Example sentences of "[pron] and [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And rather than asking for commission from suppliers he often buys the weapons himself and sells them at a profit . |
| 2 | But Richard 's polite attempt to straighten himself and to give something like a slight bow made the damage to his lung rather worse . |
| 3 | He could think of nothing but disguising himself and rushing her on a dark night . |
| 4 | Arrest me and put me on a diet fast ! |
| 5 | To give him time to make his getaway he ties me up , blindfolds me , gags me and hides me in a cupboard . |
| 6 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 7 | And then , I liked having nice little teas served to me for a change ; to have Wilson taking care of me and treating me like a lady — because there was a little something between us . |
| 8 | I knew about them because of being at art college and I took Steve and Paul down with me and introduced them to a scene they knew nothing about . |
| 9 | They were kicking me and hitting me with a big bar . |
| 10 | I took your violets home with me and have them in a vase in my room , and Mrs Gracie the housekeeper ( who owns the pug ) takes them out at night as she says they poison the air when one is asleep . |
| 11 | Then you follow me and hit me with a driver and drop away quickly because I 'm going to hit it so fast he wo n't know where the ball is until it 's down the fairway . ’ |
| 12 | One day he came up behind me and pushed me into a metal locker . |
| 13 | Their company seemed to drain me and send me into a state of nervous exhaustion after even a short while . |
| 14 | ‘ I was walking home from school and a masked man grabbed me and hauled me into a car . |
| 15 | The case manager passes the reports to the lawyer who completes them and passes them to a supervisor . |
| 16 | Actually my son 's rather disappointed , he was hoping to farm them and train them into a novelty act . |
| 17 | Zack took them and passed them to a man in the passage behind him . |
| 18 | Where were all those young hopefuls , who even in their crippled state had left death behind them and saw nothing but a future ? |
| 19 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 20 | And er I remembering Dad , once he bought a cherry tree , and went up to get all these here cherries off the trees , and when we got them we used to wipe them and put them in a bag , and sell them at the fairs . |
| 21 | After she had gone upstairs Carolyn collected them and put them in a jar on the mantelpiece . |
| 22 | If there is someone at work whose approach to patients or clinical abilities you admire then observe them and use them as a role model . |
| 23 | unless they 're going to let , unless people are going to buy them and let them at a reasonable rent to people |
| 24 | I also heard that a party of girls from Bishop 's Home orphanage school in Rangoon had got stranded at Katha and I was able to send a telegram to Jack Cardew of the Burma Railways asking him to extricate them and get them on a train to Myitkyina . |
| 25 | He cast around for somewhere to put them , and at once Mei Ling took them and gave them to a waiting servant . |
| 26 | Peel , halve and core them and place them in a saucepan … cover with the wine and a broken cinnamon stick and heat until barely simmering … wash the monkfish and pat dry with kitchen paper … just as the liquid begins to caramelise , add the lemon juice and stir vigorously … reduced to a quarter of its original volume … add the cubes one at a time … thread the piece of monkfish … reserving the liquid … baste the fruit continuously … intersperse with pears … hand the sauce separately … |
| 27 | Then there was a heavy pause , like the moment a ball must feel between the time it 's thrown up and the time it starts to come down , and something picked up all three of them and slid them into a struggling heap . |
| 28 | They started to run meetings in the house for the wives of the clergy , where Ramsey talked theology to them and mixed it with a lot of humour . |
| 29 | Scouts assistant county commissioner Dave Jackson said : ‘ They were in full uniform and the old man started shouting Hitler Youth at them and hitting them with a stick . |
| 30 | What amazes me is how often they 'll say to me ‘ Thank you very much for treating me like a human being ’ because however drunk they are in the churchyard I always believe that you 're much more likely to get somewhere with somebody if you are polite and kind to them and treat them like a real human being , and you can get into all sorts of fascinating conversations with these people even when they are fairly drunk , because actually they are real human beings , they are n't awful people . |