Example sentences of "[pron] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably I shall meet someone and fall in love with him and marry him and things will seem to change and I sha n't care any more . |
| 2 | If you love someone and wan na be with them , that 's got to come first . ’ |
| 3 | If he 'd met someone and wanted to be unfaithful , he would have found an opportunity and I could n't have stopped him . |
| 4 | Once there , we lifted ourselves and looked at one another , both of us laughing , trudging grass-stained to the top again . |
| 5 | Why has this major change in attitudes come about , and why all this concern about health in an affluent Western world where we can congratulate ourselves and count on our good fortune in having all the benefits of modern medicine to protect us unlike the peoples of the developing world ? |
| 6 | We must learn to hold ourselves and move with an economy of effort , using no more than the appropriate amount of energy for any activity . |
| 7 | Let us instantly go to my closet or yours and come upon our mutual trial for you have fired by soul with impatience . |
| 8 | You have to start from a pain of yours and conceive of there being something like this which hurts but which does not hurt you , and also that there could be something which is like you but not you for such pains to hurt . |
| 9 | She tore her eyes away from his and pushed through the crowd , wanting only to put a great distance between herself and Lucenzo . |
| 10 | Then , her arms under his and locked on his chest , she 'd drag my father 's dead weight from wherever he 'd fallen over to the cushions . |
| 11 | He squatted down beside her and took one of her hands in his and waited for her to go on . |
| 12 | Impulsively she put her hand over his and said with passion : ‘ You are going to have to deal with a smart , slick world , quick to ridicule those who do not understand its manners — a world where you want friends , not enemies . |
| 13 | ‘ I can just see him looking down that long nose of his and saying in that sanctimonious voice : ‘ there 's something you ought to know , Mr O'Shea … ’ |
| 14 | I shall have words with you later , Rob , ’ he added significantly , then he turned as Heather slid her arm into his and stood on tiptoe to kiss his cheek . |
| 15 | While I say this , Victor lights that cheroot of his and scowls at me through a blue fog . |
| 16 | It 's like we 're sort of living here together — you know , sort of like we 're married or summat and living in a proper house of our own and all that . |
| 17 | that 's got asthma , and he often goes into or dia he 's a ba diabetic or summat and goes into comas . |
| 18 | Steve acted swiftly , excused himself and sped after her . |
| 19 | He stopped and had a cup of tea himself and explained to the Covent Garden porters , who wanted to know what he 'd got in the back , that it was the Sleeping Beauty . |
| 20 | Constance detected a change in the atmosphere as Giancarlo excused himself and walked down the steps to greet his last guest . |
| 21 | And when he come into the pub he hears the village lads singing along with the machine and he has a go himself and gets to talking with everyone . |
| 22 | He has a tremendous respect for Fowler , adding : ‘ If he applied himself and packed in his job as a taxman he could be the best in the world . |
| 23 | Jesus , our holy representative , takes our sin upon himself and identifies with it . |
| 24 | He stretched himself and looked at his watch . |
| 25 | • Announcing his decision to ‘ unretire ’ himself and return to the Williams team next year , Nigel Mansell issued a wordy statement which posed many more questions than it answered . |
| 26 | Worse was to come though for Horsham as following a fifty fifty challenge on the edge of the Abingdon area , striker Paul Walker injured himself and had to be stretchered off . |
| 27 | We started the gradual process of bringing him back into work , hoping that he had been through all his disasters in one go : first he cut himself and had to be stitched , and then he got kicked on the hock . |
| 28 | But then he restrained himself and said in a quiet voice , ‘ Know anythin' about sailin' ? ’ |
| 29 | In such a case , the State will pay the owner the value he has established himself and presented to the Federal National Heritage Service or Custom Officers . |
| 30 | He got up slowly from his chair to stretch himself and went to the window , overlooking the back car lot . |