Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arrest me and put me on a diet fast ! |
| 2 | To give him time to make his getaway he ties me up , blindfolds me , gags me and hides me in a cupboard . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They were kicking me and hitting me with a big bar . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | One day he came up behind me and pushed me into a metal locker . |
| 10 | Their company seemed to drain me and send me into a state of nervous exhaustion after even a short while . |
| 11 | ‘ I was walking home from school and a masked man grabbed me and hauled me into a car . |
| 12 | The case manager passes the reports to the lawyer who completes them and passes them to a supervisor . |
| 13 | Actually my son 's rather disappointed , he was hoping to farm them and train them into a novelty act . |
| 14 | Zack took them and passed them to a man in the passage behind him . |
| 15 | Where were all those young hopefuls , who even in their crippled state had left death behind them and saw nothing but a future ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | After she had gone upstairs Carolyn collected them and put them in a jar on the mantelpiece . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | unless they 're going to let , unless people are going to buy them and let them at a reasonable rent to people |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He cast around for somewhere to put them , and at once Mei Ling took them and gave them to a waiting servant . |
| 22 | 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 … |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | So they are , in a sense ( to be disputed on other grounds in a later chapter ) , but they are also molecules , and it is possible for human chemists to purify them , bottle them and store them on a shelf . |
| 28 | Very soon dirty plates began to cascade down the chute and my job was to knock the food remains off them and transfer them to a mechanical washer . |
| 29 | The police spokesman added : ‘ It is incredible that someone should carry so much cash around with them and leave it in a car . |
| 30 | Pull out the magazine schemes that appeal most to you and stick them in a file ; mark the pages you like in books . |