Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now this man had approached and addressed him in English and in an upper-class accent too . |
| 2 | And so to try and bring them to heel , er we referred the matter to the district . |
| 3 | Still an urge to hit out compelled her , a need to try and hurt him in retaliation for the pain he dealt her with his unhidden contempt . |
| 4 | I felt I ought to try and phone him at home to tip him off — if I got the chance . |
| 5 | I asked the police to ring her father and ask him to come and collect her from school . |
| 6 | John was supposed to come and meet me from work to carry my heavy shopping and then changed plans and he had just walked in with JONATHAN ( proper name JIMMY ) . |
| 7 | Then Gillian blabbed to Stuart that I wanted to come and watch her at work . |
| 8 | I said that if any of them would like to come and see me at home , I would explain exactly what was happening . |
| 9 | ‘ Gives me an excuse to come and put you to bed , I guess . |
| 10 | In John 6:15 , there is a curious statement , that ‘ Jesus , who could see why they were about to come and take him by force and make him king , escaped back to the hills by himself . ’ |
| 11 | The word ‘ mithra ’ was also used to describe a friend , and this god was thought to be a true friend of man , protecting and warming him in life and death . |
| 12 | Whirlwinds , water spouts , twisting and entangling and spinning us to destruction . |
| 13 | The penalty is that you have to decide what sizes you want and prepare them in advance , a process that can take quite a time and uses up a considerable amount of disk space . |
| 14 | I jumped into the car after my mum , dad and sister had squeezed and kissed me to death and did up my seat belt . |
| 15 | Others are opportunists , killing anything they can catch and devouring it with relish . |
| 16 | develops and trains them for promotion |
| 17 | The paupers continued under the care of the churchwardens and overseers of the parishes until the House had been built , but then the directors had powers to apprehend vagrants , single pregnant women , and other malefactors , to admit them , and to set and keep them at work — but only for a maximum of six months . |
| 18 | Decide which questions you are going to answer and put them in order of difficulty with the easiest coming first . |
| 19 | A fifteen-year-old in grey flannel wandering around London in school holidays with an adolescent 's apocalyptic vision , praying that he would lose his virginity before the bombs came and blasted him to oblivion . |
| 20 | Seb was out harrowing one of his own fields when the young stable-hand came and told him of Christian 's arrival . |
| 21 | Well , it did n't do them much good May Lee came and rescued me In fact she seized me by the arm ‘ Well ? ’ she said |
| 22 | ‘ I called — quite unexpectedly — just before you came and found her in bed , so I 'm filling her hot water bottle . ’ |
| 23 | Shouting and threatening me in front of the kids , like . |
| 24 | Stereotypes , structured sets of beliefs about social groups , can be viewed as categories that can bias the way we process information , organize and store it in memory , and make judgements about members of those categories . |
| 25 | Using the Public Windows Interface self-certification kits promised next month , independent software vendors which find their application(s) do n't run are being asked look at the source , find the undocumented Windows calls being made and give them to Sun which will add them to the PWI specification . |
| 26 | Tonight it seemed to me that Mrs Browning had still not recovered from her fear , and I suggested that I should perhaps stay and see her into bed . |
| 27 | ‘ Sub-lieutenant Bacci here will stay and help you in case you leave any gaps . ’ |
| 28 | He and Stephanie both always won Kim 's game , the objects on a tray , but whereas she remembered them for their quiddity , naming and denoting them in language in her mind , he did it with a geometrical map and total spatial recall . |
| 29 | Then , John said , he would know that she had been arrested because she had forgotten her pass , which all blacks had to carry , and would automatically telephone his father to go and fetch her from prison . |
| 30 | She wants me to go and see her after work tomorrow . ’ |