Example sentences of "they just [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't really like the people at OUCA [ the Oxford University Conservative Association ] , they just struck me as spotty spods . ’ |
| 2 | They just told me he was . |
| 3 | I 'm shouting at the 4th one not to do them so tight because I could n't move my fingers and they just told me to shut my mouth and go quietly . |
| 4 | I exaggerate , of course : they do n't go in for tears , they just ignore me . |
| 5 | I — ' She turned to Ben now , saying , ‘ I do n't know why I was afraid , they just made me afraid . |
| 6 | ‘ To begin with the police would n't touch me , they just took me home to my parents . |
| 7 | She said : ‘ They knew what I was doing , but they just let me carry on . ’ |
| 8 | No , they just accepted me . |
| 9 | They just tease me , because I 'm … . ’ |
| 10 | But they just ignored me then . |
| 11 | Garry Thompson , the Coventry City footballer , told how he was made to take stock of his colour slightly earlier , just after beginning secondary school in Birmingham : ‘ I went up to some guys and asked to play football and they just shut me out . |
| 12 | ‘ It is best if they just tell me she was drowned . ’ |
| 13 | I keep having hot flushes , know what I mean ? but d' you think they care ? they just follow me round saying ‘ Miss we 've dropped a stitch ’ . |
| 14 | They just stuck me in here . |
| 15 | They just make me nervous . |
| 16 | They just asked me 'Where 's your money ? ' |
| 17 | It , it was one of those chips and ju they just asked me a minute . |
| 18 | Though they did n't read much they had a huge library and they just left me to it so I did read without direction . |
| 19 | er I went in the office and he said er I 'd been stood there about twenty minutes at the window and everybody was flitting around like a bee from flower to flower and they just left me stood there , so I never said anything , go on the back |
| 20 | They just put me up for it and I just happened to be about at the time . |
| 21 | Why ca n't they just ransom me ? |
| 22 | I 've nothing against them , they just hate me , so I became a founder member of the Campaign for Quill Pens and Ink . |
| 23 | What if , like my poor neighbour , I was to be so riddled with cancer , that after cutting me open , they just sewed me up and sent me home ? |
| 24 | ‘ They just wanted me to swallow it hook , line and sinker , ’ a disillusioned student said . |
| 25 | ‘ They did n't pay me no wages , not real wages , they just gave me a bob now and again , and me board and lodgin' , and some clothes . |
| 26 | They did n't give me methadone , they just gave me I think it was 30 milligrams of Librium and two sleepers of a night time … . |
| 27 | Yes , I know they just gave me a little walk on part . |
| 28 | No she 's only staying tonight and they think , they just phoned me up then and they were on the square , I think she 's going home phorr what 's that smell , it stinks what ? |
| 29 | They just call me Morse . ’ |