Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Well , Knut , I 'll put it simply , and bind you to keep this secret from my son .
2 Just walk down the road here to all them shops and just knock one of them off , bring the stuff back , stash it till the morning and then go and sell it to buy some gear
3 Mr Nash added that the whole basis of ASB chairman David Tweedie 's approach was to stop people looking at special figures and make them examine various factors .
4 This belief has lasted to the present day ; and , in revenge , we should round up all the people who made these awful hippy records and make them read old Charlatans interviews until they beg for mercy and we hurl them into a well filled with angry weasels .
5 Tendrils that invade your mind and make you think crazy thoughts ! ’
6 Allow 1.2m ( 4ft ) between the plants and expect them to reach full size in four years .
7 ‘ They seem pathetic , when you compare them to adult humans , and expect them to do human things — because obviously they ca n't .
8 say do it once and say we want six years , put equals equals equals
9 Marje says : ‘ I think I 'm not so different from my readers , who write and say they have brutal husbands , and how they are beaten night after night by drunken swine who abuse them in every way and yet they still go on living with them .
10 We got the Gilbey bar but I no the answer to that question would be if any company or org organisation was prepared or wished to talk about funding the theatre in any way and I think were 'd be more than welcome to sit down with and talk them and say well how would you perceive that which way would you like to go about it how can we assist that and I think we 're be open to suggestions from them how they see it I mean you know it could be seats it could be programmes it could be any any arrange of things that we 'd certainly welcome who approach us from companies but we I think we are pro-active in sense that we do n't wait for that to happen we actually go out but was said early I think given the recession it has been difficult lately to actually go out to companies and say I mean sure companies like the Harlow Council find it extremely finance the finances extremely difficult on them and with the recession it 's really difficult for them to actually find funding and I know lot 's of companies who actually cutting back on it certain areas I think funding of oth outside organisations will be one of the areas they 'll be cutting back on .
11 Put your foot down and say I want that car whe if you do n't , if you do n't do it now
12 If , if you buy a p a new pair of shoes and realize they 're faulty and you go back the next day and say I bought these shoes from you yesterday , I 've still got my receipt , I believe the shoes are faulty , can I have my money back ?
13 right , you go upstairs , pick up the most expensive article they 've got and then you go downstairs to the customer relations department and say I bought this article yesterday and say , and , and I 'm afraid
14 Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles .
15 Perhaps I ring up Irena and say you need more French ?
16 ‘ Cross your fingers and hope he has another order for me . ’
17 Finally , on the day that I 'd promised to ring the breeder back and let him know one way or the other , a miracle happened — one of those strokes of luck that seem to come along when you least expect them to .
18 Confused , she went after him down the winding stairs into the kitchen and let him organise hot drinks .
19 We should approach the white public school middle class networks in the business world and let them deliver some money .
20 Beat all these together with a whisk , till all appeareth converted into froth , and let them stand all night .
21 I says , they have a hotel there , so I brought them up to the hotel and took them , he went in and he made arrangements to stay there and then I took them over and let them see this lake dwell this crannagh as they call it .
22 Shut up , and let me watch this play . "
23 In the middle of our talk I began to speak as if to some demon , telling him to hold his tongue and not interrupt my talk , and let me serve these gentlemen for it was already late .
24 ‘ I think I am being very reasonable , and let me make one thing quite clear .
25 ‘ And this may be your villa , and your bed , but if you had the minutest atom of good manners or breeding you 'd get out of here right now and let me get some clothes on ! ’
26 And let me assist such reflections by reporting that a gifted and earnest English poet of thirty-two , whom I met this very summer , not only confessed that he had never read through Basil Bunting 's Briggflatts , but quite plainly saw no reason why he ever should .
27 In addition to that you get depreciation of one thousand one hundred and forty four pound per year which , by my reckoning is ninety five pound a month in addition to that , as a Methodist Minister you get a standing charge of five hundred and twenty eight pound per year which is forty four pound pe er , per month and then you also through i in the year if you have a major repair needed on your car you get a hundred and eight pound now , if in fact , I had , I have a Vauxhall Nova , and let me take these figures as you are at twenty four P a mile , or twenty four point five P a mile and if that 's all we are recommended , recommending , in other words , there 's no lump sum at all er , that would mean that I would be getting forty nine pound but Methodist , this colleague in Llandudno if he did
28 And let us help each other get this thing into perspective or it 's going to ruin our collaboration . ’
29 " Fill your Sillabub pot half full with sider , and good store of sugar , and a little nutmeg , stir it well together , and put in as much cream by two or three spoonfuls at a time , as hard as you can , as though you milk it in ; then stir it together very softly once about , and let it stand two hours before you eat it , for the standing makes it curd . "
30 This is an attempt to loosen up your mind and let it accept alternative ideas .
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