Example sentences of "they [vb past] me the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them told me the changes they 've put now are so dramatic , there might as well have been a change of government . |
| 2 | And they sold me The Last Boy Scout . |
| 3 | Most of the people I went with took mountain bikes and they envied me the Pioneer as I sped along with far less effort that they had to use . |
| 4 | Where I used to live , when they evacuated me the first time . ’ |
| 5 | Is he aware that they posed me the question , ’ Is anybody in the Government prepared to stand up and fight to defend the coal industry ? ’ |
| 6 | They told me the legal position and asked how hard I was prepared to fight . |
| 7 | I du n no if they told me the way — I can t remember , but I think it 's this way . |
| 8 | While I gratefully sipped my pint , they told me the story . |
| 9 | When I came out , they told me the court dates of when he was going to be adopted . |
| 10 | ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day . |
| 11 | ‘ They told me the regulators would n't allow it and that Glasgow housewives would n't be able to do it ’ , he recalls with a smile . |
| 12 | When she decided , with the rest of the children , to go to Waco Monday and they told me the Sunday . |
| 13 | ‘ When they told me the body had been mutilated and burnt I did n't think it was Brian . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Yes Chairman , of the hundred and sixty thousand plus cost , erm , part of the contribution by the major servicing committee , and I understand that they advised me the balance has been made from local contributions , and charitable sources . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ At the station they showed me the machine with an old mouthpiece and said I would have to blow into that . |
| 18 | When I arrived they showed me the letter they had received from the Chief Education Officer that morning which explained the proposed Statementing procedure : |
| 19 | when they showed me the ropes : |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | then they taught me the copper |
| 22 | They called me the Man-Mountain . |
| 23 | and this year they brought me the wireless and cassette |
| 24 | They brought me the news back from Worcester . |
| 25 | When they saw me the laughter stopped . |
| 26 | They voted me the biggest flirt and they actually printed that under my picture in the school yearbook . |
| 27 | ‘ They gave me the address of a doctor . ’ |
| 28 | They gave me the vitally important gift of being able to ‘ feel ’ an audience , a precious sixth sense that can not be taught . |
| 29 | ‘ They knew I had insurance because I took it out with the TSB when they gave me the loan . ’ |
| 30 | I 'd been to see my great-aunt 's solicitors in Glasgow and they gave me the keys . |