Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] they [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not Diana 's day to lunch so they gave me her secluded table from which to view the proceedings . |
| 2 | But do n't call the law unless they give me the black spot , or if you see the seaman with one leg — he 's worse than any of them . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You must come back for our Christmas party , ’ they said in unison as they waved me off . |
| 4 | They will come to the window when they see me to request food — but not to those of my friends who are unknown to them . |
| 5 | ‘ I found out later , in the pub when they paid me off . |
| 6 | " They were very polite while I was here with them , but they must have boiled and fumed with indignation when they left me , " he said , chuckling . |
| 7 | Mind you , some do a double-take when they see me in the flesh . |
| 8 | My men , whom I had instructed to keep close together and sing from the time they left the camp until they joined me on the forest road , were not due for an hour and a half , and during this time it was more than likely that the tigress would break cover and try to stalk or rush me . |
| 9 | I would n't play for the team if they paid me . |
| 10 | The prowl-car boys handed me downstairs and gave me the hands-flat-against-the-roof-of-the-car routine while they frisked me . |
| 11 | It 's bad enough at first but then it gets worse even as they keep me because they found more , they found two more and that was while I was here for Christ 's sake while they held me while things were still happening more stuff came in while they were questioning me and they looked at me with disbelief horror disgust and I was going What ? |
| 12 | My grandad was a barber and my mother was a hairdresser so they taught me how to cut hair and it came in very useful , especially when I did National Service . |
| 13 | I would n't let anyone see them , not even Cal — they 're part of me — I would n't show them around any more than I 'd lie flat on my back while they slit me open and stared at my pulsating innards . |
| 14 | ‘ Four different priests gave me conditional absolution before they got me out . |
| 15 | If I do have to stay in the cells over Christmas I 'll make sure I ruin your wedding tackle before they take me down . ’ |
| 16 | No doubt if I had responded to Hilda and Annie and the rest as they told me I should respond , as they all told me my true nature , my deeper nature was crying out to respond , I would be surrounded today by love and wives and children and the rest . |
| 17 | It 's one of the delightful , I 've been recruiting for a long time and it 's it 's one of those erm delightful things to be able to say to people on the phone when they tell me they 're fifty or fifty four to say that 's not a problem . |
| 18 | I can even compare them with nationally agreed criteria and say how well they have done , and grade them against each other when they leave me , if I must . |
| 19 | ‘ People were hugging and kissing each other as my car powered its way to the finish as they joined me in an early celebration . |
| 20 | Because it 's a month since they sent me a quote and actually we want a big one for our lounge but |
| 21 | They searched my whole flat before they took me , looking for things like Durex , and to see whether I kept any books of accounts , of girls giving me money , all this sort of thing . |
| 22 | I admit I might not have paid much attention to an anonymous delivery girl , but they do n't normally bolt when they see me , which attracted my attention . |
| 23 | Because we have to have another door so they giving me a third off . |
| 24 | No not really — they just sit down and they listen to me and they 'll say something — " Brenda where you come from ? " [ laughs ] somefin' like that , you know what I mean , cause I 'm born English so they aks me what I want to speak Patois for ? |
| 25 | I did n't know what career I wanted which baffled the system so they sent me to Edinburgh for a year . |
| 26 | I 'm gon na lift a few mint roots Stefan and er plant them in a box of compost and put them in the warm greenhouse so they give me nice sprigs of fresh mint in a few months ' time . |
| 27 | They dropped their voices to a whisper when they saw me but I 'd seen them taking nips from a bottle of gin . |
| 28 | I have been dead for a long time and by day I circle the huge air above the hills and by night I sleep in the quiet rock , as quiet as the rock , and the little worms mean consolation as they eat me . |
| 29 | I 'm frank and candid by nature and so perhaps not surprisingly my career was blocked , former friends learned to cross the street when they saw me coming and I quickly became a non-person ; a communist speciality . |