Example sentences of "they have [verb] my [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd told them I had immigration problems and that they 'd stopped my benefit .
2 Younis told me that they 'd taken my picture because I 'd hidden it .
3 They 'd taken my girlfriend away from me in the real world , why must they take away her picture ?
4 ‘ A lot of women would n't have the nerve to wear this , possum ( how they wish they 'd had my recipe for stretch-mark ointment ) but I feel I have to thrust ahead at the forefront of fashion .
5 Did you say they 'd got my phone tapped ? ’
6 They 've saved my club four and a half thousand pound a year .
7 They 've made my life Hell … a dying man 's anger over threat to evict his family .
8 They 've missed my rose garden and marched into the river .
9 As Ruza fell wounded , the dead girl 's mother Svetlana screamed : ‘ My daughter is dead and now they 've injured my mother . ’
10 Yeah , they 've sent my letter , twenty eighth I 've got to go .
11 I 'll go and see if they 've got my wildlife book and I 'll meet you in
12 Erm the simple reason is I 've been signing on , erm they 've suspended my unemployment .
13 They 've taken my man and my job ; let me keep my home .
14 Well they 've sorted my back out .
15 So they 've changed my mind for me .
16 A week later I was invited to take a look at the finished model , discovering then to my horror they had reproduced my sketch to the letter .
17 They had removed my house and everything in it , ’ he said .
18 If only they had shown my foresight they would have had nothing to worry about .
19 Moments later they had taken my picture and were on their way .
20 They had drugged my wine before moving me to that horror-filled garden .
21 They have broadened my view of life ’ .
22 ( They have ignored my existence to this very day . )
23 They say they have obtained my name and address from an agency : clearly they have decided to market them in the North-East in a big way . ’
24 He then staggered uphill to a courting couple and pleaded : ‘ Help me , I think they have murdered my girlfriend and burned her alive . ’
25 They have taken my life away , my young child from me that I have always wanted , and after just three years and ten months .
26 There were a lot of street girls and petty criminals , he called them his pros and cons , but one of them had seen my daughter Pippa a week earlier in a cafeteria somewhere near .
27 I told them how I had worked on the problem and now one of them had ruined my theory !
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