Example sentences of "they [verb] me [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end I got them to give me the first aid outfit and fixed myself up . |
| 2 | They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’ |
| 3 | They asked me a few questions and withdrew to grunt amongst themselves , then came back and welcomed me as one of them . |
| 4 | And they sold me The Last Boy Scout . |
| 5 | Where I used to live , when they evacuated me the first time . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They told me the legal position and asked how hard I was prepared to fight . |
| 8 | ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day . |
| 9 | Well I was supposed to be but erm every single time they arrange it and they either tell me the wrong da well they told me the wrong day last week cos , they told me Tuesd they told me it was Thursday when it , when it was actually Tuesday when I was getting pissed at Scott 's house so erm it was too late by then . |
| 10 | Will they give me the cold shoulder ? |
| 11 | However , they caused me no ill and I staggered back to the Golden Turk and the tender care of the slattern , a bowl of rich broth and countless frothing tankards of ale . |
| 12 | I went to Newark and got a job at , a ball bearing factory , and er they paid me the handsome wage of er two pounds sixteen for forty seven hours . |
| 13 | They showed me a new way of life . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The fact that they reserved me a front row seat in the Big Top of their felicity did assist in throttling back the glooms . |
| 16 | Although they give me a good start for next issue . |
| 17 | ‘ Now it 's great to be going back there in a successful side — I only hope they give me a good reception . ’ |
| 18 | Anyway , they give me a good talkin' to an' one o' the coppers kept givin' me an old-fashioned look . |
| 19 | Mm , mm , I do n't know , I think one of me tablets , me , for me heart , they give me a different tablet like , it was a same like Heinz Beans or Cross and Blackwell Beans |
| 20 | But do n't call the law unless they give me the black spot , or if you see the seaman with one leg — he 's worse than any of them . ’ |
| 21 | You know they , they give me the military police at the school I tell you , who are you , well I 'm Nick , are you sure , yeah |
| 22 | They handed me a cardboard plate on which was an apple , a slice of cake , and some homemade toffee . |
| 23 | Great , they last me a long time |
| 24 | Because we have to have another door so they giving me a third off . |
| 25 | And erm they offered me a green ginger you see |
| 26 | With the usual peasant hospitality they offered me a little saucer of quince jam and a thimbleful of raki as well as the glass of cistern water I requested . |
| 27 | They voted me the biggest flirt and they actually printed that under my picture in the school yearbook . |
| 28 | ‘ They gave me no specific reason why they stopped me and I am just worried they could stop any innocent people , ’ he said . |
| 29 | If they gave me a first , I would go to Cambridge . |
| 30 | They gave me a first . |