Example sentences of "they have [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | See they 've offered me more money to stay at this one cos I 've got it running quite well |
| 2 | I thought they 'd hidden me away in a cupboard . |
| 3 | I thought they 'd hung me up by my arms , ’ he began , and then he stopped short , remembering that the Punishment Squad could not do that to a crippled man with one arm . |
| 4 | They put in my real balance which was something like £7.50 — but they 'd given me their stamp . |
| 5 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Only one , ’ said Ken , ‘ and that was n't because I forgot it : it was because they 'd given me bad directions . ’ |
| 7 | So I went in and told them and they 'd given me wrong sack . |
| 8 | Guess what they 'd seen me in ? |
| 9 | In the beginning Marian took on a lot of criminal work and admits wryly that the ‘ old lags just thought they 'd led me have a try ’ . |
| 10 | Yes , and erm , I 'm very sorry about it , er , because if they 'd breathalysed me I would have failed as well . |
| 11 | But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated . |
| 12 | And a Liverpool painter 's son , who after his father died ‘ was brought up with me grandmother ’ , calling her ‘ mother ’ , chose not to return to his real mother when she remarried and could offer him a home again : ‘ They 'd brought me up , and it would n't be fair for them to take me after from rearing me . ’ |
| 13 | If I was too embarrassed , too full of shame to go and see them , it was n't just my fault ; it was theirs too , because of the way they 'd brought me up ( God , I thought I 'd stopped using that excuse when I left Lochgair Primary School ) . |
| 14 | My parents were fond of travel , and they 'd brought me on a trip , long before people had even heard of package holidays . |
| 15 | The paramedics turned up within ten minutes and as they turned up I passed out , so they applied the defibrillator to my chest and the next thing I knew from one minute to sitting talking to them I knew I was on the ground and they 'd brought me round . |
| 16 | They 'd expected me to bring things belonging to my mother that they could share out , but there was hardly anything . |
| 17 | Yeah once I 'd got there , they 'd offered me it er and I went home and thought about it actually thought about having to work for them , you know , not just |
| 18 | ‘ D' you remember , ’ Cal said , ‘ when I was new at school when you were too , three years ago , they 'd taken me away from St Catherine 's and I never told you why . |
| 19 | They 'ud 've strung me up if they 'd taken me . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ If only they 'd taken me ! |
| 21 | I 'd met Kristin and Sabine that morning and they 'd told me to come over and described where they were now living . |
| 22 | ‘ They 'd told me that as I was caught in civilian clothes I was going to be treated as a spy , and every time I heard those shots I thought ‘ My turn tomorrow ’ . ' |
| 23 | I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this . |
| 24 | Oh , they 'd told me , but until I saw you I could n't believe it . |
| 25 | They were afraid to ta but if they 'd had that if they 'd told me to provide an extra coach for the Manchester as I was suggesting , Dougie would have come out and taken strips off them for You see . |
| 26 | When I went into prison I had mixed feelings for people outside — I hated them , I felt they had rejected me , they 'd left me alone to just get on with it . |
| 27 | And I remembered too the guns they 'd shown me , with the barrels roughly brazed to patch holes that had been blasted-out by home-made bullets too misshapen to find a smooth passage through when the gun was fired . |
| 28 | ‘ I really thought they 'd forgotten me , lost my records or something . |
| 29 | The trouble was , although they 'd got me to do it — maybe because they knew it would save them money , or maybe because you ca n't get that kind of work done by your usual process shop — I did n't know how to do colour separations . |
| 30 | They 'd got me worried . |