Example sentences of "they [verb] you [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I do n't even know if you have a mother or father , or whether they made you up in a test tube . |
2 | " They want you out of the way . " |
3 | I was getting DF118s — painkillers but they knock you out at the same time . |
4 | First they send you all round the town and then you get processed into a system with thousands of other people and it does n't feel at all like driving to a town on the coast and just getting on a boat . |
5 | ‘ So , is that how you earned your living , once they drove you out of the dorf ? |
6 | Or if they do manage to put you in a bedroom , remember that you 've got a whole camera team there , and they usually want to do some extraordinary shot from very close up , so they put you right on the edge of the bed , probably on a board which you 're about to fall off at any minute . |
7 | The only problem with the guides is that they tell you little of the quality of the goods in the shop . |
8 | ‘ They tell you only about the big names and the famous dates . |
9 | ‘ How long were you driving for after they took you away from the family ? ’ |
10 | And we flew from er that was from London , we flew from the Croydon Airport in London , and er we , you went down to er an , a small office near Victoria Station in these days and er you w we , you put your luggage in there and then they took you out on a special bus to Croydon . |
11 | ‘ They took you out of the truck ? ’ |
12 | They twirled you around in the Gay Gordons at Ilkley with clammy hands . |
13 | Do they feed you well in the mess ? ’ |
14 | I 've just rung and you get the usual b-shit at first then they patch you through to the club-call line in England . |
15 | Have they thrown you out of the club ? ’ |
16 | er I mean it depends I suppose the extent to which there 's any tutorial element but I mean erm whether they have you there for a week or something and teach you some of the practical |