Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 2 | ‘ I said before , I wo n't go where they want me to go . |
| 3 | The gunner of the Fox gave me the final two fingers and I knew the third finger was coming up which meant the " K " gun would be right in my starboard earhole , I put my finger lip and gave the impression I was going to land , whereupon all the Foxes — by this time four or live of them — were given a signal by the leader , and they all turned on their backs and headed where they wanted me to follow . |
| 4 | Where they gave me meat and drink . ’ |
| 5 | Or they call me Ernie . |
| 6 | to be with my friends although they let me sit with me friends so they 're good really so I 'm hoping that I should be able to get back on a Wednesday because er , that 's the only day really I can go , I go to Barn Mead on a Thursday as a rule you see , but yesterday I had to have a day off to go out , I had an invite out |
| 7 | Although they give me a good start for next issue . |
| 8 | Everybody likes you better than they like me said Manyara , the elder sister . |
| 9 | Also , I 've decided not to brush down the table or re-mark it or clean the balls : I reckon a few bad kicks and some low-lying grit on the baize will unsettle him more than they will me . |
| 10 | If I came out of the changing-room with a bin-liner round my waist and a lampshade on my head he 'd say that they suited me . |
| 11 | But I have more friends who are willing to admit publicly that they know me ! |
| 12 | They were a decent lot and I was glad that they accepted me despite my anomalous position . |
| 13 | These passions are disinterested , in the sense that they excite me to help or harm you as in yourself attractive or repulsive to me , irrespective of further advantage to myself ; they treat you not as means but as end , if only as a negative end . |
| 14 | ‘ The only problem is that they taught me to swear like a trooper . ’ |
| 15 | So I usually leave a er sheet of paper on the table and if you 're , if you 're interested in getting a free brochure what I shall do at the end of the course is to send this off er together with one of the cards that they let me have and er in due time you 'll get a free Saga magazine . |
| 16 | It 's important that they keep me abreast of what 's happening , paper C. |
| 17 | Yes Chairman , of the hundred and sixty thousand plus cost , erm , part of the contribution by the major servicing committee , and I understand that they advised me the balance has been made from local contributions , and charitable sources . |
| 18 | Er , you know , well of course they were young girls and er , you see and there 's , there was nothing we could do , you see , and , and er , anyway the doctor , as soon as the doctor did come , it was because th the young staff er they had to , they took her away to the mortuary , you see and erm then I , I had to carry on with her work and , and do the best I could and mine as well , you see , but of course er the Manager he appointed another Assistant Manager to go and collect the money which I used to do got it in because I took her times of duty as well and er , you see , and then after that er after several weeks I suppose it was , I do n't know how many because I forget how many , that they appointed me as Manageress and I was in that position for twelve years , you see and |
| 19 | Did you know that they exiled me — me ! |
| 20 | It 's just that they reminded me so much of the poor child my husband killed . |
| 21 | The upshot of it all was that they wanted me to ask Derek would he come in for a sperm count . |
| 22 | ‘ Oddly enough the selectors only told me shortly before the match that they wanted me to play left centre so that ‘ Obbo ’ could get some of the ball , ’ Cranmer reminisced . |
| 23 | Then word came that they wanted me to do a test ! |
| 24 | included in mine , so it meant that they paid me for the summer holidays cos I did n't officially really |
| 25 | I can remember him saying , as we walked down the second fairway , ‘ Willie , if I can win these people ( the gallery ? over from Jack [ Nicklaus ] so that they want me to win , I 'll win for them . ’ |
| 26 | Is he aware that they posed me the question , ’ Is anybody in the Government prepared to stand up and fight to defend the coal industry ? ’ |
| 27 | Who needs to speak to me so urgently that they lie me down on myriads of pebbles by a sun-scorched sea in the southern part of England ? |
| 28 | Though I did n't know that then , so I rang your hotel — and , while insisting that they contact me , without letting you know , the moment you walked in … ’ |
| 29 | The fact that they reserved me a front row seat in the Big Top of their felicity did assist in throttling back the glooms . |
| 30 | I 'm left with the fact that they knock me up in the middle of the night , turn my place over , give me a hard time , then just forget about it all . |