Example sentences of "and [conj] they [verb] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ It was the first time that he realized there were officers and that they treat you badly because you 're not like them . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | T. D. There were always twenty or thirty or so bucks hanging around the corner on Nichols Street , and if they saw you coming , they 'd all move . |
| 5 | Well this was a Manpower Board that came round and they was inspecting erm what people were doing in the particular factory at and if they thought you 'd be more useful somewhere else then they 'd direct you to another factory . |
| 6 | It takes only a few thousands of eV ( keV ) to bring two nuclei together and if they fuse you get over a million eV ( MeV ) in return . |
| 7 | And if they ask you to it probably means they 're in trouble anyway . |
| 8 | 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 ? ’ |
| 9 | some of them of failed , and if they fail you have to pay so much . |
| 10 | You were half-way to being a lady 's maid with these private patients and if they wanted you to paint their fingernails while they told you their life histories you could n't choose but obey . |
| 11 | They know quite a few of us , do n't they , and if they see you , they nick you . |
| 12 | Ed 's comment : Test kits can quickly deteriorate with age , and if they do you will of course get variable results from them . |
| 13 | And if they say you ca n't at school well alright close you eyes and count , pretend there are some fingers there like that . |
| 14 | right , well that 's the sort of things that I think we want to find out and in slower time I was actually going to ring the yeah at Telford and say speak to me about this and maybe pop in one morning on my way into town and just say this is the idea how does it grab you and if they say you 're not on fine , but it 's things like that that I think we want to explore . |
| 15 | Because er while I 've had wedding cake from people and and they give you a little bit and I 've said to you have n't I , well I would n't have bothered giving anybody this . |
| 16 | And while they force you to be what you do not want to be , they are also teaching you how to be parents . |
| 17 | This goes back in section two , yes , and when they give you your induction report , which we 've still got to put some results on , that goes back in section three . |