Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opening her door , she edged inside and tried to close it . |
| 2 | We love her so much and want to give her a lovely home . |
| 3 | I told her that I loved her very much and wanted to marry her . |
| 4 | The phone rang , and she rose lethargically and went to answer it . |
| 5 | Many people value their group award certificates , such as HNC or HND , highly and wish to display them or present them to prospective employers . |
| 6 | ANC president Nelson Mandela was informed by Bush of his decision personally and tried to dissuade him . |
| 7 | I wondered , if Jean-Claude were there , why the child had not said so and gone to fetch him for me ? |
| 8 | Maurice clasped his hands together and seemed to study them . |
| 9 | The doctor brought his hands together and seemed to study them . |
| 10 | He kept pulling on the stick , then swung away and made to carry it off . |
| 11 | He led her inside and left her at one side of the room , walking softly away and stopping to face her at the other side . |
| 12 | I can tell you right now that there are plenty of indi I I 'm I 'm going to say this up front , there are plenty of individuals who 've taken the information away and tried to do it themselves . |
| 13 | I pulled him away and tried to get him upstairs in case he was traumatized for life , but he kicked me in the balls . |
| 14 | But all of them endorse one or the other of the principles of political neutrality mentioned above and seek to implement it by some variant of the following principles of restraint which limit the political relevance of ideals of the good . |
| 15 | Hearing the Vice-President was downstairs and wished to see him , President Cormack walked through into the Yellow Oval Room and said he would greet Odell there . |
| 16 | They told the men in custody that they would be released soon and appeared to believe it . |
| 17 | She 's lost her head utterly and decided to marry me instead ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You could have had a hundred casual affairs , and I 'd have adjusted to them somehow and tried to make you fall in love with me , but the thought that you 'd loved someone else and still loved him , because it seemed to have gone on over the years , periodically resumed … |
| 19 | Manson saw that somehow and decided to write them a letter because he did n't like being called a creep . |
| 20 | He picked a newly constructed swatch of samples up from the desk in front of him and chucked it at Antinou , who caught the flopping thing one-handed and proceeded to fondle it familiarly . |
| 21 | He must have been chopping wood outside and forgotten to hide it . |
| 22 | ‘ Why do n't you go outside and try to talk it to death ? ’ |
| 23 | So he takes her outside and tries to rape her and the other one comes up with a gun and she says let her go . |
| 24 | Anyway , she seemed to cheer up a bit listening to their trite old remarks about it coming to everybody , and after that her mother had been all right and seemed to accept it . |
| 25 | She looked around her despairingly and began to push him towards the pantry . |
| 26 | ‘ Mrs Salome Asmoyah , ’ I said politely and offered to spell it . |
| 27 | I was very happy ; and if sometimes the familiarities in our relationship were of an irritating nature ( like the way he teased me , as he had always teased me , about my sticking-out ears , for instance ) I pushed them aside and refused to acknowledge them — even when they were quite important , the sort of things on which the nagging small voice was once wont to pounce as reasons against any positive commitment . |
| 28 | ‘ I say he must either wreak his vengeance on Wedale and retreat , or he must go further and seek to destroy you and your whole power . ’ |
| 29 | I did his tape copy on the machine I was using for echo and it was switched to vari-speed , so the copy was played at almost half the speed and when he got it home and wanted to play it to his friends , it sounded rather strange . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , he came to Trantridge once and tried to show me how wicked my life was . |