Example sentences of "they [verb] me [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen . |
| 2 | It was the way they put me on the right track that made me wonder — guiding angels in the Bible have a habit of appearing as two young men . |
| 3 | Ah well they put me on the top rate of pay , which was quite good , thirty five shilling a week . |
| 4 | They put me in an isolated pit for the first few weeks . |
| 5 | When I was running away they put me in an approved school for girls run by nuns . |
| 6 | Sometimes they confuse me with the hon. Member for Walthamstow ( Mr. Summerson ) — I am the hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford , and unemployment in my constituency has not risen to quite the extent that he suggests . |
| 7 | ‘ People were hugging and kissing each other as my car powered its way to the finish as they joined me in an early celebration . |
| 8 | And it just goes on keeps going on another night another nightmare and then back to the interview room again and the tape machine again and more questions about Stromefirry-nofirry and Jersey and flights and that 's when they tell me about the other one that 's when they say oh by the way your best friend Andy is dead blown up in the hotel when it burned down ; probably beaten to death first head stoved in but of course you probably know all that because you did that too , did n't you ? |
| 9 | They took me to a secret prison and raped me over and over again by forcing the barrel of a gun into me . |
| 10 | They took me to an enormous wall built of Pelasgian blocks . |
| 11 | In fact , they remind me of the Prudential TV ads ( ‘ I want to be in goal ’ , ‘ I want to be … remembered ! ’ ) . |
| 12 | They remembered me from the previous year too . |
| 13 | They remembered me from the old days . ’ |
| 14 | They had me in the holding cells at headquarters . |
| 15 | But having a woman on the wing makes them realise they have hurt real people , they see me as a real person |
| 16 | A deaf therapist said : ‘ They do n't see me as a health professional who knows it all , but who does n't really understand ; they see me as a disabled person . ’ |
| 17 | they wanted me for the whole day of Friday but I said I 'm sorry I can only do you half day if you 're interested , they were , they were desperate . |