Example sentences of "they [verb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want them to see me crying . |
| 2 | We do n't as yet have any friends in the street , but we 're on Hello terms with a few neighbours , and frankly I would n't want them to see me putting all these flowers on a skip . |
| 3 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 4 | Just watching them made me feel ill . |
| 5 | Some of them became my friends and have remained so until the present day , but the sheer earthy mass of them made me realize how my few months of married life had changed me . |
| 6 | " I can not accept lectures , " he told his guests , " because the people who pay for them expect me to attend cocktail parties at which I am caught between someone wanting to know what I think of existentialism and someone asking me what I really meant by such-and-such a line " . |
| 7 | what I would like and I 'm sure it happens with the previous C P O er and I have been notified by telephone and I keep saying to them let me know , but I would like probably a memo from each C P O to say that there is a meeting on this particular night . |
| 8 | Anyway , one of them told me to stay and gave me a raffle ticket . |
| 9 | I use them to help me make a record , to make the band sound tighter than they would do otherwise . |
| 10 | This is another reason that I deliberately choose to move frequently in and out of role in drama with young children , and why I often use the strategy of asking them to help me create ( or construct ) the character that I play . |
| 11 | One of them slugged me to shut me up . ’ |
| 12 | That position received the strongest support from various members of the family , and it was only by strenuous and prolonged efforts that I have been able to persuade them to let me bring you this memorandum , which contains , as I 've said , all the relevant items in the letter . ’ |
| 13 | I 've gone to the nuns and begged them to let me have a child , but they say ‘ You are a prostitute . |
| 14 | It was nice of them to let me join in , they were very patient , but you could see they were itching for a good game and I 'm just hopeless . |
| 15 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 16 | They expected me to live on supplementary benefit so I was having to work the street , trying to get my house together . |
| 17 | So this morning the fat little chap in the long white coat who was sorting us out in the Dean 's Office said I 'd better come along here for a few days until they got me organized with another partner . |
| 18 | Michaela , 26 , said : ‘ They got me looking for wallabies and scorpions living wild in Britain . |
| 19 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |
| 20 | And then they got me to sign a form , they did n't say what it was for . |
| 21 | When Ivy went to see her she said oh Mrs Mr came to see me yesterday afternoon he brought another gentleman with him , a nice gentleman so I she said I think they were taking the census , they got me to sign a paper . |
| 22 | ‘ They got me going by guaranteeing my expenses until I started to win some prize money . |
| 23 | But they did , they got me to change , because I suppose all the words up there , and I 'm gon na find three most significant ones that and change , er , because while you influence somebody to turn from what they were doing , probably not too often , but it 's usually about something , when you think about the examples that you brought along , and you knew all about change . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , they made me go into the army . |
| 25 | They made me go through the whole thing three times , though I had hardly anything to tell them . |
| 26 | They made me move in to live with them as something they called their au-pair girl , mostly to exercise two new Great Dane puppies . |
| 27 | It was n't until they made me squat down and then taped my wrists to my ankles and stuck me in a large sack that I accepted that it was n't going to be a truck , but a car-boot move . |
| 28 | They made me think of beads and mirrors for the benighted natives . |
| 29 | Now they have aerial wires attached to the masts and they made me think they must intend to use her for some sort of electronic surveillance . |
| 30 | Those sessions nearly wrecked my hearing for life , but they made me laugh so much and took up so much of my off-duty that , as time went by , sometimes , just sometimes , I was able to laugh at my one-time passion for Bill . |