Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember a tear running down my cheek and me trying to smile it away . |
| 2 | I know the time is slipping and I hope to get it done in the next two weeks . |
| 3 | My elder daughter has read ‘ Some Other Rainbow ’ in which you receive honourable mention and I hope to read it soon . |
| 4 | And I like to keep it that way still if I can , because you can make yourself a lot of work over some small incident sometimes . |
| 5 | I 'm here for one reason — to do a job , and I mean to carry it through to the best of my ability , with or without your approval . |
| 6 | In a few weeks time , I hope to get a short spell of leave , and I mean to devote it exclusively to literary work . |
| 7 | I have no hard and fast views on the matter and I undertake to consider it , but there are no immediate plans to do as the hon. and learned Gentleman suggests . |
| 8 | Thing is , I 've got my heater right in front of my wardrobe , and I 've to move it so someone 'll open my bloody wardrobe . |
| 9 | I am looking for a 2hr 8min pace and I prepared to take it up if it falls below that . ’ |
| 10 | I knitted myself a dress from that which started off fawn , but we ran out of that colour and I had to finish it off in blue . |
| 11 | I read it through as four pounds , and Brenda next to me is saying , fourteen and I had to re-read it , it , course it 's fourteen . |
| 12 | So they had me as continuity and I got the job and it was a bit of a struggle because I 'd always been traffic , traffic at work but this was a little bit different in that if you had to do more accountancy and I had to pick it up . |
| 13 | ‘ Funnily enough , I was doing a charity show two weeks ago to raise money for our local scouts and I had to sing it so I know there are four goolies in the song . ’ |
| 14 | Mind you these was instructions from the office to me , telling me what I , what they wanted and I had to carry it out . |
| 15 | But they lied to me and I had to do it in English . |
| 16 | it was someone else that told me but told me not to tell anyone and I had to beg it out of him cos I just wanted to know . |
| 17 | aha , well I 'm , I 'm doing er couple of Oxos and I had to thicken it with some self raising flour , it was alright |
| 18 | And I had to put it on the seat of my bicycle , push it all the way and it 'd be a good mile from Street to right across from . |
| 19 | And I had to answer it . |
| 20 | but I never had anything , I just went from one to the another , and I had to take it in the hall one day and I was n't , I was never very good at maths anyway , not that kind of maths . |
| 21 | It stretched it and started all bleeding and I had and I had to sew it up with a sewing kit . |
| 22 | They were reading it down the tape and I had to tape it all . |
| 23 | I mean we went to pick babe up five o'clock erm Saturday and I had to ring it were really freezing cold |
| 24 | ‘ My grandfather built it , my father ran it — and I had to dismantle it . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But I promised you that painting on your wedding day , and I had to send it . ’ |
| 26 | On another occasion he drove me back to my hotel and I had to make it very clear it was n't on . |
| 27 | Eventually a headline from The Sun 's sports pages leapt out at me and I had to try it : Frog 's Legs . |
| 28 | I mean I mentioned it to him afterwards but it was the sudden notice of the deadline … and I had to get it down on paper very quickly . |
| 29 | When justices are advised not to have regard to statements of evidence and to medical reports on that ground they are being deprived of potentially valuable material in these difficult cases and I wish to make it clear that hearsay evidence is available to assist the court in all these cases although its weight will always be a matter for the judgment of the court . |
| 30 | " I have given my word , and I wish to keep it , " she said eventually . |