Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] me [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But do n't waste it on me in any case : I would n't believe Six even if they told me they were lying . |
| 2 | I says if they lent me it erm well they might want us to watch it now and lend it to someone else . |
| 3 | He looked at my work and said I had talent , but that I needed " earnest practice in drawing " , to which I wholly agree : He also said he would be glad to take me as his " chela " but that my name and work must go before the council of professors of the Academy , which meets next Thursday , 17th inst. and that if they accepted me I could start work on the following Monday , 21st inst . |
| 4 | ‘ But you can help me , Katie ; I 'd like you to spread the word around and tell people what my business is , and that if they need me I 'll be able to help and charge only a little interest . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Because they tell me you 're a great pilot who can fly anything . ’ |
| 6 | But there were five of them there one day in the porch and when they saw me they gathered up their bottles and began to go , except one . |
| 7 | But when they took me they also took my bicycle , and I ca n't live without it . |
| 8 | But the children are quite sincere when they tell me we are the closest family they know . |
| 9 | It 's one of the delightful , I 've been recruiting for a long time and it 's it 's one of those erm delightful things to be able to say to people on the phone when they tell me they 're fifty or fifty four to say that 's not a problem . |
| 10 | When they , when they weighed me I thought I had to have my leg off , I went to the |
| 11 | When they see me they become strangely still and respectful . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , I have sought you , ’ he said , nodding , half to himself , ‘ for they tell me you are quite the best there is . ’ |
| 13 | Anyway , as soon as they saw me they scampered over and said , ‘ We know you , you 're that Derrick May are n't you ? ' |
| 14 | No doubt if I had responded to Hilda and Annie and the rest as they told me I should respond , as they all told me my true nature , my deeper nature was crying out to respond , I would be surrounded today by love and wives and children and the rest . |