Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you imagine poor old Tony and me conspiring to deflect the course of justice ? … |
| 2 | To my brother and me had fallen the task of disentangling our parents ' possessions from the original contents of the house . |
| 3 | And I 'd written the postcard on boat er they gave us all postcards to send home . |
| 4 | And I 'd scraped the cooker |
| 5 | And I 'd left the gates open an oh it was Friday ! |
| 6 | I was out of the house faster than a rat up a drainpipe and I 'd slammed the door shut before Nigger banged into the back of it . |
| 7 | And I dress to suit the kind of life I lead . |
| 8 | There are volumes of evidence to substantiate what my hon. Friend has said , and I hope to give the House some examples . |
| 9 | Alistair Scott and John Shrewsbury were kind enough to give me the opportunity to work with the BBC and I hope to have the privilege again . |
| 10 | We were told to take food and water on a train going down to Mandalay and I remember taking the Mothers ' Union tea urn ! |
| 11 | ‘ The mist 's nearly cleared and I like to see the stars . ’ |
| 12 | The better the jam the better the rolypoly , and I like to gild the lily by lacing the dough with almonds and orange zest , too . |
| 13 | But I can not accept mysteries and I like to find the reason behind them . |
| 14 | natural and I 'm and I never was , but I like to know what I 'm voting for and I like to tell the people who I 'm responsible for what they are voting for . |
| 15 | That night over a pretentious dinner ( ‘ delicate strips of milk-fed veal on a bed of herbs and accompanied by a tangy aromatic sauce specially prepared by our chefs ’ ) in a pretentious modern hotel and fortified by a bottle of local plonk , my Producer John Reynolds and I resolved to telephone the Palace Chamberlain in the morning , say that owing to a technical fault the film was not usable , and did the king have a spare hour in which we might shoot the interview again ? |
| 16 | I understand that Wyre Borough are forwarding to you a copy of a recent letter to their Environmental Health Officer from Nether Wyresdale Parish Council and I write to reiterate the concern felt by the Parish Council about this site especially the environmental and health hazards involved . |
| 17 | Not only has Burlison never made any verbal contribution to the committee 's workings , there has to date ( and I 've attended the whole of every meeting ) never been a vote in the Plant Committee . |
| 18 | He says it 'd be devastating — we built the bungalow just 6 years ago and I 've built the farm up over the years and now it 's all going to go under water . |
| 19 | So it was , the prophecy was written then by Daniel for our , for our time and it just happened in our , because you know er , when he was er , when he finished the book write written and he said I have seen the , the , the erm visions and I 've heard the voice , but I , and I 've written down what I was told to do , but I do not understand and then the voice said to him well close that down , that book is not for you to understand , the generations that it 's written for , it 's written for the end of the times , they will come to understand it , and you see we actually witnessing what 's happening |
| 20 | now do I do n't suppose I 'm the only person that 's been in a pub toilet , a ladies toilet and I 've heard the females in the toilet saying what , exactly what they would like to do the males ! |
| 21 | Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights . |
| 22 | When we first started people used to say , Canine Defence League never heard of them , but since then people have come up to us and said , Oh I met you last year and I 've joined the League . |
| 23 | I mean people do n't always agree on what evidence means ; they do n't always agree on what is the best thing to do , erm and I 've developed the idea that it 's possible to do an evaluation that I like to call divergent in the sense that there might be several different things that one might do as a result of it . |
| 24 | " I 'm Dan Brady , and I 've served the Cause both here and at home since before you were born … so I 'd take that look off your face before I take it off for you . " |
| 25 | ‘ Look , you wanted me to stop the lorry and I 've stopped the lorry , ’ said Dorcas . |
| 26 | And I 've seen the look in your eyes recently when you 've been watching the singers on stage . |
| 27 | And I 've seen the corn harvest again , the the sheaves growing green out it stook . |
| 28 | But you 've seen the tramp and I 've seen the tramp , have n't we , Father ? |
| 29 | Sarah Burge was a Barnardo child , who was photographed in eighteen eighty three — in fact we 've just passed the centenary , I realize , of this occasion — at eight years old , and I 've seen the photograph and it was , of course , used for fund raising purposes , but I wrote a poem to this obviously long dead girl . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've faced the past and I 've seen the house and the studio . |