Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | ‘ Say , you 're much taller than they said you were , ’ exclaims Bridget Fonda as a pouting nymphet putting the moves on the diminutive star . |
| 5 | things are looking clearer now than they did you know a few weeks ago . |
| 6 | So you can give away more than they , they gi than they pay you ? |
| 7 | ‘ Well , perhaps the children 's home did n't have any boys , so they sent you a girl , ’ answered the station-master carelessly . |
| 8 | Or if they do manage to put you in a bedroom , remember that you 've got a whole camera team there , and they usually want to do some extraordinary shot from very close up , so they put you right on the edge of the bed , probably on a board which you 're about to fall off at any minute . |
| 9 | Marks said : ‘ So they made you up to DI . ’ |
| 10 | The younger your child is the less able they are to remember what happened even a few days ago , so they need you to keep in touch with them . |
| 11 | Just one or two people who were who were here from the start so they remembered you know th thi this was this was more or less where the builders finished off , this was about the last house they did |
| 12 | worth a pound off so they give you ten points do they every ? |
| 13 | Good grief it must cost them a fortune to erm you know , pay for all these then , so they give you the Walkman to , while you 're doing this and they give you the batteries , tt |
| 14 | You 're constantly and a motorway going through your house so they give you less than the pro than the market value |
| 15 | And I quickened then , of course you dare n't go to work those days when once they knew you was pregnant it was a case of out . |
| 16 | The bank would advance the money once they knew you were my legatee . " |
| 17 | ‘ I very rarely go out at weekends but if someone sees you in a pub once they assume you must be a real nightclubber . |
| 18 | She can still tell the police you were in that shooting and once they get you , you can forget you ever had any friends or were ever in the Army . |
| 19 | no , once they take you to your places that 's it they do n't take passengers back to town , they finish there |
| 20 | ‘ So , is that how you earned your living , once they drove you out of the dorf ? |
| 21 | are reasonably senior , and the great thing is once they do you one favour that 's it , and it 's better because rather than have , for example a junior police officer , who has no idea of covering his tracks |
| 22 | Cos they do n't half hammer you and if they catch up with you once they watch you like a hawk . |
| 23 | Once they believe you really are an innocent party — or can not be useful to them in finding the ship — then they 've no reason to keep your wife and daughter alive . |
| 24 | Yes , if they put you in a |
| 25 | Oh well , if they put you in Southwold I 'm alright |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm sorry if they upset you , but they were obviously wondering , as I am , how such an obviously intelligent girl allowed herself to get into such a state . ’ |
| 27 | Social activities Provided that they do not stop you going to bed at the proper time , social activities are a very good way of adjusting to the new time zone , particularly if they enable you to spend time out-of-doors in natural daylight at the times recommended in Table 11.2 . |
| 28 | When our children say , as they all do , ‘ but my friends are all doing this ’ , parents invariably say , smartly , ‘ and if they told you to jump off a cliff , would you ? ’ |
| 29 | Now if you think you have been pleasant and helpful , you 've shared things with somebody , if they asked you a question you did n't bang them on the head , you helped , sign it now we come to the real sixty thousand point question , are you ready for this ? |
| 30 | feelings such as anger , worry and guilt are only worth having if they provoke you into doing something effective . |