Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] and [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He again went to see them and persuaded them to accompany him to a meeting at the police station with Mr McLean on August 24 . |
| 2 | And er you know , it 's lovely really to see them and to think they remember you still is n't it . |
| 3 | I thought at the time she made nought of it , but back last summer , like you say , round August bank 'oliday , she came to see me and asked me to tell 'er everything I remembered 'bout the day of the explosion . |
| 4 | He said he 'd flown over urgently to see me and asked me to come to the Cheshire Cheese , that pub in Fleet Street , at ten o'clock that night . |
| 5 | I remember her coming to see me and begging me to help when he was arrested . |
| 6 | ‘ But I would like to thank them and let them know how very grateful I am and how much it helps to know his grave is being cared for . ’ |
| 7 | The soft , sweet sounds of the piano dropped round me , intoxicating me and compelling me to follow as I drifted towards the sound like a child of Hamelin . |
| 8 | In Africa visitors are looked upon as a blessing and people go out of their way to meet them and make them feel truly welcome and at home . |
| 9 | When they were long enough , he intended to curl them and allow them to extend down at the sides of his mouth . |
| 10 | The people who add value are all around us , we 've got to find them and empower them to drive the changes which will make ICI a stronger player in all its businesses . |
| 11 | The making of great telescopes , and of the mountings which would direct them and keep them focused on a star , required great industrial resources and skill . |
| 12 | But forgive me and let me succeed . |
| 13 | She phoned me and asked me to come straight over . |
| 14 | I left him the fare I had been quoted , but he pursued me and stopped me entering my flat . |
| 15 | John Kelly loves them and helps you choose the best ones for your garden |
| 16 | ‘ You heard how Bathsheba loves me and expects me to visit her tonight . |
| 17 | Poems order experience and share it ; understanding them and writing them involves an act of creativity , and in both activities there is a kind of joy involved when the order of words , or insight into the effect of that order , corresponds with the way things are . |
| 18 | ‘ I can either trust you and allow you to take charge of the whole business , or I can decide you 're not to be trusted and take charge of things myself . |
| 19 | She must judge , too ; he thought she would trust him and let him have his way . |
| 20 | But Claire Fraser was out there and he had undertaken to find her and persuade her to come home . |
| 21 | When you exacerbate this situation by confronting him with direct questioning or something which intimidates him and causes him to feel even more nervous , his breathing can become so rapid and so shallow that it borders on hyperventilation . |
| 22 | Chief Constable Burrows was outside his club in Friar Street when a fellow-member approached him and suggested he looked into the whereabouts of Philip Drew , an actor who was performing in a play called The Monster at Reading 's Royal Theatre at the time of the Oliver murder . |
| 23 | Infant teacher has it and asks me to make sure that the Head of Primary knows that one of the children had a fit on the bus this morning . |
| 24 | Terror gripped her so completely that she was incapable of opening it and let it fall to the floor where — she very nearly followed it in a faint . |
| 25 | Then empty it and allow it to dry . |
| 26 | And so when you 're pushing pressing on that squashing it and making it flow into sheets the pulling on it and seeing whether it will stretch or whether it . |
| 27 | I went up to the union and reported it and asked them to do something about it . |
| 28 | In poetry such a transport is evoked by a pattern of words ( selected by the poet perhaps with the most intense thought and effort ) , which stabilizes it and allows me to evaluate it at leisure . |
| 29 | Grant McDougall , of Christie 's , said : ‘ Ray approached us and asked us to value the items . |
| 30 | Today I asked him to bind me and gag me and let me sit at the foot of the cellar steps with the door out open . |