Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] me [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they 've assigned me a prolific blighter ( 'lific blighter ) — |
| 2 | ‘ They 've given me a roomette or some such , but I take this thing seriously . |
| 3 | They 've given me a theatre for a season . |
| 4 | They 've given me a major interrogation — I 'd told you about the Englishman — that 's what I should have been working on , not an idiot fire . |
| 5 | ‘ They 've given me a lot of furniture and other things that have been passed down through the generations . |
| 6 | Now she came away thinking I 've got this secondhand car and they 've given me a warranty . |
| 7 | It 's a compliment in itself that they 've given me the chance … ’ |
| 8 | They 've given me the main facts . |
| 9 | They 've given me an elbow crutch , and I can make the journey perfectly well now , if I thought the blasted train would stay on the lines , but there 's not much I could do once I got to Moila , is there , if I ca n't walk ? |
| 10 | Yeah they 've charged me a fiver 's fucking commission on that . |
| 11 | I add them up yesterday and said what 's it , what do I do , I 've not come to , now they 've sent me a temporary one . |
| 12 | When , when they 've been down , and they 've been back to school , they 've sent me a collections of drawings and nice little notes about it , and we 've come firm friends because first they look at me , on me as the pond woman , oh , they saw me on television getting my award , and erm they thought that was rather wonderful , and so we , we , we talk and now the , the first ones have quite grown up . |
| 13 | ‘ If I 've got my pants on in the second scene , I think they 've sent me the wrong script , ’ he says . |
| 14 | He 'd tried , the first year , rooming with the others , and had found they still came up to him all the time with their queries — ‘ They 've sent me the wrong costume for Gypsy Baron . |
| 15 | ‘ They 've told me the plan is that I should be opening , all things being equal , ’ he explained . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've spoken to the doctors at the hospital where he was treated , and they 've told me the whole long , miserable story . |
| 17 | and er , they 've found me a very , very nice residential home |
| 18 | ‘ They had sent me a tape of four songs ; one was called Down And Out and Squonk was another . |
| 19 | I got my membership booklet today ( at first I though they had sent me a season ticket by mistake ) . |
| 20 | ‘ I would have signed if they had offered me a few bob more . ’ |
| 21 | The three other members of the crew had just come back to the pump — we were doing " series pumping " — they had brought me a bottle of beer and I was taking a swig . |
| 22 | ‘ They have given me a special office in the Kremlin . |
| 23 | ‘ Then they have given me the slip again . |
| 24 | That they have cost me no more than my time makes such decisions much easier than if I had paid for them in gold . |
| 25 | ‘ They have called me a rotten apple , which , coming from them , I take as a compliment , ’ he says . |
| 26 | They have offered me a bodyguard . |
| 27 | ‘ They have offered me no protection and told me bluntly if I do n't like the job I can quit . ’ |