Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Your Dad and me 's got something to show you . ’
2 The cash it has taken from the likes of you and me has gone to cover its losses caused by firms going to the wall because of the recession .
3 And I says come on , let's go up my house .
4 And I says let us see , and she 's and I says now keep back and I rung Don and explained and the doctor said Jean just ring for an ambulance .
5 So he 's away to Kilkeel and I says getting engaged and he says to me do you want rid of me or something ?
6 Bill only likes H P beans and I give Maggie a tin of them seventeen P beans and I says throw the tin away before he sees it and he could n't tell the difference .
7 Thirty quid it 's gorgeous , I looked at it she picked this one up , white , and I says do n't like it
8 I showed it Tom next door , I says er , it , I says , he came and had a drink and to , and to see Evelyn and I says look you can tell Oliand and Dog Tongue
9 And I goes do this to Ricky go up to Lucy and go yo , hot chick !
10 ‘ E's my brother , miss , and 'e 's come to pay yer a visit , ’ I answered nervously .
11 she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship .
12 But like then er , she , she just turned round to him and she goes tell you what , I would really , really , love it if you woke up tomorrow and you had ginger hair , cos that 'd really , really give you a dose of your own medicine !
13 And she goes get out of my house now you little bastard !
14 And we si and we sing it upstairs and she goes wandering up the stairs and we hide in the airing cupboard !
15 Yeah , she looked a state but she looked she 's got two dogs and all her shoes have got rather attractive , as she says , V-shaped in the back of her shoe by these dogs and she comes in and she goes look !
16 And erm come up to me today and she goes have you got any scissors ?
17 He goes urgh , cobwebs and she goes piss off !
18 And she goes excuse me and she goes back in .
19 Having acknowledged that , Cabinet does meet less frequently , it discusses fewer formal papers , it is presented with more virtual faits accomplis at the last moment , and she does prefer to work in ad hoc groups — many of the most important ones remaining outside the Cabinet-committee structure .
20 Sally 's latest work is large , very large , and she plans to increase the size of her canvases .
21 Seems like the only parts they got for a young actress nowadays she gets six lines , they cut three and she gets raped in the first ten minutes .
22 This was followed with Sulph. 0/2 and she continues to improve .
23 The UK produced her own great rockers in the 50s — and she continues to do so , in the shape of red-hot revivalists like Shakin' Stevens and Alvin Stardust .
24 But her enthusiasm for this sport has not subsided and she continues to ski ‘ from restaurant to restaurant ’ .
25 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 .
26 Course there 's er a big , big nigger come one day for a job and she says get stripped off .
27 And she says to leave swearing on .
28 And she says go and have a meal
29 And she says come on , my , you girl I tell you this and that .
30 it is all wrong , cos I says to Stuart we had , we were at him Monday , I says why is it this year I says I get a , a thing to go to court on Monday , I says and yet last year I says I did n't pay mine till end of February she says oh well they 're getting stricter this year she says , oh you 've got a court thing fifteen pound and I says yeah and she says paying that , I said no I 'm not paying that cos I pay what I owe , I said but I 'm not paying the fifteen pound court cost
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