Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a man that used to come and they called him the gauger well we would likely call him the customs officer now . |
| 2 | ‘ The hard part is still to come and I know I wo n't be given any big money to strengthen the squad , even if we stay at the top . |
| 3 | She agreed to come and I took her first to the more brilliantly decorated one , not knowing that she was not only a very religious woman but also a girl who had been brought up in the strictest kind of convent — no heating , nothing for show . |
| 4 | And then he was partly taken over by a piece he neither intended nor wanted to write and which preoccupied him obsessively , the dramatisation of the dispute , in the Yellow House in Arles , between Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh . |
| 5 | At first , when the L Dopa starts to work and he signals his awakening with some familiar Dr Niro facial ticks and mannerisms you think he might be blowing it . |
| 6 | I said I did n't want to talk and you attacked me . ’ |
| 7 | But I used to do work for customer down the garage there he used to have two cars to hire and I drove one in my spare time . |
| 8 | She began to shiver and she felt her heart hammering in anger . |
| 9 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 10 | He was getting ready to retire and I thought I 'd have lots of time with him . ’ |
| 11 | Her foot began to tingle and she shifted her position . |
| 12 | Everybody talking , everybody 's giving each other the gen of what to do and where to go and what have you . |
| 13 | We tried to persuade Tom not to go and I told him to stay well away from the horses . |
| 14 | I said I want to go and I meant it . |
| 15 | Well she thoroughly enjoyed the life , in fact right up , oh till nearly the end she spoke about Pharay and as long as she was able she used to go and she imagined she could see it better with the spy glasses . |
| 16 | Alain carefully ignored her until it was time to go and she watched his car sweep from the house with very mixed feelings . |
| 17 | Well , they always said it was the only way to go and he believed it . |
| 18 | ‘ I turned to go and he hit me . |
| 19 | He 's Mr Nice Guy , you see , he talks about going in when you have something nice and positive to promote and you think he does n't actually read The Sun . |
| 20 | He had nothing to lose and they had everything . |
| 21 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
| 22 | But this young one , a very spiritual guy , like a leftover from The Deer Hunter with a black headband and black jersey , said he wanted to shoo these journalists ; he had a revolver with him all the time , he is licensed to kill and he says he 'd shoot them if they came near , and I said ‘ No , please do n't do that , I 'll get in more trouble , ’ and he said , ‘ I ‘ ll just hit them in the knee . ’ |
| 23 | I think it 's a very , very difficult line to tread and I think it 's one that the university is clearing thinking about . |
| 24 | I said it 's an application in triplicate I 'm go I 'd erm , I forgotten what it was I was going to buy and I said I wanted to discuss this with you and when we can go and get it |
| 25 | Taylor to resign and them to offer it to Wilko |
| 26 | So he has control over what he wants to hear and I have my own mixer on stage . |
| 27 | Mrs Browning handed her Ellen 's missive as though it were hardly fit to handle and she took it with equal reluctance . |
| 28 | If you 've got it to use and you plan your retirement is , is n't that if what you 're hoping to do ? |
| 29 | Billie had drifted back to sleep and he shook her awake . |
| 30 | The University is small , easy to manage and I think it 's providing all of the managerial challenges . |