Example sentences of "as they [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to see you again just as soon as they let me out of this hospital . |
| 2 | I have been dead for a long time and by day I circle the huge air above the hills and by night I sleep in the quiet rock , as quiet as the rock , and the little worms mean consolation as they eat me . |
| 3 | I swallowed this , and even as they walked me down the garden path and into the field where the half-built aviary was situated , I still had no idea what was going on . |
| 4 | Anyway , as soon as they saw me they scampered over and said , ‘ We know you , you 're that Derrick May are n't you ? ' |
| 5 | It 's bad enough at first but then it gets worse even as they keep me because they found more , they found two more and that was while I was here for Christ 's sake while they held me while things were still happening more stuff came in while they were questioning me and they looked at me with disbelief horror disgust and I was going What ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ As long as they get me past the post . ’ |
| 8 | I read them and cried as they took me back through time , down the long bloody passageways of the last seventy-five years . |
| 9 | I am being taken to the realms of the People , who hate nature as much as they hate me , who am unnatural . |
| 10 | But just so long as they take me somewhere where there 's the right kind of electricity … |
| 11 | I 'd play for them or write out any song they wanted to learn as long as they gave me ten or fifteen minutes worth of scales and exercises first . ’ |
| 12 | I say ‘ solitary c. ’ because they gave me a little ward of my own , but it was anything but uncomfortable , as they gave me a treatment which ‘ private ward ’ patients in Britain might envy , except that the food of course was Chinese , and they insisted on giving me 5 meals a day , so that I had some trouble getting my appetite back to normal . |
| 13 | These letters are the letters of a wonderful poet and that truth shines steady through the very shining and alternating feelings with which I look at them in so far as they concern me , that is in so far as they are mine . |
| 14 | It 's covering myself , really , asking people to take me as they find me . |
| 15 | And these two women , as they see me , suffering , silent , naked , this guy who 's given them everything and who 's the greatest fuck they ever had in their goddam lives — these women , these simple , nude women , they forget their rivalry and weep in each other 's arms . |
| 16 | ‘ People were hugging and kissing each other as my car powered its way to the finish as they joined me in an early celebration . |
| 17 | " I do n't care chat becomes of me , So long as they sing me that sheet melody , Yip-I-Addy , I-Ay , I-Ay , Yip-I Addy , I-Ay , I-Ay . " |
| 18 | I asked , as they marched me towards the car . |
| 19 | Even so , the cherry berets threw me to the ground , kicking me in the ribs as they frisked me for weapons . |
| 20 | I needed them as much as they needed me and I happily took the rough with the smooth . |
| 21 | ‘ You must come back for our Christmas party , ’ they said in unison as they waved me off . |
| 22 | For myself , I wish to say to men that as long as they associate me with an idea of ‘ woman ’ drawn from the past , or suppose that a model for gender relations is to be found in that past , they have failed to see me for the person who I am , or to envisage what equality might mean . |