Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seems nothing at all strange about the Church , which paid the salaries of these men and expected them to serve it , considering the question of whether or not they should be able to engage in an activity which , no matter how acceptable , would have diverted them from their main task . |
| 2 | It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress . |
| 3 | He looked at me and asked me to take it . |
| 4 | Smith was a slow reader and took about an hour to read and ponder the document , after which he approved it and asked me to take it to Harold Wilson . |
| 5 | They gave me a line of coke , and asked me to do it for them . |
| 6 | He telephoned me at three o'clock in the morning , and asked me to confirm it . |
| 7 | All eight doctors signed a letter on 13 December to the Secretary of State for Health and asked me to pass it on . |
| 8 | He gave me this and asked me to deliver it to Dick Tavett . |
| 9 | A woman came up with a red balloon and asked him to autograph it , and he took out a fountain pen and commenced a squeaky signature . |
| 10 | Social Services or somebody to do with or somewhere contacted him and asked him to do it but they paid all cash . |
| 11 | Er , I 've had a word with Jeremy about decorating , oh Florrie I must apologise I did try to ring you , I think I managed to get everybody else , erm but you were n't there , in and then I , I left it I regret to say , erm but we thought perhaps we ought to have the kitchen re-decorated and I 've had a word with Jereminy , Jereminy , Jeremy and he says about two hundred pounds and I did get permission from some of you and I 've gone ahead and asked him to do it and he said about three weeks , but before we can have that done , in the meantime , the roof leaked again out in the kitchen Erm , so I 've had a word with Peter who was going on holiday and he should be home this week and he said he will look at it as soon as he 's home , so I 'll give him a ring , I 'll try tomorrow night , I 'm out tonight , I 'll try and give him a ring tomorrow . |
| 12 | He also gave Minton a copy of Pinet 's 1733 edition of Horace , with its engraved decorations , and asked him to use it as a starting point . |
| 13 | As he lay dying , Herbert handed a little book to one of his attendants and asked him to deliver it to his dear brother Nicholas Ferrar , |
| 14 | Again , he bowed his head to the child , and when she 'd run off , he tapped again on the wall , and when the boy from the cafe appeared , he handed him the bird and asked him to keep it in his cellar for coolness until he returned from Riba on the train that evening , after he had collected the rent . |
| 15 | Let's try and get it on the board , which somebody has written on and I told them about that and asked them to clean it , but , bring a spray can of white paint next time . |
| 16 | Writers have frequently attributed to cross-national research the important advantage of throwing light on one 's own country and helping one to understand it better , undermining the ‘ in-bred prejudices or preconceived ideas ’ that attend a parochial approach ( e.g. Schregle 1981 : 28 ) . |
| 17 | And helping them to do it , ’ said Breeze zealously ; but Gay shook her head . |
| 18 | In a sense this was so , but on the other hand the activity of town planning soon got bogged down in a technical bureaucracy , losing the dash and verve which sustained it during the 1940s . |
| 19 | And make him regret it — him and this Maclean ! |
| 20 | And make him do it , do it . |
| 21 | well the alternative is to , to put it in the paper and advertise it to sell it , say the , the wheels have been stolen |
| 22 | You want to scream out and make them stop it , and you want to cringe up your body and hide it somewhere , and there 's nowhere to hide , and the shells keep screaming down and blowing everything up all around you . |
| 23 | That was why I kept pushing you and provoking you — to try and make you spit it out . |
| 24 | And once I nearly got my head flattened , cos I sent up the wrong thing and bang he sent it down and I just got my head out of there in time . |
| 25 | Some moment when she , as a child , was on the verge of doing something wrong , and he could have fulfilled a father 's role and made her do it . |
| 26 | She watched and listened as he sat on the bed , held the frightened woman 's hand and made her believe it too . |
| 27 | As I handed my music to the organist , I shook so badly he bought me a brandy and made me drink it . |
| 28 | A waiter came up and made him put it on again . |
| 29 | John Urry and I then broadened it and transformed it to make it the cornerstone of our chapter on postmodernism in The End of Organized Capitalism , especially by locating it within a framework of a book which is essentially a comparative political economy of advanced capitalist societies . |
| 30 | He spread an artist 's folio before her , untied the ribbons with delicate fingers , and invited her to lay it open . |