Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll tell you what else you can do ; you can make half a dozen or so of those currant buns of yours and take them with you on Saturday as a kind of present for the lady . ’ |
| 2 | It took every ounce of self-control he possessed not to crush her fingers with his and pull her into his arms . |
| 3 | They must have drunk deeply because the very next week in her column Beatrice introduces her readers to a ‘ charming book of Breton verse by Max Jacob ’ , translates a poem of his and describes him as ‘ one of the few classical critics in the world ’ . |
| 4 | Taking her hand warmly in his and tucking it into his pocket , he ordered softly , ‘ Tell me about Elinor Browne with an ‘ E ’ . ’ |
| 5 | He held both her hands in his and brought them to his lips . |
| 6 | Isobel stared at him , then laughed , drew her arm through his and pulled him towards the door . |
| 7 | The man takes my hands in his and places them within the box and around the point of life . |
| 8 | Are losing theirs and blaming it on you |
| 9 | Eventually my father took me to my room , undressed me and put me to bed . |
| 10 | This was a big step for me and put me on the road to caddying top tournaments at a very young age . |
| 11 | Arrest me and put me on a diet fast ! |
| 12 | ‘ He used to buy slimming magazines for me and put them in my bag , ’ remembers Victoria , who lives in Manchester . |
| 13 | He took it from me and put it on the mantelpiece . |
| 14 | ‘ Did n't you see him take it from me and put it inside his own shirt ? |
| 15 | I 've brought a bottle with me and put it in the fridge . |
| 16 | I 'll take you up with me and put you to bed . ’ |
| 17 | The delay was enough for Clerval to catch me and seize me from behind . |
| 18 | Lie down with me and cover them with my blanket . ’ |
| 19 | To give him time to make his getaway he ties me up , blindfolds me , gags me and hides me in a cupboard . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's just that I doubt that your grandmother sent you after me with instructions to — to abduct me and drag me to Rome at any cost . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ That 's in the future but it will be another chapter in the book and I am sure Joe is going to point a few things out to me and help me along the way . |
| 22 | In a Welsh farm family the grandmother was bedridden , and child-care fell to the grandfather : ‘ cause he was in the house , he was the one that looked after me and kept me in order . ’ |
| 23 | know me and name me to each other have they |
| 24 | Yet again , looking at this urbane relaxed figure seated opposite me and comparing him with the romantic figures of Spender and others or with the scruffy Auden , I found it difficult to believe that he was a poet and not rather some worldly and successful company director . |
| 25 | You will take my dyes , my remedies , my secrets away from me and use them for others . |
| 26 | After she had squeezed blood out of me and squirted it into little bottles , she said ‘ Thank you very much ’ — I thought ‘ That was n't so bad ’ and was halfway out the door when a nurse redirected me to a bed and rolled up my sleeve . |
| 27 | Sometimes the English Catholics write to me and ask me for help , and sometimes I write to them . |
| 28 | They will understand me too quickly ; they will turn my own generosity against me and despise me for the lovers I took ; and they will cast me as the woman who briefly threatened to interfere with the writing of the books which they have enjoyed reading . |
| 29 | He wrenches his cigarette from his mouth , glares at me and grinds it into the ashtray , disconcerted by the firecracker element . |
| 30 | Mother wrote me and told me about poor Simon 's death , but what about Yanto and Nigger . |