Example sentences of "they [vb base] me [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It was the way they put me on the right track that made me wonder — guiding angels in the Bible have a habit of appearing as two young men . |
2 | Ah well they put me on the top rate of pay , which was quite good , thirty five shilling a week . |
3 | They put me in the same category as Martinho . |
4 | Sometimes they confuse me with the hon. Member for Walthamstow ( Mr. Summerson ) — I am the hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford , and unemployment in my constituency has not risen to quite the extent that he suggests . |
5 | Well that 's what everybody sings to me when them and they meet me for the first time or get introduced to me . |
6 | And it just goes on keeps going on another night another nightmare and then back to the interview room again and the tape machine again and more questions about Stromefirry-nofirry and Jersey and flights and that 's when they tell me about the other one that 's when they say oh by the way your best friend Andy is dead blown up in the hotel when it burned down ; probably beaten to death first head stoved in but of course you probably know all that because you did that too , did n't you ? |
7 | The first thing they ask me on the 1st tee is , ‘ Billy , tell me all about your family . ' ’ |
8 | In fact , they remind me of the Prudential TV ads ( ‘ I want to be in goal ’ , ‘ I want to be … remembered ! ’ ) . |
9 | The aim is to have about three suits per series — I certainly do n't want to come prancing on every week in something different , but neither do I want people to groan when they see me in the same old suit . |