Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | They called the film they made about me Too Long a Winter , and I have to declare immediately that I do not care for winter at all , for neither mind nor body agrees with it . |
| 2 | I just did what they asked of me . ’ |
| 3 | They interfered with me there . |
| 4 | I do n't know whether , people thought that erm if they interfered with me I would n't er I would n't play or what it was but then , anyway erm when the war ended , as I say I got a bit erm worried and erm I then got in touch with er Mr who was then er , then taken over from Sir Cecil Clerk of the Council or Chief Executive and erm , he suggested that erm I might take a course for the erm Home Workers Diploma For The Blind which erm was , well it was a sort of specialized er social worker really . |
| 5 | I remember little of my stay in the intensive care unit , but I am told they cared for me every second of the night and day . |
| 6 | He was so clever , so successful , but I never realized they cared about me , too . ’ |
| 7 | They beamed on me fondly . |
| 8 | They shouted at me ’ Get off the platform — we do n't want to know about your fucking problems ’ . |
| 9 | As they moved towards me , I moved away , but at last I came to a part of the field where rain had knocked down the corn . |
| 10 | They formated on me and I led the formation back to the island . |
| 11 | They charged at me . |
| 12 | Toby had n't had time to try the ‘ exclusive ’ story on the dirty mac brigade and they clustered about me and shouted the usual obvious questions . |
| 13 | They behaved towards me as they would to anyone else and I found it a very valuable exposure . |
| 14 | They were both Waafs on the staff at Group , and when I tentatively expressed an interest in spiritualism , they fastened onto me like leeches . |
| 15 | They seemed to me very distant , almost suspicious . |
| 16 | As honest and honourable Russian writers , they seemed to me to be emblematic in some way . |
| 17 | Halcyon days they seemed to me now , for Leslie was within reach , and was not in action . |
| 18 | I did n't know any boys , except those I met through my sisters , and they seemed to me to be vain , impolite and almost totally inarticulate . |
| 19 | they seemed to me to be heavy with symbolism but I could n't see anything . |
| 20 | ‘ First they came for the Jews , then they came for the communists , then they came for the trade unionists , then they came for me ’ , he repeats over a silky , mesmeric House groove , gradually adding a line each time , until he gets to ‘ and there was no-one left to speak up for me ’ . |
| 21 | Then they came for me and then there was nobody to bother and that was the end of it . |
| 22 | They came to me because they were unhappy with their agent and wanted to change to me . |
| 23 | ‘ When they came to me in the summer , some of the shirts they offered were horrible . |
| 24 | Whenever the papers wanted a quote they came to me , when the local radio wanted an interview I was the spokesperson . |
| 25 | I 've always fixed my hair the way that people had it before they came to me to have it styled and fixed . |
| 26 | I had been singing it at Bayreuth so they came to me . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I used to rehearse what I 'd say to my students if they came to me with a problem like this , ’ said William , ‘ but no one ever did . |
| 28 | Kadhafi in a speech on Libyan television on Aug. 31 said that " the UN is like an oven where the demands are cooked ; they came to me and they said : " Eat " " . |
| 29 | ‘ They came after me with their spears , too ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Philippe , I 'm sure they came after me . |