Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because the foreigner was stronger than you and conquered you . |
| 2 | He thought to himself , right , you 've called the boy Hilbert to please me , to make me like him , so I damn well will like him , I 'll like him more than you and leave him the place over your head . ’ |
| 3 | Typical of immigrants , her parents were anxious that she should do better than they and persuaded her to take up teaching as a profession . |
| 4 | Stanley can see through Blanche 's lies and deception but what annoys him is the pretence that Blanche puts on pretending to be better than him and taunting him by calling him a ‘ Polak ’ . |
| 5 | But two lorry drivers passing the scene described Mrs Chandler 's attacker as slightly smaller than her and estimated his height at five feet eight or nine inches . |
| 6 | Finally , the matter lay solely between God and me and had nothing in time or eternity to do with anyone else . |
| 7 | God is able to take the common in you and me and make it a sacrament of blessing for others . |
| 8 | Should we would you like Ian , Zain and I and does anybody else want to be involved . |
| 9 | And if she and do you know what ? |
| 10 | ‘ The letters say ‘ you should have sold him , him and him and bought him , him and him ’ . |
| 11 | Him and him and do you remember that ? |
| 12 | Then the judges come before you and tell you that if you wish to ascend you must erase your karma , and do penance for crimes in your life . |
| 13 | Yeah Rob yeah Rob you know you should have done taken like a hair out of your head , placed it in there before you and pulled it out . |
| 14 | on nine , facing Tufnell , digs out a full-length ball and guides it down on the off side , poor old David Lawrence has to give another painful chase their from backward point , but er , he lumbers after it and sends it an energetic return on the er , he 's swivelling round as he threw it . |
| 15 | I sent my hand after it and touched it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Lévi-Strauss has rendered social anthropology an invaluable service in emphasizing the significance of such contrasting motifs ; although we need not go so far as him and turn our subject into an esoteric animal , vegetable or mineral parlour-game in which every card is a joker and can assume whatever meaning the player likes . |
| 18 | To anyone familiar with the conventions of the second-person singular in modern European languages it is no surprise to learn that Shakespeare preserves the distinction You/Thou primarily to express the relationship far/near , as when a parent addresses a child ( or a master a servant ) as Thou and receives You in reply . |