Example sentences of "they [vb base] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when they lay me in my wedding dress on that table , I 'll have my revenge on him ! ’ |
| 2 | Er and she said I 'll ring you ag I said oh dear someone now coming to the door , she said , never mind I 'll ring you on Saturday , so I said alright and er and she lives at Wyndham , Norfolk , my husband 's niece and erm , you see , and then there 's the other one and she said , auntie you 're always so cheerful , I said , well I try to be cheerful because like everybody else I get a little depressed sometimes because , you see , I have no sisters and brothers , I have three elderly cousins who live away and who I , who I see , one was here a fortnight ago er er er my cousin and his wife er , you see , it will be on a Wednesday , a fortnight today , no Thursday , yes , you see , a fortnight ago and they said , we 'll come again an we 've always bought you a bunch of daffodils so we shall come again when the daffodils are and er and they bring me over bits and pieces because er she was a cook and they bring me something nice to eat |
| 3 | They trust me with bunches of keys and let me phone my sister . |
| 4 | They trust me for my word and my attitude . ’ |
| 5 | In their generosity , or relief of getting out of the kitchen , they ply me with bag loads of organic vegetables . |
| 6 | That 's what they want me to be — some crummy clerk with painted fingernails number-crunching on a computer all day . |
| 7 | What the sponsor wants we try to see he gets , and that 's why a great deal of my time is spent being seen where they want me to be seen , like tonight 's cocktail party . |
| 8 | They want me to . |
| 9 | I 'm just telling you , what they want me for — ’ |
| 10 | Or am I simply what they expect me to be ? |
| 11 | And they expect me to co be coming in from here , |
| 12 | ‘ But the board know when contracts are up and now they expect me to just sign for a year . |
| 13 | They criticise me for getting a new curtain or taking a holiday . |
| 14 | If they send me to Rampton , what does that make me ? ’ ’ |
| 15 | For myself , I wish to say to men that as long as they associate me with an idea of ‘ woman ’ drawn from the past , or suppose that a model for gender relations is to be found in that past , they have failed to see me for the person who I am , or to envisage what equality might mean . |
| 16 | Just in case they hold me to a four week |
| 17 | And all they catch me with is a few DFs . |
| 18 | They let me to — I talked myself out of it . |
| 19 | ‘ They let me on the train . ’ |
| 20 | family and they put me onto valium , but having worked in psychiatric I knew the results of valium , so I I gradually broke them down and got off them but for six full months I could n't sleep |
| 21 | They took me along and they put me into this dormitory . |
| 22 | After that , they put me into Martinho 's care . |
| 23 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 24 | So they put me to millinery . |
| 25 | He called a doctor and they put me to bed . |
| 26 | It was the way they put me on the right track that made me wonder — guiding angels in the Bible have a habit of appearing as two young men . |
| 27 | As it turned out , I was a dreadful croupier and after a few weeks they put me on coats and hats . |
| 28 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 29 | Er , I actually had two stillborn babies , one one year after each other and they put me on Valium and it did n't do me any good at all ! |
| 30 | Anyway , one day I was messing about playing hide and seek , hiding from the officers , and they put me on report . |