Example sentences of "me they had " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was their manner that told me they had to be taken seriously . |
| 2 | They told me they had a little house not far away from where I lived , and that Dorothy was expecting a baby — twins , the doctor had said . |
| 3 | The line tightening in the water told me they had done so , and I struck before all the bow had been taken out of the line . |
| 4 | ‘ He told me they had auditioned a lot of people back home and that they had five names in America that they were auditioning , and I was the first that day . |
| 5 | But a friend of Courtney said : ‘ Soon after they married Tom told me they had problems . |
| 6 | Yet it seemed to me they had much to learn when it came to manners and plain humanity . |
| 7 | I decided , for example , that if a parent told me they had dreamt about having a ‘ Down 's baby ’ before the birth — in the medical literature , this is a classic after-the-event self-deception — they had in fact had such a dream . |
| 8 | Later , my mother told me they had to lip read : they could n't hear each other speak for the noise of the looms . |
| 9 | Even though the politics were there to see , for me they had no context yet . |
| 10 | Yes , I have at last , and the I 'm sure that they lied in their teeth , they they assured me they had written to me after my second letter in March , er in fact , and they said they were going to send me a photocopy of that , in fact er she wrote me a letter in June , so I do n't believe the other one existed , |
| 11 | The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery . |
| 12 | He told me they had put into Puerto Gallegos to land seven Swedish engineers with spares for Volvo and Saab equipment and had seen an old wooden square-rigger lying at the Navy Yard quay . |
| 13 | I went downstairs and they told me they had just got married . |
| 14 | A year ago , Norfolk Library 's local history department told me they had nothing about Edis — perhaps the most important woman photographer in East Anglia . |
| 15 | Fuck me they had no telly in those days , but that 's fucking beyond a joke |