Example sentences of "[coord] they [verb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 2 | They do not understand the basis of the argument and they ask me to explain the Government 's position . |
| 3 | Now they have aerial wires attached to the masts and they made me think they must intend to use her for some sort of electronic surveillance . |
| 4 | Another time I went to St Kew primary , which is really small and right out in the middle of nowhere , and they made me feel really welcome . |
| 5 | ‘ They were really kind to me and they made me feel that they genuinely cared . ’ |
| 6 | I 've seen the Fire guys and they told me to ask for an Inspector Ball . |
| 7 | I went to see them as well and they told me to fill in another form . |
| 8 | Well , I phoned them up , and I 'd been badgering them , and they told me to wait for a further communication . |
| 9 | I fetched the rum and they told me to go away . |
| 10 | I gave him the money and they told me to walk on and not look back because they would be following me . |
| 11 | Still they were a generous , friendly bunch and they told me to make myself at home until the editorial meeting later in the afternoon . |
| 12 | I went for an audition and they told me to come back in six months time I was determined to get the part so I practised day and night to be him . ’ |
| 13 | Two army medics who were getting ready to deal with such things in the wild were also there , and they kept me laughing so much that I was wobbling up and down while the surgeon was trying to operate . |
| 14 | A group of friends was going to St Servan near St Malo and they asked me to join them . |
| 15 | Her first commission came about quite casually : ‘ My husband and I had gone to stay with friends and they asked me to do a charcoal drawing of their Dachshund , Rosy . |
| 16 | And er erm they saw me on the you know television programme and they asked me to go go to the school and |
| 17 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |
| 18 | The next morning someone from the production office turned up and said , ‘ Please can we have our actor back , ’ and they let me go . |
| 19 | Well when we went there was Phyllis , Julie , and me and I was in the middle of because I 'd never been on ice skates before , I 'd been roller skating holding each side of them right , and they let me go and I just went and I was going down and I went bang right on the bloody side . |
| 20 | ‘ I said I was unfairly handicapped , and they let me do extra Latin instead , ’ she said . |
| 21 | I did , and they let me run . |
| 22 | I could feel it , and they let me join in . |
| 23 | I liked working with Ted and Eva , and they let me come and go more or less as I wished . |
| 24 | ‘ the social workers wo n't allocate the case because they 're short staffed — and they expect me to get Winnie moved . ’ |
| 25 | And they leave me to sign the post , the paperwork , run up and down the stairs , doing this , that and the other , talking to , my things across here are training sessions , incoming , tea card collection because my collections are usually like they 're a part-timer , and phone calls from reception , oh , you can take it . |
| 26 | ‘ I was at Queen Eleanor 's and they urged me to go to university , but I wanted to be independent , so I came into the Met . ’ |
| 27 | Well I mean that when we start organization and I am on , I 'm on Cortille and on the committee and they wanted me to take over the Vice Chairman and I said no way . |
| 28 | But they were going for a walk , they had come in to make him go with them , and they wanted me to go too . |
| 29 | ‘ I told the IFA that if we got to the World Cup finals and they wanted me to stay on I would and if we did not qualify I would stand down , ’ says Bingham . |
| 30 | they offered me two for a boat , right and they offered me one while I was there , then I got home and they offered me one that late that evening , job , erm working like that was a Thursday and they wanted me to start on the week Monday , I could n't do it as it happens I had to give my weeks notice here get out there that quick , so I fucking said , I said to myself well they 've first day , they 're gon na offer me a few more , so yeah they offered me a couple more but way from so , a bit unlucky I , I wished I 'd fucking taken it |