Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] they [vb base] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal |
| 3 | ‘ And while you 're getting out of there , you run straight into a patrol car and they arrest you after a chase . |
| 4 | An annuity is an arrangement with a financial institution whereby , if you are over retirement age and do not want to leave your property to anyone when you die , they will effectively buy your house from you ( albeit at a bit less than the market price ) , give you guaranteed security of tenure until you die , and turn the money that they pay you for the house into a regular income for life . |
| 5 | ‘ I very rarely go out at weekends but if someone sees you in a pub once they assume you must be a real nightclubber . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | But these countries do not accept immigrants readily and you will need to have a skill before they let you in . |
| 8 | this is just for your test when they ask you |
| 9 | And the reps on the holiday co coach when they take you from airport , sometimes say yes and sometimes say no . |
| 10 | Then you have to go and have a bath and see the nurse , and she checks your hair and they check you for VD . |
| 11 | he had , he had a definite attitude problem so they said they would relieve him of his contract oh that 's fair enough , they 're paying you good money and they expect you to work hard and that 's it but we finish at one o'clock next term |
| 12 | Excellent , it just store any , it stores energy , it does n't make any itself and that 's the point that they want you to make erm normal little throw away batteries that you have in your tape recorder or something , they produce energy , they do n't have energy sort of put into them , chemicals and things . |
| 13 | If you get in the wrong part of a ruck and they think you are stopping them getting the ball , you get raked . |
| 14 | You 're not taken to the same wing because they think you might fight again . |
| 15 | It will be equally difficult to persuade them of your need when they know you spent a lot of money last week on a new car . |
| 16 | Er where do you go if you go to court and they find you guilty ? and they lock you up . |
| 17 | Suppose you 're an expert document examiner outside the service and they call you for the defence . |
| 18 | Telephone message forms are even better than a pad as they prevent you from forgetting to ask relevant questions . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A piece of paper that they give you which tells us what . |
| 21 | Then you have a bath and they give you a towel and soap . |
| 22 | But there 's also the problem that you lose respect if they allow you to get away with too much . ’ |
| 23 | So they 're telling you what their needs are , how concerned they are about it and what they wan na do about it because they 're more inclined to take your advice when they see you second time round , because telling is n't selling . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | You 've only got to solve the silly simple thing that they give you which is |
| 26 | It 's a a a re a really nice restaurant but you can pick all your food raw and they just , there 's a chef cooking , and you just get one of these plates , you can have as many helpings as you want , they serve you a cold starter and a hot starter but there 's a buffet that 's about half the size of our club and one side of it it 's all fish on a wet fish slab , and steak , and veal , and chicken and so there 's every sort of meat you can think of , and you can pick a wooden platter full of it , so you go and give it the chef with this number that they give you and then they come serve you with whatever you want . |
| 27 | ‘ Be soft with this London lot and they take you for a ride . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | Knock ! jokes with great care and use them sparingly otherwise your friends will lay land mines in the garden path when they know you 're coming or train sabre-toothed ninja attack sparrows . |
| 30 | ‘ Look , Zack , I frankly do n't give a shit whether they capture you or not . |