Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Must now conclude trusting my dear that every blessing will attend you and trusting I may find you well when I return — kiss dear Fritz [ ? ] for me and believe me to remain Eliza
2 ‘ If you were n't already so bruised and battered I 'd turn you over my knee and make sure you had nothing to laugh about . ’
3 Bookmarks are easy to make and using one will help you look after your books .
4 We could then leave it and say we 'll pick it up in an hour or so
5 The Chicheley-Smythes have bought an absolutely super villa in Sardinia and say we could rent it if we 'd like to .
6 I may be tempted to offer the spontaneous inclination itself as reason for my choice , and say I shall do it because I want to do it ; but in examining myself objectively I see that a fact about my wants and likes would be directly relevant only to a causal explanation of my actions , and could be used in deciding what to do only as I use any other objective facts .
7 Spokesman Mark Glover said : ‘ We have been supported by Linda McCartney , Elton John and others in the past and hope they 'll support us now . ’
8 After the case jobless Heath said : ‘ I still love her and hope we can make it back together . ’
9 When the Frenchman signed for Leeds at the start of the year , I said that he was more a Manchester United player than a Leeds man — and I still believe that now , and hope he will prove it .
10 You know it 's a magical item and hope he can use it . )
11 Those which have are reaping impressive rewards simply by identifying precisely the services or products customers want ; looking at their most lucrative areas ; finding out what clients really value ; and establishing what would make them move to a competing hotel .
12 That was bad enough , but when he told my daughter it started three weeks after they married and lasted until three months ago , she threw him out and she 's changed the locks of the house and says she will divorce him .
13 and says he 'll ring you .
14 But when — suddenly — for no apparent reason your twin rejects the offer of marriage from the man you always believed she loved , and whom you always loved yourself ; when she turns round and says you can marry him yourself if you feel that strongly about him … suddenly your world is upside down .
15 She drew a line down the centre of Stella 's nose with a stick of No.5 and gestured she should rub it in .
16 The Widow Douglas , she took me for her son , and allowed she would sivilize me ; but it was rough living in the house all the time , considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways ; and so when I could n't stand it no longer , I lit out .
17 But trying to classify and understand them will show you a good deal about what is going on for that child .
18 Parke certainly has a brain and showed he could use it under pressure .
19 If it becomes necessary for you to cancel and claim you must notify us ( or your travel agent ) immediately to obtain a cancellation invoice before claiming .
20 Anyway , before anyone from the crew of the boat could get ashore they saw two uniformed constables come down , and reckoned they 'd leave them to it .
21 and know you can do it in less than an hour , right to the bottom
22 Thus the main task of childhood is to achieve a sense of its own distinctive personal identity and to do what will reinforce it .
23 ‘ I might do the tennis stuff for three or four years and decide I can do it sleepwalking and turn to something I really care about and like to pursue , which is politics . ’
24 As a matter of fact' — he frowned in concentration — ‘ I do recall her putting a matchbook in her handbag at one point and saying she would pass it on to Heather because she collected the things .
25 I am the only golden eagle you know now and you may think all are like me , and become trusting and believe they will help you .
26 I have now been a member of the Institute since my election in April 1991 and feel I must compliment you on Credit Management .
27 Miranda thought of M. Apéritif last night , and decided she would let him go further when she next saw him , in spite of the lizard darting of his small and oddly hard tongue in the kiss she 'd allowed him at the door of the hotel .
28 erm because that 's like a continuous thing erm with with some other stuff , if it 's just like essays or projects due in at the end of this term or beginning of next , you know get , get the light stuff out of the way first erm and try you may find it easier if you , if you , what I used to do was sort of try and , you know , pace it out a little bit and not try and write an essay all at once because I found that very difficult to do but if you just sort of write a paragraph and do , do something else for a bit and you know kind of write another paragraph a bit later on in the day and , and , you know , kind of erm you know work , you know do n't , do n't try and write an essay all in one evening but try and sort of , you know , if you 've managed to spread it out over the course of a few days so that you do n't have to do too much at once I mean it 's difficult to concentrate on one thing
29 Say that for me and go I 'd say it were you were a snob .
30 If my lips had words for the wondrous feeling of your breasts and nipples I 'd say them .
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