Example sentences of "i [verb] [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 | Yes , yes I mean unconsciously they will happen |
| 5 | I mean either they opt for a family , or they opt for a job . |
| 6 | but surely , but surely I mean surely they 'll be able to restore the housing benefit |
| 7 | I mean generally they you know , I , that 's one of the things people cut back though is n't it ? |
| 8 | what can I do , well I mean the there are , but I mean well they 're not , it 's not as expensive is it , once your |
| 9 | Cos I mean presumably they were n't between eighteen fifty and nineteen fifty they were n't practising excessive birth control |
| 10 | but worth trying that , that would certainly help , but I just wondered even if you know sort of local press , I mean presumably they are in their league for doing this |
| 11 | Well they probably do but I mean right they can go and I mean what do they spend their money on ? |
| 12 | Well yes , I mean clearly they mean keep Lyn |
| 13 | I mean today they do , they plaster a wall and they |
| 14 | But maybe cos there was no opportunity , they did n't see there to be I mean like they did n't know any better but as soon as , I mean things are rapidly changing they 're given the opportunity to erm I mean through the struggles to actually take charge of the conditions and to gain so some material and perhaps there was beginnings of them seeing that well perhaps we ought to look more to this sub-culture and to erm |
| 15 | Mm , well I should of said , I mean like they used to . |
| 16 | So I mean perhaps they 'd be better off dead , just keeping them alive in a state of sickness or in coma or something of this sort — there was a great discussion about this and that erm you see not even life is the ultimate good in a sense , you see , at some point death is better . |
| 17 | No I mean usually they show you on the T V when they 're leaving do n't they ? |
| 18 | Erm I mean maybe they have n't had very much , but erm but in , in a sense there 's a sort of huge commitment on their part to that , because they actually , I remember some chap came over to do the talk and I think he 's got four kids and he said , well you know , I did n't know how my kids were going to react to people fine you know |
| 19 | And it was very easy for young erm young women erm who were either just on supplementary benefit or on unemployment , erm to get sucked into that way of living because I mean obviously they wanted nice clothes and things like that . |
| 20 | You know , if the erm that if the family think you 're going to actually take the child off them because they 're not looking after it properly , then I mean obviously they 're not perhaps going to be as frank with you as they might otherwise . |
| 21 | Well er er I think not because I would have heard , I mean obviously they would 've er |
| 22 | When d' you meet any real people apart from those limousine sharks and cordless telephone freaks who never met an ordinary person , do n't know any ordinary people : how they live , we live , nor how we die , I mean how they die . ’ |
| 23 | Well , oh yes , I 'm sure I 'm not saying that 's the only thing that controls people 's food intake I mean clearly there are things cultural some cultures , the Japanese seem to love eating raw fish , I mean how they can bring themselves to do it I do now know , I mean the raw is I do n't think I 'd want to eat again , but er erm not always if they were cooked either , but erm the , the er and certainly if you look at the Australian Aborigines even though we take the Australian Aborigines as our kind of primeval people , they have astonishing food taboos , I mean their attitudes to food are very very culturally er effective to , to a quite extraordinary extent , some so that somebody somebody discovered that eating a tabooed food by accident , they 'll get very ill , a kind of psychosomatic illness . |
| 24 | I mean how they ch the fact they choose to sub-contract out to me is one thing , yeah , I mean that 's their problem in that sense . |
| 25 | I mean now they 're going for thirty two . |
| 26 | it gets a bit yeah , which is why I 'm gon na stick with two , I mean now they want to go and see Peter Pan next , when that comes down which will be what probably a month , about once every couple of months they 'll go or once a month |
| 27 | I mean now they 're as thick as thieves you know ? |
| 28 | I mean now they wan na , both on the other side of the fence , they 're the biggest crawlers going . |
| 29 | afford a holiday now , I mean now they 've taken on a mortgage |
| 30 | I mean really they should they do n't mind |