Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rolle is said to have fled to the nearby village of Pickering , where the squire John de Dalton was impressed by the strangely-clad hermit and agreed to support him and give him an anchorage to live in . |
| 2 | But Claire Fraser was out there and he had undertaken to find her and persuade her to come home . |
| 3 | You want to psycho-analyse me and send me home with all my little idiosyncrasies ironed out ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've come to find you and take you home . ’ |
| 5 | South Clwyd Coroner John Hughes said he had been impressed by the courage of the other crew members of the Warrior and medics who had pulled L Cpl Edwards from the vehicle , tried to resuscitate him and taken him to hospital . |
| 6 | That is why the politicians want to muzzle us and control what we write and you read . |
| 7 | He hates me , he wants to defile me and break me and destroy me . |
| 8 | ‘ You reckon an old building will jar with your luxury villas , so you want to buy it and demolish it ? ’ she asked , her voice frigid . |
| 9 | I do n't think er my only comment would be that having heard all the comments that have been made and listened to them and tried to dissect them and understand them , I do n't think they really alter er fundamentally our position . |
| 10 | Siobhan Coulson , 25 , of Davyhulme , Manchester , told the industrial tribunal how Doctor Ettore Flore tried to kiss her and hold her hand while on a business trip in The Gambia . |
| 11 | Both philology and Catholicism are here presented as ‘ languages ’ which Julia is unable to master because she wants to question them and change them rather than accept their inherent systematicity . |
| 12 | ‘ When he first told me , I tried to understand him and agreed he could dress up once a week at home . |
| 13 | Louise tried to soothe him and persuade him to drink the antiseptic draught which McNab had given her . |
| 14 | But if you love a writer , if you depend upon the drip-feed of his intelligence , if you want to pursue him and find him — despite edicts to the contrary — then it 's impossible to know too much . |
| 15 | And the adult stage of love wherein , ‘ I want to love you and cherish you because I can find my happiness in your happiness . |
| 16 | Under pressure from earnest appeals and strong personality of the dedicated Rivers , Jane nearly consents to marry him and share his missionary vocation in India , but is prevented by a telepathic appeal from Rochester . |
| 17 | John thought it might be useful to try to locate them and to warn them off . |
| 18 | The Book Trade needs to examine them and reach its own conclusions . |
| 19 | give you a form if she wants to take it and fill it in , right ? |
| 20 | Judge Richard May told Mills ’ to drive in that way when she tried to stop you and knock her down and run her over was callous behaviour beyong belief . ’ |
| 21 | But do n't blame yourself — you could n't have been expected to warn me and risk your own job . |
| 22 | Their company seemed to drain me and send me into a state of nervous exhaustion after even a short while . |
| 23 | It was strange for him at first but he soon came to enjoy it and did his best to improve the sporting standards and attitudes . |
| 24 | On the wall , the new star mounted a photograph of Gene Kelly , who came to see him and told him how proud he was of his performance , and painted on the door were the words ‘ Ginger Crawford ’ . |
| 25 | Someone from a hostel in London came to see me and said they would have me , so when I went to court in Sheffield the judge decided to put me on bail for four weeks , on condition that I stayed at the hostel and that I did n't drink , and also if I attended the Jules Thorn psychiatric unit , which is part of St Pancras Hospital , for a ten-day assessment . |
| 26 | I thought at the time she made nought of it , but back last summer , like you say , round August bank 'oliday , she came to see me and asked me to tell 'er everything I remembered 'bout the day of the explosion . |
| 27 | Other law chiefs came to see us and said they would help me to get a healthy country . |
| 28 | ‘ You will grow to know her and love her as I do , ’ their father took the woman 's hand and she smiled up at him . |
| 29 | But I soon felt calmer when he came to meet me and kissed me . |
| 30 | For my first as I put down in my erm blurb before , will be to meet you in small or large groups throughout the Euro constituency , and see what you can do to help me and to convince you erm that I will be a a good campaign leader , a good candidate . |