Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [verb] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm In principle it should be possible to be able to speak into a microphone , or to write on a pad , with a pencil , and the computer would be connected to the microphone or the pad and would take in and interpret what you 've done , without having to learn this rather clumsy method of putting things in one letter at a time . |
| 2 | People keep coming in and telling me I 'm doing wonderfully — but where 's the baby ? |
| 3 | But I think tomorrow I 'm gon na take it in and tell her I ca n't do it . |
| 4 | Well just go in and tell her you 'd like to enquire about your claim . |
| 5 | ‘ Better still , ’ Anya orders , ‘ call in and tell them you 're on an all-day job out of town . |
| 6 | Come in and tell me your news . ’ |
| 7 | They all come in and tell us we 're the busiest and I say well if we 're the busiest , God help those that 're the quietest . |
| 8 | They put Jenny [ Phil 's wife ] in a grotty old side ward so that she did n't upset any other of the patients , no one come in and tell us anything . |
| 9 | Perhaps they turned up outside , looked in and saw nobody they knew and went away again . |
| 10 | In fact , he could n't remember ever having heard of it until the day Shiva came in and told them what he had found . |
| 11 | Martin came in and told me I was supposed to be upstairs , Steve was has gone into where I was so |
| 12 | It was astonishing to her that he came in and told her his day , as usual , forking his food and waving the fork to show her when he had been his most witty and amusing . |
| 13 | One day , the Head of Sixth Form — a teacher called Don Palmer — came in and asked what we were doing . |
| 14 | Lanre Oke , defending , said Sandiford , 29 , was in the robing room at Southend Crown Court when Laurence Marshall came in and asked what he was doing . |
| 15 | The Commander 's gay as a grasshopper , old Dass 's son walks in and tells them they make him sick to the teeth . |
| 16 | Fear that I have only dreamed of moving forward , that when I go in and face it I will see that it is a mistake , not possible , uninteresting . |
| 17 | If , however , Gavin had stomped in and told her she was a piece of shit , would the audience with the Goddess Of Tedium have lasted for more than one sentence ? |
| 18 | Let's have a look in and see what you 've done to the poor old thing . |
| 19 | You get some lemonade with cyanide in it and some Coke with cyanide in and see what she drinks . |
| 20 | But , firms are beginning to open up and give us an opportunity actually to take youngsters in and see what it 's all about . |
| 21 | I 'll call in and see what he wanted before I go , ’ I lied . |
| 22 | I mean it 's an ideal job you 'd be able to fit a round in and do what you want to do . |
| 23 | I said these daft buggers that come in and do it it 's up to them . |
| 24 | Automatically , she led them in and gave them their feed . |
| 25 | At 10.30 the men can stand down and do what they like — study , read , watch television — until midnight when , if all is quiet , they turn in . |
| 26 | Since there had been clearly nothing she could do about the situation , Laura had been forced to buckle down and do what she could to keep the twins happy . |
| 27 | If you want that done , you 'll have to come down and do it yourself . |
| 28 | Groups of men had been working ceaselessly since the battle to tear them down and salvage what they could of their contents . |
| 29 | But unless Mr Clinton sits him down and tells him what he believes in , Mr Gergen will work no miracles . |
| 30 | They create a drag-like static that slows him down and pollutes what you would have to call his aura . |