Example sentences of "they [vb past] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 2 | Just watching them made me feel ill . |
| 3 | Some of them became my friends and have remained so until the present day , but the sheer earthy mass of them made me realize how my few months of married life had changed me . |
| 4 | Anyway , one of them told me to stay and gave me a raffle ticket . |
| 5 | One of them slugged me to shut me up . ’ |
| 6 | They expected me to live on supplementary benefit so I was having to work the street , trying to get my house together . |
| 7 | So this morning the fat little chap in the long white coat who was sorting us out in the Dean 's Office said I 'd better come along here for a few days until they got me organized with another partner . |
| 8 | Michaela , 26 , said : ‘ They got me looking for wallabies and scorpions living wild in Britain . |
| 9 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |
| 10 | And then they got me to sign a form , they did n't say what it was for . |
| 11 | When Ivy went to see her she said oh Mrs Mr came to see me yesterday afternoon he brought another gentleman with him , a nice gentleman so I she said I think they were taking the census , they got me to sign a paper . |
| 12 | ‘ They got me going by guaranteeing my expenses until I started to win some prize money . |
| 13 | But they did , they got me to change , because I suppose all the words up there , and I 'm gon na find three most significant ones that and change , er , because while you influence somebody to turn from what they were doing , probably not too often , but it 's usually about something , when you think about the examples that you brought along , and you knew all about change . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , they made me go into the army . |
| 15 | They made me go through the whole thing three times , though I had hardly anything to tell them . |
| 16 | They made me move in to live with them as something they called their au-pair girl , mostly to exercise two new Great Dane puppies . |
| 17 | It was n't until they made me squat down and then taped my wrists to my ankles and stuck me in a large sack that I accepted that it was n't going to be a truck , but a car-boot move . |
| 18 | They made me think of beads and mirrors for the benighted natives . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Those sessions nearly wrecked my hearing for life , but they made me laugh so much and took up so much of my off-duty that , as time went by , sometimes , just sometimes , I was able to laugh at my one-time passion for Bill . |
| 21 | They did n't like the EVO column one bit and finally they made me choose between them and it . ’ |
| 22 | It was awful , because although I 'd worn the dress all day , and stuck up for myself , I did feel bad about it ; they made me feel bad , sort of guilty , as if I was showing off my body . |
| 23 | I half disapproved of these costumes , they made me feel uncomfortable , but at the same time I admired and envied her , she was so original and unconcerned . |
| 24 | But all those reports about Baby George Briant — they made me feel , oh , I do n't know . |
| 25 | They made me feel of some value again and the warmth was flooding through me long before the kettle had boiled on the iron stove in the corner . |
| 26 | They made me feel conservative . |
| 27 | Sheila , who said she put the cigarette out when told to , said : ‘ They made me feel like a criminal . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I hope they read this book and realise how happy they made me feel . |
| 30 | They made me feel muzzy . |