Example sentences of "me they have " 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 |
| 16 | Or you may be like those who tell me they 've used what could have been a disaster to make their lives more what they wanted them to be . |
| 17 | Good news if you 're making you way to park at the Walken Street car park in the centre of Mansfield the attendant tells me they 've got plenty of space . |
| 18 | Well they 've , they 've told me they 've got to go a , a tutor it 's another branch manager at a different branch . |
| 19 | Mind you er and even easier , what annoys me they 've put the interest rate down on the cards . |
| 20 | I mean to me they 've , London is classed as the south . |
| 21 | They told me they 'd found the source and they were going to prosecute the offender . |
| 22 | ‘ Yesterday morning , at Shellerton House , Mr Tremayne Vickers and young Mr and Mrs Perkin Vickers all told me they 'd spent three or four hours looking for you on Monday night . |
| 23 | I 'd been in there four months and they came and told me they 'd gone to America . |
| 24 | Me they 'd probably stone to death . |
| 25 | ‘ When Bonds told me they 'd succeeded in finding you , and sent me a description that tallied exactly , my first impulse was to go to England and strangle you with my bare hands . |
| 26 | You told me they 'd got a set of keys . |
| 27 | Of course , by the time someone comes to see me they have usually made up their mind that hypnosis will be beneficial for them and so this is not a situation I encounter very often . |
| 28 | ‘ Women say to me they have n't done anything for the last ten years and it turns out they have had four children , run the PTA , served as parent governor , done charity work , organised a community activity and cared for aged parents . ’ |
| 29 | Even Trollope has his abbey , although he despised both Disraeli 's challenge to Young England and his novels : ‘ To me they have all had the same flavour of paint and unreality … a feeling of stage properties … and that pricking of the conscience which must be the general accompaniment of paste diamonds . ’ |
| 30 | For me they have miniaturized an array of defensive and offensive armaments , which I carry in disguised form here and there on my clothes , accessories and body . |