Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking her hand warmly in his and tucking it into his pocket , he ordered softly , ‘ Tell me about Elinor Browne with an ‘ E ’ . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Maggie , I 'm so awfully sorry to hear your news , ’ he said , taking her hands in his and squeezing them . |
| 3 | So , you see , all your fears are quite groundless , ’ he added earnestly , taking her hand in his and raising it warmly to his lips . |
| 4 | Are losing theirs and blaming it on you |
| 5 | He used to make my life very uncomfortable — abusing me and pushing me around — but I never had the guts to hit him because he was so big . |
| 6 | taking me and dropping me off |
| 7 | Mike was there every day , being nice to me and telling me not to worry about anything , he 'd found this flat and his mother was seeing to furnishing it and they were making arrangements for the wedding . |
| 8 | Nothing puts me off more than an artist coming to me and telling me that their work sells well . |
| 9 | Cos they keep telling cos I owe them so many hours they keep coming up to me and telling me that I owe them so many hours , you signed the contract saying you 've got whatever happens . |
| 10 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 11 | ‘ Jane , ’ ( bending towards me and kissing me ) , ‘ is that still your intention ? ’ |
| 12 | Yet again , looking at this urbane relaxed figure seated opposite me and comparing him with the romantic figures of Spender and others or with the scruffy Auden , I found it difficult to believe that he was a poet and not rather some worldly and successful company director . |
| 13 | I think about G.P. holding me and caressing me . |
| 14 | The soft , sweet sounds of the piano dropped round me , intoxicating me and compelling me to follow as I drifted towards the sound like a child of Hamelin . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're looking at me and thinking I 'm not the one to do it , ’ Pie prompted . |
| 16 | I thanked them for praying for me and seeing me now , hoped they thought their efforts worthwhile . |
| 17 | We set off in file moving along a narrow gauge railway in pitch darkness I was trying desperately to keep in contact with the Frenchman in front of me and cursing him when he stopped suddenly , causing me to bang my face on his rucksack . |
| 18 | I remember her coming to see me and begging me to help when he was arrested . |
| 19 | And I remember running into the ward where I had been treated , finding one of the nurses who had looked after me and giving her a big hug and her crying . |
| 20 | As Noel Blanc , who has a collection of 20 classic cars , explains : ‘ When I 'm driving down the street in my hot-rod , people are waving at me and giving me the thumbs up . |
| 21 | Why do you add to my miseries by haunting me and confronting me with my sins ? ’ |
| 22 | It ai n't fair , bein' kind to me and gettin' me obligated . |
| 23 | I am horrified to think that there could be 120,000 Kiwis of Scots descent who are doing the same as me and depriving you of decent circulation . |
| 24 | And then , I liked having nice little teas served to me for a change ; to have Wilson taking care of me and treating me like a lady — because there was a little something between us . |
| 25 | People are always niggling me and teasing me for doing too much work , going into too many details for even the smallest conference . |
| 26 | Bill Bill 's coming to me and saying he ca n't do that . |
| 27 | I asked you , in the name of Almighty God , to stop tormenting me and punishing me . |
| 28 | They were kicking me and hitting me with a big bar . |
| 29 | Three of them I recognize , but the whole gang has been grinning at me and clapping me on the back like I was their kid brother pulled out of a scrape . |
| 30 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |