Example sentences of "they [verb] me [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They got me out of the ward and put me under a sheet in this side room . |
| 2 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 3 | I 'm left with the fact that they knock me up in the middle of the night , turn my place over , give me a hard time , then just forget about it all . |
| 4 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 5 | They let me out for the day and then , when he regained consciousness five days later , they let me out again to see him . |
| 6 | ‘ They let me in on the secret quite early — then people started joking about it . |
| 7 | They drove me back to the Ministry , where I was questioned by an officer I 'd never seen before , a colonel . |
| 8 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 9 | and they fetched me down at the hospital |
| 10 | ‘ They threw me out of the hostel . |
| 11 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 12 | Apparently when they pulled me out of the river and bashed the water out of my belly the first thing I said as I came round was , ‘ Riddled with diseases , I 'm sure ’ and the crew broke up in this hysterical laughter . |
| 13 | In fact , they whisked me off to the Nanking Workers ' Hospital , where I stayed in ‘ solitary confinement ’ until this afternoon . |
| 14 | Y'know , with only these two lads coming round the house and then both of them got bust in one of the lads ’ house and they blew me up as the one who was supplying them . |
| 15 | They took me down to the labour room . |
| 16 | They took me down to the labour ward and offered me a sedative to help me sleep . |
| 17 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he said , in a conversational tone , ‘ then they took me down to the morgue . ’ |
| 18 | Joe recalls : ‘ When it was all over they took me back to the room , chained me up , and that was the very last I ever heard of it . |
| 19 | The Men came for me where I huddled in the marram grass and they took me back to the low cage . |
| 20 | ‘ That night , they took me out into the desert and beat me . |
| 21 | They took me out with the wounded . |
| 22 | By Sunday evening , though , I was getting back to myself and expected to be let out in a day or two but they kept me in for the week , giving me tests , including an electrocardiogram . ’ |
| 23 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |
| 24 | The flowers that I had still been clutching when they carried me back to the house had been prised from my fingers and left in a plastic bag on top of the fridge . |
| 25 | ‘ They kicked me out at the end . |