Example sentences of "they [verb] my [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poppa says I can go to London or Paris and have them make my trousseau if I want . ’ |
| 2 | It nearly killed them to acknowledge my existence and they only spoke in monosyllables when I was present , but the babble of sound which broke out every time I went out and closed the door behind me was enough to make me want to go rushing straight to Miss Malley to beg her to send me back to my friends . |
| 3 | But one of them wants my daughter to die , and one wants her to be free . ’ |
| 4 | One of them approached my master and tapped him gently on the chest , speaking in a high sing-song fashion . |
| 5 | ‘ I bargained with them to regain my body and my powers . |
| 6 | Oh I took our books down to the library today and there 's two in three of got do n't let them use my razor Jean ! |
| 7 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 8 | I was so elated and relieved I could have kissed them , but immediately felt ashamed that I 'd let them see my fear . |
| 9 | First there 's Shelley , cos first of all I did n't want to talk in it , you know , I just went like yeah , yeah , yeah , no , sort of like yes , I wan na talk down it all the time , I want them to hear my voice ! |
| 10 | And so , if I do that for the army and then get them to do my degree as well . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not being inhospitable , ’ he explained , ‘ but we have to assume the chance of them having my house and office both wired , and I imagine Number 10 would n't like that . |
| 12 | I was told to sit down for about five hours in a hall , to wait for them to call my name out , to go to see the doctor . |
| 13 | I 've tried loads of different mousses but most of them irritate my skin . |
| 14 | ‘ Have they heard my news already ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't know if it was false alarm or they got my name confused , ’ he said . |
| 16 | I do n't know where they got my name , or why they thought I was suitable material for their article . ’ |
| 17 | They got my name wrong ( ‘ Dear Mr Burndige … ’ ) and sent it to my work address for some reason . |
| 18 | They , they , they did get me , and I do n't know how they got my number . |
| 19 | And three men hurried through the carriage before an American woman 's shout , ‘ They got my bag ! |
| 20 | They got my bag ! |
| 21 | So they got my wedding ring off , but I still ca n't get it on . |
| 22 | And they got a fright when they got my report and all . |
| 23 | They concerned my mother 's paternal grandfather who had spent a great many years in southern Africa — Natal and Cape Colony . |
| 24 | As soon as they realised my charge was arson I was left to sit in the cubicle : everybody else disappeared . |
| 25 | They made my day . |
| 26 | I was running up an unauthorised overdraft , too ; I 'd stopped opening statements ages before because they made my hand shake and my tummy wobble . |
| 27 | ‘ I had five great years at Wimbledon , winning an FA Cup medal , and they made my career — so there is no bad feeling from me for Sam Hammam . |
| 28 | That 's where my dad was and they made my mother |
| 29 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 30 | We come along and they passed my load and they turned his load away . |