Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] and [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A year beforehand , Chudnovsky , who was a collector from Leningrad , and a very well-known one , had been to see me and asked if I could help him . |
| 3 | Well I , I was sitting in my house one night on the , I think it would be er nineteen fifty four , and a deputation came up from the ward committee to see me and wondered if I would join the council . |
| 4 | the City Council 's remains as efficient as possible , and erm most all the posts that we have at present , we believe are necessary , but we do continue to monitor them and see whether it is necessary to continue to employ all the people that we are employing at the moment . |
| 5 | In fact it immortalised them and ensured that all future anti-apartheid movements would vow their allegiance to the heroes of Rivonia . |
| 6 | ‘ There were a few kids who came up to meet me and said that they were n't going to vote until they heard what I had to say . ’ |
| 7 | I analysed them and found that a material had been used which is only obtainable in Iron Curtain countries . |
| 8 | The day before contracts were due to be exchanged , the vendor phoned me and asked whether we could keep on his current lodger who was a student and about to take his final exams . |
| 9 | When I first acquired a cube , Conway and Roger Penrose , from Oxford University , had already solved theirs and remarked that it took them some time to realise the power of conjugation . |
| 10 | Especially after Bishop Wishart visited him and announced that Seton was not guilty of any involvement in the King 's death . ’ |
| 11 | Fear for Dana and what would happen to her twin if Roman found her and Garry before she could warn her . |
| 12 | As a working detective , it would take six months of living with a mate to trust him and know that when it came to the Crown Court appearance he would know exactly what to say . |
| 13 | So when this came up it was obviously advantageous to have some new tracks for the anthology and so we approached him and asked if he would be interested . |
| 14 | When on one occasion a young Indian student approached him and asked if he was T. S. Eliot , he looked up at her in alarm , agreed that he was , and got off the bus . |
| 15 | At the morning coffee-break , one of his colleagues approached him and said that he practised acupuncture , and that he would relieve his shoulder tension for him if he wished . |
| 16 | Candy , who had a long history of violence , reported that , while he was in Reading on 22 June , an Italian named Mike , whom he knew slightly , approached him and suggested that they rob a shopkeeper in the town . |
| 17 | He approached her and asked if he could help . |
| 18 | Howard Kendall has fined him and said that it 's all over . |
| 19 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 20 | How very difficult it was to accept that I did need it and to show that I needed it . |
| 21 | The parent may either emulate this approach or completely refute it and feel that they never want to be like their parents . |
| 22 | It is extraordinary that even though the Government found an extra £40 million for sport in the last Budget , which is near enough double the expenditure on sport year on year , Opposition Members criticise us and suggest that we are not providing the necessary resources for sport . |
| 23 | The population reconstructions of Wrigley and Schofield ( 1981 ) support them and indicate that from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries fertility change was about twice as important as mortality in accounting for variations in population growth , and that declines in mortality were modest until the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 24 | A member of the Casa Alianza legal office visited them , photographed them and demanded that they be taken immediately to the Juvenile authorities in accordance with article 33 of the Juvenile Code . |
| 25 | The Gruncher will smell me and know that I am very close . |
| 26 | I 'm going to use what they can give me and try and make them look good . |
| 27 | She had been ‘ petrified ’ she would lose her boyfriend if she told him and feared if she told her employers , she would lose the job she loved . |
| 28 | Not even the fantasy that one of the Tsar 's descendents was preparing to come out and offer himself as a leader within Russia itself , defying the authorities to arrest him and prove that they had n't changed after all . |
| 29 | Or he 'll have to sell it and disappear before I can ( could ) get to the police . |
| 30 | You want to try and flick that , see if I can knock that little , one of those brass pigs , flick it and see if I knock it across the table , I 'll take my own finger off , the pig 'll hardly move . |