Example sentences of "and they [verb] me [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I had to go to the , like the job centre and they offered me this , which I did n't really fancy at the time . |
| 2 | ‘ — and I was placed between Harry Burrows and Piers Langley and they told me all about hunting round here and really it was so interesting that I hardly noticed what we ate , some sort of fish and pheasant I think and , oh yes , there was an ice but by that stage , you know , I did n't have the smallest corner to put in so much as a mouthful — ’ |
| 3 | I mean in terms of population I think I somebody did er Strathclyde regional council used to be a client of mine when I was with Three M er well you know a client of my rep up here but er and they told me some time that I think a huge percentage of the whole of Scotland 's population |
| 4 | we 're still involved , and they tell me that life on a fire station is still very pleasant so I 'm sure it must be . |
| 5 | On Jerba I had made it clear that I was not in the market for anything and they left me alone . |
| 6 | They go here , they go here and they make me dizzy . |
| 7 | If I see things and they make me mad , I have to talk about it . ’ |
| 8 | eighty pound if it 's not one thing you know it 's fortnight ago from Co-Op it 's forty one P a packet , went last week it was forty six P a packet , so Richard and Angela went the other day for nan and they got me some at same time , she leant me the money , yeah , cos I was absolutely broke , gone back down again to forty one |
| 9 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 10 | And they paid me sixteen and six an hour for the tractor and a mower and myself . |
| 11 | And they give me all the equipment I need . |
| 12 | I paid hundred and twenty quid on top of this for electric , and they billed me seventy odd ! |
| 13 | And Ford 's put up a lot of the money and so they wanted their cut from the publicity , and they gave me another award , and their manager in Brighton came to present it . |
| 14 | And they says , Well a person who lived in your flat before you had a telly , you know and they gave me some excuse , you know that the the the person who lived in here before me had ripped them off and they says , How do we know that you 're not that person , you know things like that . |
| 15 | ‘ And they call me cynical ! ’ he laughs . |
| 16 | Cos I nearly died I got on bus other day and they charged me eighty five pence I looked at me clock and it were twenty past nine . |
| 17 | I read them , furtively , like boys do pornography , and they showed me another world . |
| 18 | And they fit me perfect . |