Example sentences of "a [noun] and [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd slave my guts out on a case and think I 'd got it settled and a week later the woman would turn up in my office with the same dreary tale . |
| 2 | I 'll use a cheque and hope I have enough in the account back home . ’ |
| 3 | He 's honest to a fault and makes me feel I 'm greatly loved . |
| 4 | Perhaps you 'd give a ring and let me know I 'd welcome your feedback . " |
| 5 | pound fifty or something for like a shampoo and rinse I mean I 'd use it if I go in there . |
| 6 | I put my arm across his shoulders , and as he leaned against me for a moment and sobbed I wondered if he had ever been able to cry like this — like a little boy with somebody to comfort him . |
| 7 | ‘ Now , Charles , if you would calm down a moment and allow me to get a word in , I would be able to inform you that I have already negotiated just such a deal for you . ’ |
| 8 | Then they took me into a room and told me to take my dress off . |
| 9 | knead sand into a ball and made me carry |
| 10 | I think it might be an excellent idea if you forgot about everything else for a minute and let me hold you . ’ |
| 11 | Lend us the tape a minute and let me listen . |
| 12 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 13 | ‘ What you put into the business , ’ Daisy said , ‘ you should have treated it as a loan and let me pay you back the capital . |
| 14 | When I asked to speak for a moment with Miss Lavenza , a manservant showed me into a living-room and asked me to wait . |
| 15 | All my life I have seen that type of person , handsome and self-assured , who knew he could have me just by crooking a finger and beckoning me to follow . |
| 16 | Redundancy and a wrecked career as a forgotten man seemed inevitable until right out of the blue Graham Taylor threw me a lifeline and persuaded me to join him at Aston Villa . |
| 17 | Just do me a favour and let me go ! ’ |
| 18 | He hands me a billy and suggests I get some snow for water and a few twigs to start the fire . |
| 19 | ‘ But actually , being in that situation really helped to develop my ear , because a guy would come for a lesson and ask me to show him a lick from some song or other , which kind of put me on the spot ! |
| 20 | As I handed my music to the organist , I shook so badly he bought me a brandy and made me drink it . |
| 21 | John 's face seemed to come alive and his spirit escaped the prison of the photograph releasing brief images of happy times ; John dancing along the pavement , John tilting his head back to exhale smoke from a cigarette , John talking to a cuddly toy in a supermarket and making me laugh . |
| 22 | Cos he 'd got an exhaust and want me to put do you know where |
| 23 | They knew Van needed an agent and suggested I speak to him . |
| 24 | ‘ I jumped out of an aeroplane and discovered I 'd forgotten my parachute . |