Example sentences of "they [vb past] me [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they got me this lovely velvet one . |
| 2 | There was a pile of really filthy-looking blankets on the bed , they got me some sheets and a towel , and I managed to get an extra pillow because of my asthma . |
| 3 | eighty pound if it 's not one thing you know it 's fortnight ago from Co-Op it 's forty one P a packet , went last week it was forty six P a packet , so Richard and Angela went the other day for nan and they got me some at same time , she leant me the money , yeah , cos I was absolutely broke , gone back down again to forty one |
| 4 | I definitely could n't afford that , so I took it back to the Oxford Used Car Centre and erm what happened , the mechanical breakdown service — now this is where I thought they were very good — they reimbursed me all the money that I 'd paid out on those repairs plus they did the repairs and put me a new gearbox in and the car 's running perfectly . |
| 5 | They told me that sexual examination is a routine part of the entry certificate procedure at British Diplomatic missions in the Indian subcontinent . |
| 6 | They told me that , if Pendero won at Ascot , you were finished as a jockey . |
| 7 | It 's not that bad , it 's just that red and green are fairly important colours to people who try to wave down planes and things like that , so they told me that being a pilot was definitely out . |
| 8 | ‘ — and I was placed between Harry Burrows and Piers Langley and they told me all about hunting round here and really it was so interesting that I hardly noticed what we ate , some sort of fish and pheasant I think and , oh yes , there was an ice but by that stage , you know , I did n't have the smallest corner to put in so much as a mouthful — ’ |
| 9 | What they told me this morning ? ’ |
| 10 | I mean in terms of population I think I somebody did er Strathclyde regional council used to be a client of mine when I was with Three M er well you know a client of my rep up here but er and they told me some time that I think a huge percentage of the whole of Scotland 's population |
| 11 | ‘ I think it was quite a victory , looking at ‘ The Aztecs ’ , that they allowed me some leeway there : having me chosen as the wife of the Warrior , which more or less said , look she 's marriageable now . |
| 12 | They showed me some of their stories , but there were hundreds that they kept secret . |
| 13 | I did n't really believe the , so they showed me these pictures of themselves with Mr Brando , on his Tahitian island , their arms round him . |
| 14 | I read them , furtively , like boys do pornography , and they showed me another world . |
| 15 | ‘ Some friends who were with me on holiday in Romania talked about the idea and when they contacted me this year saying they were going to do the ride I told them I was more than willing to join them , ’ said Karen , who teaches at Applegarth Primary School , Northallerton . |
| 16 | yeah , but some of the letters have come , in fact they sent me that catalogue you know |
| 17 | They sent me another out and I thought oh right , but if I find it I 've to let them know , either give them it back or |
| 18 | And at the moment we 're on the ninth of this month , I received a copy today they s they sent me some material , erm they 've actually been given photographs by people like er Ansell Adams , Fay Goodwin , er David er Bailey . |
| 19 | So what have we got , have they sent me some new textbooks ? |
| 20 | They sent me this picture . ’ |
| 21 | I would n't stay here if they offered me half of the Palace . |
| 22 | So I had to go to the , like the job centre and they offered me this , which I did n't really fancy at the time . |
| 23 | Oh , they were very kind , they bought me all the right things , nice toys , I agree , but always there was this feeling , well , obligation , they gave me things but something was always expected in return . |
| 24 | Anyway , they bought me this you know and er and , she said you 'll be able to go on your trips . |
| 25 | About two years since they gave me that . |
| 26 | They gave me that . |
| 27 | They gave me all them extra ones for Baby 's nappies what I never used . ’ |
| 28 | And they says , Well a person who lived in your flat before you had a telly , you know and they gave me some excuse , you know that the the the person who lived in here before me had ripped them off and they says , How do we know that you 're not that person , you know things like that . |
| 29 | They gave me another flat somebody else had turned down . |
| 30 | And Ford 's put up a lot of the money and so they wanted their cut from the publicity , and they gave me another award , and their manager in Brighton came to present it . |