Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] me the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? ’ |
| 3 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 4 | ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day . |
| 5 | When she decided , with the rest of the children , to go to Waco Monday and they told me the Sunday . |
| 6 | Most of the people I went with took mountain bikes and they envied me the Pioneer as I sped along with far less effort that they had to use . |
| 7 | And they sold me The Last Boy Scout . |
| 8 | I 'd been to see my great-aunt 's solicitors in Glasgow and they gave me the keys . |
| 9 | Not only was Pumblechook 's elbow in my eye , but I was n't allowed to speak , and they gave me the worst pieces of meat . |
| 10 | ‘ And they gave me the job . ’ |
| 11 | I du n no if they told me the way — I can t remember , but I think it 's this way . |
| 12 | ‘ When they told me the body had been mutilated and burnt I did n't think it was Brian . |
| 13 | When they saw me the laughter stopped . |
| 14 | Where I used to live , when they evacuated me the first time . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ They knew I had insurance because I took it out with the TSB when they gave me the loan . ’ |
| 16 | when they showed me the ropes : |