Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the houses — never a window opened — in the cars , in the gruesome , echoing hypermarkets set in the middle of nowhere ( where they wished you a ‘ nice day ’ at 10 pm ) . |
| 2 | That would drive him to madness , to the place they most wanted him , the place in which it would be even more difficult to find the Key ; an institution , a hospital where they filled you up with all sorts of disgusting drugs and deliberately kept you as stupid as the rest . |
| 3 | If you want an Italian restaurant where the waiters bring you menus instead of shouting at you , where they leave the lights on instead of turning them off every twenty minutes , and where they make you get up and dance before they 'll turn them on again , then do n't try the Vecchio Reccione , however convenient it is for Stringfellows . |
| 4 | But because of the cloth ’ — he now pulled at the front of his collarless coat — ‘ they either think that one is n't quite human and is devoid of all these naughty feelings that trouble an ordinary man , or they imagine you hold all the answers . |
| 5 | It does n't matter if these two people here , these two appointments are a bunch of wombats or they hate you , or you just , it does n't matter . |
| 6 | They cripple you or they kill you . |
| 7 | Often bad things happen after — you know , like you 're taken away to school , or they tell you someone died or summat like that . |
| 8 | b ) Spontaneous — that is , new words heard when you visit neighbours or they visit you ; an insight into grammar gained while you are on a fishing trip with friends , and so on . |
| 9 | They usually deal with the situation in one of two ways — they patronise you and try to take control on the assumption that you must need their guidance to do a decent job ; or they undermine you by making obscene remarks and deliberately causing problems . |
| 10 | In an encounter with a high status role the options are few — they can agree to do as they 're told ( in which case you , the teacher , end up doing all the decision-making ) or they can refuse ; it 's a battle of wits and wills : you remain in control or they overthrow you . |
| 11 | Well we had to keep somebody on watch in case there was any damage , say the ship was up the river and a chain broke or they hit you , so you had to put your navigation lights up and to put navigation lights up we had hurricane lamps , we had a red and a white one , they should have been six foot apart , they never were they was about three foot . |
| 12 | You get a staff of women together and then they either get married or they leave you " . |
| 13 | ‘ Say , you 're much taller than they said you were , ’ exclaims Bridget Fonda as a pouting nymphet putting the moves on the diminutive star . |
| 14 | things are looking clearer now than they did you know a few weeks ago . |
| 15 | So you can give away more than they , they gi than they pay you ? |
| 16 | ‘ They want to show you that they trust you . ’ |
| 17 | No this is the o yeah , this is the one that they sent you see ? |
| 18 | As long as you can show that they owed you a legal duty to be careful and have been negligent , damages could come your way . |
| 19 | The importance of these is that they make you think and help you recognise what it is that ‘ makes you tick ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ and what I particularly like is the way that they make you feel so welcome . |
| 21 | These are still very general in the sense that they tell you what kind of relations you would have to look for to turn Poulantzas ' scheme into an explanatory tool , rather than what relations of these types there actually are . |
| 22 | The only problem with the guides is that they tell you little of the quality of the goods in the shop . |
| 23 | it 's , it 's , it 's ridiculous I just think it 's very unfair that they regard you that way . |
| 24 | The danger is that they stop you looking . |
| 25 | Striding across the room , he thrust his harsh , angry face towards hers , ‘ Oh , yes , Hilary , you explained , and in such a way that they thought you could n't be bothered . ’ |
| 26 | In order to fill this in , this little er section you have to look at the er the chapter that they recommend you , er Saint Matthew 's Gospel chapter twenty eight . |
| 27 | I mean they there was a fact that they knew you were unemployed er or was n't in any s You were yours yourself a target . |
| 28 | So high were these prison walls , indeed , that they left you wondering at the build of the common Italian criminal . |
| 29 | They all have their styles , they all have their formats , and they 're all written in such a way that they draw you in . |
| 30 | That they ask you specific questions of that naming it 's a multi-choice more importantly in your written answers you will have to in , you are expected to include and correct systematic ohms for any organics that you deal with . |