Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [modal v] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | My friends are Liverpool fans and they say they can get me tickets for the KOP , but no way am I standing with a bunch of idiots . |
| 2 | Soon Alison would know , the Carters would know , everyone would know , and once they knew they would cut me dead . |
| 3 | ‘ This new money , these upstarts , they do n't know their place — they think they can tell me what to do , ’ she went on . |
| 4 | They think they can beat me . |
| 5 | I also got in touch with the real FFL lot at the weekend , they said they 'd send me an information pack . |
| 6 | ‘ They said they 'd kill me , ’ she whispered . |
| 7 | " They said they 'd see me in three years to do my D.Phil. at Oxford . |
| 8 | Now la last There 's two people down here last week , they said they could hear me breathing |
| 9 | Why did they say you would tell me about Van Gogh ? " |