Example sentences of "[pron] and [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was his and it seemed a palace . |
| 2 | Here he 's going to kill himself and he flicks a cigarette out of the window . ’ |
| 3 | Something which is important to say is that the first time you have a contact with somebody and you do a piece , you 're , you 're meeting for the first time , it 's slightly awkward and you 're getting to know each other slightly , the second time you do it easier , it 's easier , and if you establish relationships with the local press , local radio and so forth , it gets easier and easier all the time , because by the time you get to know people , it 's not sort of ‘ Can I speak to somebody who does a programme about the morning whatever it is ? |
| 4 | It hovered close to me and I felt a coldness on my cheek . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ It was very emotional for me and I had a tear in my eye as I came across the line . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ It was very emotional for me and I had a tear in my eye as I came across the line . |
| 7 | The footman came and dismantled it for me and I brought a chair to the French windows , quite casually , and there was natural light coming in . |
| 8 | ‘ On my last legs , ’ Seth wrote later , ‘ I hied down to New Orleans to drink myself quietly to death , and nearly did , but something awoke in me and I wrote a book instead . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It worries me and I spend a lot of time thinking about it what we should be doing , what we can do . |
| 10 | Whereas me and you got a team together , you said forty two playing league and four playing here and four playing a league game . |
| 11 | ‘ He is taller than me and he has a sense of humour but I keep that side of my life very private , ’ she said . |
| 12 | The Church made the law on marriage — who might marry and with whom and what constituted a marriage . |
| 13 | Fortunately , the British can now buy them and they form a basis for this kind of pizza . |
| 14 | Just because there were two of them and they had a knife at my ear , they thought I was their prisoner . |
| 15 | Jazz switched the television off and came outside with them and they kicked a tin-can round the field a bit and then sat on some dumped oil-drums and watched the lights come on along the front and smoked a cigarette and reflected on their fate . |
| 16 | check it out for them and they want a quote , say it takes two blokes an hour each |
| 17 | Valeri said he had found a tent and various items on the ridge , which they were attempting , so I made a list of them and he drew a sketch map of the location where the tent had been found . |
| 18 | Student asks thirty people , how long it had taken them And you draw a frequency table , which you 've just been doing there . |
| 19 | I used to go and cut their barley to them and I bought a thing for drying the barley too . |
| 20 | People do tend , I think rather superficially , to concentrate on figures and relationships between the figures , whereas what really matters is the concept behind them and I think a financier could be somebody who is awfully bad at arithmetic , but does understand the concepts . |
| 21 | I remember the day my baby sister was born , but the pirate incident is earlier , for from the time Ann was born , she and I shared a room , and Robert had his own . |
| 22 | ‘ How 's about you and me having a sit in my car ? ’ |
| 23 | Not what you and I call a reason . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It 's simply that you and I share a father . ’ |
| 25 | And also I think it 's high time you and I watched a bit more television . ’ |
| 26 | It 's time you and he had a chat . ’ |
| 27 | Right , well , well , actually yes , what , what you look at , is , is what 's important to you and you put a cash value on it , and it might be the mortgage , it might be education , it might be giving yourself a couple of years ' salary and paying debts or whatever , er , and the security of knowing that O K , if I die , I 'm not leaving a problem for my family , but at the same time if I 'm in a situation where I get a serious illness and I ca n't bring in an income , I 'm securing my , my , my future in that respect . |
| 28 | The Late Pleistocene humans in the Philippines seem to have lived in the savannas , so that the pre-historic Negritos probably did not move into the forest until they had seasonal access to cultivated starchy food unavailable in the forest itself and they evolved a lifestyle to collect forest produce for trade . |
| 29 | Choke up at The Price Of Fame : ‘ I give ‘ em everything and they stick a knife in my back . ’ |
| 30 | You know but were all the you know the short ones and everything and he had a blitz on them . |