Example sentences of "they be [v-ing] [verb] me a " in BNC.

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1 They 're beginning to give me a headache . ’
2 They keep saying they 're going to find me a house and say they 're going to buy me one .
3 At Heathrow Wendy Hoyte was being met by her husband Les and they were going to give me a lift back into London .
4 But then the lady came back on again — you know , the one who spoke to me first — and she said ‘ Thank you very much , ’ and she told me they were going to send me a prize of — wait for it — 5 .
5 Yes , I have at last , and the I 'm sure that they lied in their teeth , they they assured me they had written to me after my second letter in March , er in fact , and they said they were going to send me a photocopy of that , in fact er she wrote me a letter in June , so I do n't believe the other one existed ,
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