Example sentences of "and they [vb base] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have passed on to them the teaching and worship tapes sent on to e here and they have asked me to thank you sincerely and they ask you to continue to pray for them . |
| 2 | And yet they recognize unions and they ask you to apply your , er to yourself . |
| 3 | After that you go into a big room and they look through your clothes and they ask you questions , then you have to pull your knickers down to your knees and do a twizzle , twist round , pull your pants up and put your dressing-gown back on . |
| 4 | Well , I suppose , if somebody 's going around with an opinion pole , and they ask you about a certain , what you think about a certain thing , that , that , presume what their asking about , may affect everybody in different way |
| 5 | This is why they ask you things like , on interviews , and they ask you , where do you see yourself in five years ' time , and I used to say , I do n't even see meself where I 'm going to be in five days ' time , never mind five , just give us the bloody job . |
| 6 | So , and they charge you for how many electrons you use . |
| 7 | I do n't think it 's really clean , and they charge you for it ! |
| 8 | You have betrayed them , and they hate you for it . |
| 9 | If someone comes and they 've actually run out of food , and they 've you know , for some reason or other their giro is either held up or you know , they 've had a big expense er which they 've had to pay , then we would provide them with something . |
| 10 | And Alexander McGlashan of Eastertyre — you know them all , and they know you , and by now they will be expecting us . |
| 11 | As another said , ‘ Being a neighbourhood man , you get to know all the people in the area to chat to them , and they know you to talk to and that ’ ( FN 28/4/87 p. 5 ) . |
| 12 | But you come back and they know you . |
| 13 | erm , only that sort of rules , probably a big advantage I think of staying in er sixth form is that erm you know the staff , you know the system and it and they know you , erm if you go |
| 14 | do n't matter , it just feels clean , I 've had it short and shaped , have a good shape on it and do you know the next time you have it cut I do n't know you want looking at , now the next time you go , go to the Darrow in Milford yeah because you 're in problems and they know you need it because he 'll give you a good shape on it and then you have it shaped once a month or once every three weeks or once a fortnight and keep it looking nice that way and it 's four pounds , four ninety nine , four ninety , four seventy five yeah but just keep it nice and shaped and it wo n't look any different , there ai n't nothing wrong with it mm mm mm no no right , right , right tra la |
| 15 | And they tell you that two AS-levels are equal to an A-level when it comes to applying for university places . ’ |
| 16 | Ask them if they are working-class or middle-class , and they tell you ‘ This is our fate , sister , to work , to slave , in Pakistan too some of us had to do the hard , hard work on the fields . |
| 17 | ‘ And they tell you to tidy your room . |
| 18 | That 's right , so I 'm hoping Thursday it 's an advisory erm session and they tell you what you should do , what you , how to get there , you know |
| 19 | You got ta guess the weight of this Christmas pudding that 's a great big Christmas pudding , and they tell you how many j erm jars of this and how many tins of that and how many pounds of sugar and and you 've got ta guess the weight . |
| 20 | But if you did and said can you sell me some erm emulsion paint , which is non-drip , and they sell you some matt paint , which drips , then clearly they 've sold you something which was not fit for the purpose that you had specified . |
| 21 | ‘ Be soft with this London lot and they take you for a ride . |
| 22 | They 've helped me with the baby , they take her away for a couple of hours a day , and they take you out to places — sports centres and hospitals . |
| 23 | And that 's led to a change in the guitars , as well , because any guitar with a tremolo arm is a guitar with a trapdoor , an escape route you can take any time you 're feeling uncomfortable — and they make you lazy with your finger vibrato as well . |
| 24 | and prevent you from erm and they make you healthy and really fit and everything . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , Charity , your whole problem is that you 're accustomed to people bowing down before you because you 're a doctor and they assume you walk with the gods . |
| 26 | so that it does n't alienate the person and , and , and they regard you as a , you know and that 's actually probably quite tricky , except of course that you ca n't just let them off , because you are actually an officer of the court . |
| 27 | ‘ I have to walk to the bus stop , and when I wait for the bus there 's some of them slag me off and they push you about . |
| 28 | so on a Sunday I used to say right I 'm not gon na take my tablets today because it 's a waste of a tablet if you 're gon na eat like that , and on a Sunday I used to be absolutely exhausted because you take them all the time and they keep you going and then when you stop taking them they 've just , you wind down |
| 29 | Of course at school they always tell you that you should do a secretarial course , which was absolutely dreadful , and they put you off the idea of a career in the theatre just as much as they can . |
| 30 | ‘ They 've got a central exchange somewhere up north and they put you on hold till the local mob come in for their tea . ’ |