Example sentences of "so they [verb] me " in BNC.
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1 | Apparently I 'd chosen to pee up against a police station , so they took me inside , and told me off , and of course I apologized . |
2 | I did n't know what career I wanted which baffled the system so they sent me to Edinburgh for a year . |
3 | She would n't know how to use a real weapon ( fnar fnar ) , so they sent me a to sharpen my axe on this month 's adventure offerings . |
4 | They ca n't fuck me , so they protect me . |
5 | Kelly Johnson had just left and so they asked me to join . |
6 | No not really — they just sit down and they listen to me and they 'll say something — " Brenda where you come from ? " [ laughs ] somefin' like that , you know what I mean , cause I 'm born English so they aks me what I want to speak Patois for ? |
7 | Now I know it 's a lot to expect , what with your sister still only nineteen , and the old a ‘ Buck ’ being every year of sixty five , so they tells me , but May and September 's always been a heady mix , and the old fool seems besotted . ’ |
8 | It 's not that bad , it 's just that red and green are fairly important colours to people who try to wave down planes and things like that , so they told me that being a pilot was definitely out . |
9 | She said , no you write and he 'll , she 'll write back , you see but , and he went out to France and he was killed in three months and and his name , so they told me was on the er , on the board at er . |
10 | At this moment two people grabbed me to try to make me get up but I could not get up , so they kicked me and stamped all over me from head to toe . |
11 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
12 | ‘ So they tell me . |
13 | ‘ Then I actually left Girlschool in 1989 because I got fed up with their attitude , although they 've changed now — so they tell me ! |
14 | I am King of England — or so they tell me ! |
15 | No elil for miles , or so they tell me . |
16 | ‘ So they tell me . ’ |
17 | I did n't suffer from morning sickness but I 've become an insomniac over the months and had the good fortune ( or so they tell me ) to have a healthy foetus that started kicking me at thirteen weeks . |
18 | Made time is the best time , so they tell me . ’ |
19 | The blending of two territories , so they tell me . |
20 | And I 'm a quick learner , so they tell me , ’ Kate responded with an innocent look . |
21 | Or so they tell me . ) |
22 | Nest of perverts , so they tell me , I wo n't have 'em in my service if I can help it . |
23 | Having a bath , standing on the weighing-scales ; sun-bathing in Spain — so they tell me . ’ |
24 | ‘ So they tell me . ’ |
25 | That 's the suppose it 's in now it 's up by the Mauritania down in Park Street so they tell me . |
26 | My grandad was a barber and my mother was a hairdresser so they taught me how to cut hair and it came in very useful , especially when I did National Service . |
27 | It was not Diana 's day to lunch so they gave me her secluded table from which to view the proceedings . |
28 | IMC could , but there was no legal way to transfer information — so they gave me a virus and I implanted it into the starsuits . |
29 | The professors realized that I was doing very important work , and so they gave me my own laboratory . |
30 | Yeah called me in two days so they gave me today and tomorrow off as well , so it 's sort of gone longer than I expected you know ? |