Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you imagine poor old Tony and me conspiring to deflect the course of justice ? … |
| 2 | And I dress to suit the kind of life I lead . |
| 3 | His sportsmanship and style of play is refreshing , and I hope to see a lot more of him in the near future . |
| 4 | There are volumes of evidence to substantiate what my hon. Friend has said , and I hope to give the House some examples . |
| 5 | What I would hope that we could achieve in this country is more through erm opportunities for disabled people , greater opportunities for disabled people to gain access into work and as my honourable friend knows , we have put forward some proposals we 're presently considering the position following the representations that have been made to us after the er new access to work scheme was announced and I hope to make an announcement on that aspect shortly . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ The mist 's nearly cleared and I like to see the stars . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But I can not accept mysteries and I like to find the reason behind them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's poor Archie , he canna dae a han 's turn for himsel' , and I 've to earn every bite o' bread he eats . ’ |
| 14 | And then , only six hours later , the pains returned and I had to repeat the dose . |
| 15 | Even then one colour ran out and I had to use a substitute on the back , which did n't really matter in the general pattern . |
| 16 | By the time I had gone through the narrow tunnel to pit the first film had already started and I had to use the reflection of the action on the faces of the audience to find a seat without too much of ‘ Here , Here ’ and ‘ Sit down nuh ! ’ . |
| 17 | I was co-ordinating operational activities in the Institute , an international project on commodities last year , and I had to visit a number of research institutes in Asia , erm in Africa and in the Americas , where they were conducting studies on the commodities they produced . |
| 18 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 19 | And I was cooking fish and chips when the siren went , and I had to turn the gas off and now they 're ruined , and I do n't know what else we 're going to have for supper … |
| 20 | ‘ Three of us carried you , and I was one of the three , and I had to tip a jug of water over you next morning to wake you . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ There were a lot of traumatic phone calls between the two of us and I had to do a lot of soul-searching . |
| 22 | Michael : It 's about sportsman and when he was seven he was a good football player and then when I was about ten or eleven I went swimming and then when I was about eleven I dived in without any — urn — with no water in the pool so I got eye-sighted and then , when I was about fourteen it was I played snooker and I had to do the strokes really good because I was eye-sighted . |
| 23 | What a mess there was to clean up , and I had to hit the cooking pot with my chopper to get Tony 's head out . |
| 24 | He eventually let go of me and I had to go the bottom of the baths and bring him to the surface , take him to the side and get him breathing again , and I was considered a failure for that . |
| 25 | And I had to ask a lad stood at front , I said can you ask him to stop at this stop please . |
| 26 | Then she flew on to a high window-sill and I had to ask the headmaster to bring me a ladder so that I could bring her down . |
| 27 | It was something like four or five days after I finished filming Total Recall with Arnold and I had to put every dime that I had into buying a house . |
| 28 | You — ’ His voice disappeared , and I had to put the phone away from my ear again as he started to hammer the handset against the walls of the call-box . |
| 29 | Well , and then I went on to Rome to look at a Goldoni production and I had to see the Pope , but I tell you — I hope you 're not Catholic — the sight of the old pullet being cheered up the aisle of St. Peter 's … |
| 30 | There were only two bedrooms and I had to share a bedroom with David 's mother , a living arrangement that I just was n't used to . |