopped short , remembering that the Punishment Squad could not do that to a crippled man with one arm .
5 They put in my real balance which was something like £7.50 — but they 'd given me their stamp .
6 He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’
7 ‘ Only one , ’ said Ken , ‘ and that was n't because I forgot it : it was because they 'd given me bad directions . ’
8 So I went in and told them and they 'd given me wrong sack .
9 Guess what they 'd seen me in ?
10 In the beginning Marian took on a lot of criminal work and admits wryly that the ‘ old lags just thought they 'd led me have a try ’ .
11 Yes , and erm , I 'm very sorry about it , er , because if they 'd breathalysed me I would have failed as well .
12 But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated .
13 I did n't offer them more coffee , and when they 'd gone I mooched around the flat hoping to wind down .
14 I 'd asked my mum and dad if I could go to a boarding school — the one in Edinburgh Andy was at , for example — but they 'd said I would n't like it and besides it would cost a lot of money .
15 And a Liverpool painter 's son , who after his father died ‘ was brought up with me grandmother ’ , calling her ‘ mother ’ , chose not to return to his real mother when she remarried and could offer him a home again : ‘ They 'd brought me up , and it would n't be fair for them to take me after from rearing me . ’
16 If I was too embarrassed , too full of shame to go and see them , it was n't just my fault ; it was theirs too , because of the way they 'd brought me up ( God , I thought I 'd stopped using that excuse when I left Lochgair Primary School ) .
17 My parents were fond of travel , and they 'd brought me on a trip , long before people had even heard of package holidays .
18 The paramedics turned up within ten minutes and as they turned up I passed out , so they applied the defibrillator to my chest and the next thing I knew from one minute to sitting talking to them I knew I was on the ground and they 'd brought me round .
19 They 'd expected me to bring things belonging to my mother that they could share out , but there was hardly anything .
20 Yeah once I 'd got there , they 'd offered me it er and I went home and thought about it actually thought about having to work for them , you know , not just
21 ‘ D' you remember , ’ Cal said , ‘ when I was new at school when you were too , three years ago , they 'd taken me away from St Catherine 's and I never told you why .
22 They 'ud 've strung me up if they 'd taken me . ’
23 ‘ If only they 'd taken me !
24 And in the morning , yeah , you have to wake up earlier they 'd bring the hosepipe and they 'd wake you up with cold water and you 'd have to have a cold shower and everything And sometimes they , they put , they 'd used I got , I got done the worse and , like , I just woke up cos I felt cold .
25 I 'd met Kristin and Sabine that morning and they 'd told me to come over and described where they were now living .
26 They 'd told me that as I was caught in civilian clothes I was going to be treated as a spy , and every time I heard those shots I thought ‘ My turn tomorrow ’ . '
27 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 .
28 Oh , they 'd told me , but until I saw you I could n't believe it .
29 They were afraid to ta but if they 'd had that if they 'd told me to provide an extra coach for the Manchester as I was suggesting , Dougie would have come out and taken strips off them for You see .
30 When I went into prison I had mixed feelings for people outside — I hated them , I felt they had rejected me , they 'd left me alone to just get on with it .
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