Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] me [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they pay , they pay , they are paying me a little bit , I think it ought to go up in price a bit though myself |
| 2 | They 're getting me a hose for Christmas . |
| 3 | ‘ They 're giving me a week . |
| 4 | They 're giving me a birthday party today . |
| 5 | The farming bills do n't amount to much as the ones who do call me in always think they 're doing me a favour and consequently should n't be charged much . |
| 6 | ‘ They 're still very patronising to me , keep hinting that they 're doing me a favour . ’ |
| 7 | Whether that was down to the powers that be I do n't know ; perhaps they were teaching me a lesson for daring to complain about where I was put . |
| 8 | I never did think they were primitive and they always told the truth ( except when they were teaching me the language ) and were a damn sight more trustworthy than some of the white men we had on the job . |