Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | they got on my nerves them |
| 2 | They got past my crater and to the trenches we had attacked from , but they were driven back again almost at once . |
| 3 | And knitting needles that to my little fingers were like rolling pins you know and they were long and they got under my arms and I always used to have a tummy ache on knitting day cos I did n't want to go to school . |
| 4 | In such a situation in a foreign country I am never able to speak the language , so when they asked for my passport I just said ‘ Hotel ’ , because Spanish hotels always kept visitors ' passports , at any rate for the first night . |
| 5 | ‘ I resigned at the same time as they asked for my resignation . |
| 6 | ‘ Then ’ in 1960–3 , eighteen years ago ; and in the meantime , apart from summarising my reflections and discoveries before they passed from my memory in a slim volume entitled Medicine and politics , I have done what most ex-ministers do when they have a left most departments — given the subject a wide berth . |
| 7 | They proposed to my father that he make a list of all our properties in Palestine so that they could buy them . |
| 8 | It is important to recall exactly what these ordinary American lads did to the Vietnamese women , children , babies and old men they found in My Lai . |
| 9 | Then th they added to my district then again . |
| 10 | I felt about me ; and my hands came in contact with several fishes , some of which seemed to be still alive , for they squirmed in my fingers , and slipped back to my feet . |
| 11 | They went up to Scotland for your christening , 'eighty-three , it must have been no 'eighty-four , and when they came down south again , they came to my office and the wills were drawn up . ’ |
| 12 | No , no , they came to my house yeah , bring Oxford Dictionary out , no its gon na be five quid |
| 13 | I I could have sworn that they came off my skin . |
| 14 | They came into my hands in a rather distressing , but all too familiar , way . |
| 15 | But I knew they came from my convict , and I felt that having criminal friends made me more common than ever . |
| 16 | ‘ I was depressed , and when they arrived at my house and said , ‘ We 're very sorry to hear about your husband ’ , I believed they were genuine and let them in . |
| 17 | They skipped about my feet , a flock of lambs |
| 18 | ‘ At Risley when they heard about my sentencing , I was told there was a near riot . ’ |
| 19 | They relied on my good sense and I did n't let them down . |
| 20 | While reading cowboy stories in Moroneys I did n't feel they belonged to my life . |
| 21 | But they belonged to my brother . |
| 22 | Sometimes they broke into my classes at the university , carrying pictures of Franco and Primo de Rivera and chanting Falangist slogans or singing army songs , and shouting maricone ! maricone ! |
| 23 | ‘ My flat — they broke into my flat . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , they went with my grandmother and Hussa , and the others . ’ |
| 25 | Though I still argued at parties , defending Sir Stafford Cripps and the Labour Government , no one I met now seemed to be interested : they listened to my opinions because I was pretty , their eyes on the cleavage of my dress . |
| 26 | I must say I suddenly got pretty apprehensive about what my aunt and uncle would say as they listened to my stammering explanation . |
| 27 | I walked into assembly and everybody turned round and they did n't look at me , they looked at my stomach , everybody in that hall . |
| 28 | ‘ It must be what — what they did to my nerves . ’ |
| 29 | I have never forgiven the Government for what they did to my constituency in those two years . |
| 30 | Like they did to my house , that was disconnected . |