Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cross-examined by John Griffith Williams QC , about why he did not stop for the children , he said that he was concerned not to hit them and instinctively moved away into the fast lane . |
| 2 | Thomas Buchanan had to hit them and push them to the top of the rock . |
| 3 | For non-metals if you try to hit them and beat them into sheets or if you try to stretch them you get ? |
| 4 | ‘ Look there , they are startling and snorting now — you have frightened them and they will not eat before the journey . |
| 5 | Ten minutes later , she miaowed if I approached her and it took her several hours to forgive me and to stop treating me like a walking cat repellent . |
| 6 | It is always hard to forgive people because forgiveness is often seen as a sign of weakness and we feel vulnerable enough after we have been hurt that we tend to build a wall between ourselves and those who have offended us , rather than to have the strength to forgive them and therefore become reconciled with them . |
| 7 | ‘ I know that PCs call them spooks , niggers and sooties , but deep down the majority of PCs are n't really against them , although there are some who really hate them and will go out of their way to get them . |
| 8 | I was wise in my childishness even then , at the tender age of five , when most children are forever telling their parents and friends that they hate them and they wish they were dead . |
| 9 | As I passed the bakery on my way home , Didier ran out of the shop to greet me and asked if he might accompany me . |
| 10 | They went over to greet them and gather details of the events on Sunday when they were said to have ringed the churchyard and exacted an oath against the Act from all the gentlemen in the congregation . |
| 11 | An officer on foot will often spend a whole shift without doing any police work , and without talking to anyone except to greet them and provide simple information … |
| 12 | Lizzie came from the back of the house to greet them and insisted on helping them carry in Sara 's boxes , packages and various belongings . |
| 13 | The visitor whose footsteps he had heard circling the house that last dawn they had ever spent there , if indeed he had heard them and not , in his state of panic , imagined them — that man or woman would have had no evidence for thinking anyone lived there but for the presence of Goblander on the drive . |
| 14 | ‘ All right , well I have told you that the facts are for you ; you have seen all the witnesses in the case , you have heard them and it is for you to assess their evidence and to decide which of them you believe , if any , which of them you disbelieve , if any . |
| 15 | Chris Fry must have heard them and he did his best by knocking in number four … |
| 16 | It occurred to me that he might well have heard me and decided not to answer . |
| 17 | Someone who really understands me and knows all my secrets . |
| 18 | I would recite some of the lines Grandad had taught me and sometimes sing songs like ‘ Who Will Buy My Pretty Flowers ’ . |
| 19 | dad 's going to light them and then you can blow them |
| 20 | There is then no longer them and us , for the mind has expanded to include them and us in one larger us . |
| 21 | He again went to see them and persuaded them to accompany him to a meeting at the police station with Mr McLean on August 24 . |
| 22 | I remember when the Andy Warhol lot came with Pork to The Roundhouse — we all went off specially to see them and meet them afterwards . ’ |
| 23 | Many of the stories were based on rumour , although others , like the ones about A&R men flying all over Europe to see them and high-ranking company staff jetting in from the States , were in fact true . |
| 24 | Dad and Eva would come back late , and I 'd get up to see them and hear , as they undressed , who 'd said what to whom about the latest play , or novel , or sex-scandal . |
| 25 | Many old people tell their elderly friends , in confidence , that although they worry sometimes about various things in the house that need attention and are beyond their capabilities , they do n't like to keep mentioning ‘ this and that ’ to their children when they visit , as they are only too delighted to see them and feel it is a bit hard to put them to work as soon as they arrive . |
| 26 | Er and in the South Midlands ' section , I think it is erm towards Coventry and Nuneaton , we have got erm I can even remember the name of the Guild it 's we 've got a lot of younger women in there and these are younger women that , it 's very , I 'm very pleased to see them and when you see them go to the rostrum you can , you know they really are , they seem as if they 're a revival of the old camp because we , we 've got to campaign you see and but you , you try , I mean I 'm getting beyond it really myself and yet you see , you try and whip up erm an aging movement it you , you want younger women you see . |
| 27 | And er you know , it 's lovely really to see them and to think they remember you still is n't it . |
| 28 | ( Press reports of Sept. 27 cited PLO officials as apparently confirming that on the previous day Ashrawi and Husseini had addressed the PNC , while Le Monde reported the " audition " of Ashrawi and Husseini by the PNC , " although nobody outside the members of the congress ' political committee was allowed to see them and therefore provide tangible proof of their presence " . |
| 29 | And there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called bromeliads and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and the world is full of things like that and now I know about them and I 'm never ever going to be able to see them and then you , ’ she gulped for breath , ‘ want me to come and live with you in a hole and wash your socks ! ’ |
| 30 | He 's aware of concern expressed by Parish Council and he 's going to see them and he will be very happy to come and er speak to us and answer any questions that we wish him to , so I advised him to contact the clerk to make arrangements . |