Example sentences of "they [vb past] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been on the committee of the Scottish region , as it was ten called , since 1984 — ‘ they flung me on as naive new blood ’ — — and was vice-chairman for two years before becoming chairman at the tender age of 25 . |
| 2 | Before they met me , Steve and Paul were just petty criminals , did n't know nothing about nothing . |
| 3 | So anyway , erm they met me and Bert had to go back to his office and Will said he had to go back to his office , but he said , What would you like to do ? |
| 4 | ‘ They expected me to be a lawyer too . |
| 5 | ‘ They said it would be all right if I had the serial numbers but I do n't think they expected me back , ’ she said . |
| 6 | They expected me to live on supplementary benefit so I was having to work the street , trying to get my house together . |
| 7 | Like the lost chord , they haunted me . |
| 8 | They got me in 1979 when Eamonn Andrews hosted the show . |
| 9 | Michaela , 26 , said : ‘ They got me looking for wallabies and scorpions living wild in Britain . |
| 10 | I think they got me this lovely velvet one . |
| 11 | So this morning the fat little chap in the long white coat who was sorting us out in the Dean 's Office said I 'd better come along here for a few days until they got me organized with another partner . |
| 12 | There was a pile of really filthy-looking blankets on the bed , they got me some sheets and a towel , and I managed to get an extra pillow because of my asthma . |
| 13 | And then they got me to sign a form , they did n't say what it was for . |
| 14 | ‘ Four different priests gave me conditional absolution before they got me out . |
| 15 | Yes and er I er they got me on that and I 'd er seen a bit on it before hand one way or another , but I went to a place and , and asked them if I could er see and er they showed me and explained it , the er the way to er . |
| 16 | ‘ They got me out of the ward and put me under a sheet in this side room . |
| 17 | Well , they got me out , and into our trenches , and patched me up , and I was just leaving when the Huns started shelling . |
| 18 | But they did , they got me to change , because I suppose all the words up there , and I 'm gon na find three most significant ones that and change , er , because while you influence somebody to turn from what they were doing , probably not too often , but it 's usually about something , when you think about the examples that you brought along , and you knew all about change . |
| 19 | ‘ They got me on the face , stomach and legs . |
| 20 | ‘ They got me going by guaranteeing my expenses until I started to win some prize money . |
| 21 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |
| 22 | When Ivy went to see her she said oh Mrs Mr came to see me yesterday afternoon he brought another gentleman with him , a nice gentleman so I she said I think they were taking the census , they got me to sign a paper . |
| 23 | Yeah they got me and I had to turn into one of them octopus things . |
| 24 | Cos whoever it was they got me in trouble . |
| 25 | eighty pound if it 's not one thing you know it 's fortnight ago from Co-Op it 's forty one P a packet , went last week it was forty six P a packet , so Richard and Angela went the other day for nan and they got me some at same time , she leant me the money , yeah , cos I was absolutely broke , gone back down again to forty one |
| 26 | During an opera we had a lighting change and they misinformed me about the weights . |
| 27 | I says if they lent me it erm well they might want us to watch it now and lend it to someone else . |
| 28 | They made me look and sound like a freak : ‘ Gon na build a mown-tine . ’ |
| 29 | They made me wonder if I could use pure woven wool as a base for my own technique with the machine . |
| 30 | It was awful , because although I 'd worn the dress all day , and stuck up for myself , I did feel bad about it ; they made me feel bad , sort of guilty , as if I was showing off my body . |