Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] me [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it was quite a victory , looking at ‘ The Aztecs ’ , that they allowed me some leeway there : having me chosen as the wife of the Warrior , which more or less said , look she 's marriageable now . |
| 2 | I mean in terms of population I think I somebody did er Strathclyde regional council used to be a client of mine when I was with Three M er well you know a client of my rep up here but er and they told me some time that I think a huge percentage of the whole of Scotland 's population |
| 3 | And Ford 's put up a lot of the money and so they wanted their cut from the publicity , and they gave me another award , and their manager in Brighton came to present it . |
| 4 | And they says , Well a person who lived in your flat before you had a telly , you know and they gave me some excuse , you know that the the the person who lived in here before me had ripped them off and they says , How do we know that you 're not that person , you know things like that . |
| 5 | I read them , furtively , like boys do pornography , and they showed me another world . |
| 6 | ‘ Some friends who were with me on holiday in Romania talked about the idea and when they contacted me this year saying they were going to do the ride I told them I was more than willing to join them , ’ said Karen , who teaches at Applegarth Primary School , Northallerton . |