Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] i " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | So they agreed to let me play and I asked them where they wanted me . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | See they 've offered me more money to stay at this one cos I 've got it running quite well |
7 | ‘ But , if I were he , I would worry most if they sought to reassure me . |
8 | ‘ But , if I were he , I would worry most if they sought to reassure me . |
9 | If I stop there and clutch my possessions , they grow to possess me and I will be their slave . |
10 | They 've destroyed all my things — and I think they want to destroy me . ’ |
11 | What for they want to lock me up ? |
12 | They want to finish me , that 's what it is ! |
13 | They want to kill me . |
14 | ‘ But they want to deport me and I ca n't get out without a ticket which will cost another £600 to £700 . ’ |
15 | They want to bend me to their will like a factory machine , so they can scrap me when I wear out . |
16 | Not physically , I do n't think they want to hurt me , but your life is not your own . ’ |
17 | They want to frighten me — and my parents . |
18 | And that 's the reason why they want to get me back . ’ |
19 | If they want to meet me at 8am , they can have breakfast before they arrive — they do n't need breakfast at the Savoy . |
20 | Oh , cos , they want recording I suppose . |
21 | If they want to know I know exactly what number it is . |
22 | They tried to demoralise me , but as far as I am concerned they were just abusing me . |
23 | THEY tried to demoralise me , but as far as I am concerned they were just abusing me . |
24 | They tried to lift me out of my depression . |
25 | And I think they tried to drug me the night before I rode Shine On at York . ’ |
26 | ‘ They tried to kill me . ’ |
27 | There they tried to kill me . |
28 | They tried to shoot me , but the bullets hit the table . |
29 | Then they tried to persuade me to part with the silver and everything else that had belonged to my husband . |
30 | They tried to persuade me she was interested only in sculpting in future . ’ |