Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [verb] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me take hold of that weakness of yours and let me change your water into wine . ’ |
| 2 | She had modelled her speech on his and asked him to correct her if she said something wrong . |
| 3 | And so when God comes to me and asks me to do something he 's already walked that path before me . |
| 4 | He looked at me and asked me to take it . |
| 5 | I thought at the time she made nought of it , but back last summer , like you say , round August bank 'oliday , she came to see me and asked me to tell 'er everything I remembered 'bout the day of the explosion . |
| 6 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 7 | and I 'm going to write down the answers they give me and get them to sign them because I have I have really been beaten about the head by this ! |
| 8 | Come to me and let me give you what you want . ’ |
| 9 | Fellow Jews , and all of you who live in Jerusalem , listen to me and let me tell you what this means . |
| 10 | ‘ I want you to come out to Leytonstone with me and let me show you something . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Well , ’ he said slowly , ‘ you could put your arms around my neck , press your soft body into me and let me know you accept my offering . ’ |
| 12 | Why did n't you ring me and let me know you were coming ? |
| 13 | And he hung it there for me and made me feel its proportions . |
| 14 | I left him the fare I had been quoted , but he pursued me and stopped me entering my flat . |
| 15 | He laid the naked red scrap briefly in Effie 's arms , and said abruptly to McAllister , ‘ Let Rose do that while you take the baby from me and find something to wrap it in . |
| 16 | Before I begin to read I push some boxes across to the place where Summerchild sat facing me and dust them to make him a desk and chair . |
| 17 | ‘ You heard how Bathsheba loves me and expects me to visit her tonight . |
| 18 | who Sukey ? , she goes to me , he I doubt , doubt if he 'd fancy me , but she 's just like , she 's all going I doubt if he fancy me and do you think he does ? |
| 19 | To read me and think you understand me and yet not to understand me . |
| 20 | Jess took a step backwards , muttering under her breath : ‘ God protect me and forgive me sins I did n't meant no wrong … ’ without believing in much except bruises , hunger and Fate which had a nasty way of turning the tables against her , but willing at the same time to try anything once . |
| 21 | Oh sir , do you look at me and say you see someone who has been doing the ill-treating ? ’ |
| 22 | Yet you do not have to spend very long with them to appreciate how India , then as now , has turned them into what they are , how it has brutalized them and forced them to anaesthetize their own sensibilities . |
| 23 | Left them and said we left them and said |
| 24 | ‘ And I auditioned and was given the stage role , but I think Michael Crawford called them and said he wanted it , and they ousted me . |
| 25 | He set up an organisation called BSC Industry , which had the prime task of counselling redundant steel workers , retraining them and helping them to redirect their careers and , in many instances , set up their own small businesses . |
| 26 | They trusted her for it ; an outlier psion could not go running to Them and reveal who hired her and for what reason . |
| 27 | Some parents , in their understandable desire to make their children happy , give in to them and let them have everything they ask for . |
| 28 | He again went to see them and persuaded them to accompany him to a meeting at the police station with Mr McLean on August 24 . |
| 29 | She left his number with them and asked them to get him to ring , then made another drink . |
| 30 | I ‘ hung ’ them and asked him to choose which one was best . |