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 ! |