Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is unfortunate that the talk comes quite so soon after Christmas , but I hope all members living locally will make every effort to come and I know that they will be glad they did . |
| 2 | I willed you to come and you did and now you are here and I 'm never going to let you out of my sight again . |
| 3 | He said but I sit at night he said when she 's gone to work and he said and help them with their drawings and things they 're doing . |
| 4 | However , the trucks failed to appear and they learned that talks will be held today with the telecommunications consortium . |
| 5 | Such evidence is now beginning to appear and I believe that my hon. Friends and I will be proved to have been right all along in our predictions of the effect of the student loan scheme . |
| 6 | I want you to know and I think that you do — that I love you more than I ever did before , but in a slightly different way . |
| 7 | I must tell the House and the Minister that there are only 15 minutes left for this debate ; other hon. Members wish to participate and I hope that they will get the chance to do so . |
| 8 | There are plenty of places to visit and lots to see and do . |
| 9 | Men had to discover where to go and what to do once they got there . |
| 10 | The S.N.M. declined to attend and it seems that General Aidid did not do so either . |
| 11 | Then her eyes slowly began to focus and she realised that they had n't just been tossed on to the bed . |
| 12 | Still the Japanese refused to surrender and it appeared that the war might drag on for months , even years , at terrible cost . |
| 13 | But one morning I came to play and I found that my clubs were not there ( they had been stolen ) I then had to go through the long task of making a claim to the insurance company to try and claim some money to replace the clubs I had lost . |
| 14 | ‘ I just want to play and it looks as though I will . ’ |
| 15 | I bet she 's got ta get irate and ring me back , tell Geoff what I said , I thought well I do n't care , she 's speaks it and I 'll just say to her quietly well , you know I said now Marie 's done this to Geoff after all his hard work and he 's helped his worry anyway then defies him , he begs her to leave and she defied and she 's moved . |
| 16 | She realised that Urquhart had neither the grace nor sensitivity to apologise and she wondered whether it was due to shyness or boorishness . |
| 17 | Now , as the chairman said we base the salaries of directors on two elements an element of base salary which looks at market levels and we ergo , have a fair base which reflects a sort of medium to upper level of companies of this size we then leverage , very carefully , a bonus scheme related to performance and I believe that is the right thing to do and I believe and so do my fellow directors who sit on that committee believe that it is one of the reasons that we 've seen the great growth in this company over the last five years which you 've achieved and which actually the Chancellor of the Exchequer would very glad about because it is increasing the wealth and the benefit of this country , particularly as a lot of those earnings are coming from overseas and will in , in time be repatriated in Britain . |
| 18 | It was agreed this was not easy to do and it illustrated that deciding whether pupils had attained a long list of criteria would be a very considerable task . |
| 19 | But anyway , we jumped to it and started to jive and I decided that we were quite sympathetic and we got along quite well — a similar sense of humour , and lewd attitude towards women — we just basically got along well . |
| 20 | But we started to chat and I thought that , in spite of the rotten conditions , there might be some fun in it after all . |
| 21 | I presided over a the Criminal Law Revision Committee when we reviewed the law relating to rape and we discovered that there was this myth that women asked for rape . |
| 22 | He picks up a guitar to demonstrate and I notice that his picking action seems to be coming from his elbow , with a fairly stiff forearm … |
| 23 | Lord Northcliffe once wrote , God made people read so that I could fill their brain with facts and later tell them whom to love and whom to hate and what to think . |
| 24 | The sanctions really are beginning to bite and I wonder if Saddam feels that er he may be able to ask a favour or two from the West , in return for the release of these three British men . |
| 25 | Bill , 76 , asked Street chiefs to investigate and they discovered that episodes of the popular show screened in Britain five years ago are now topping the ratings in Thailand and they have made Percy a national hero . |
| 26 | It is much more a question of knowledge and awareness of which foods to eat and which to avoid than it is of following blindly someone else 's strict regime . |
| 27 | I have to confess that I had not anticipated the direction that your inquiries were going to take and I feel that my immediate responses were fragmented and unhelpful . |
| 28 | George 's wits began to return and he realised that he would have soon passed from sleep to death , if Elizabeth had not found him . |
| 29 | And er she erm she said , I know what you wanted to say and I appreciate that you find it difficult to put it into words |
| 30 | What we were trying to say is there is actually a place and my Right Honourable Friend thinks that there is and indeed so do I , for people to contribute to the problem of policing in their locality who have n't necessarily for one reason or another and my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw said , decided not to erm be on the police authority , maybe they have n't had time , maybe there has n't been their , their particular but nevertheless they do know and they do care about their locality and they have got a er er a contribution to make and we think that that would actually improve the local the police authorities , provided that they are not in an overwhelming position and that is the reason why we 've suggested that eight erm t er , er , er o of a police authority of sixteen , eight should be councillors in the majority , five should be independents and three should be er er er magistrates and My Lords and then of course the complaint was ah , but then some people may not be properly represented and the number ought to be larger . |