Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two dangers with cliches such as ‘ May all their troubles be little ones ’ are that older members of the audience have heard them before and that the previous speaker may use the same joke or saying . |
| 2 | And then she goes mad she says I do n't want them to and I said look Nance if they did n't want to do it they and I said do n't forget what you 've done for them . |
| 3 | I 've been on to this morning , asked me to and they have got thirty palettes there at the moment . |
| 4 | It would also save time if she did n't have to carry them to and fro . |
| 5 | But I 'd eluded them before and I could again , I told myself , almost jauntily , as I ambled into the bar that I decided to make my last stop for the night . |
| 6 | Joseph 's special robe ( 3 ) : Joseph 's brothers saw this as a sign that Isaac intended to pass them by and make Joseph his heir ( see 48:21–22 and 49:22ff . ) . |
| 7 | John , two years ago we invited you to and introduced you to the Chamber of Commons , among other places , as a modern trade union leader . |
| 8 | I want you to and I do n't want you to . |
| 9 | At the moment she is going along with their wishes , wearing what they want her to and keeping her hair shoulder-length , but she feels extremely frustrated and isolated , and ca n't wait to leave home . |
| 10 | Well that 's , what I do is I use that metal that you can hang it with and just hang it onto a little hook so it 's up and over and out of the way . |
| 11 | Where there was a stout tower , they would prefer to pass it by and take what came easily ; and most of those Northumbrian herds and farmers would survive . |
| 12 | He 'd thought he did love her , until she went on worrying at it , thrashing it to and fro , churning up feelings like a dog digging up a bone . |
| 13 | fold bandage and if you want , pack it away like that , you bring the end in the centre , there , so and again the ends in to the centre , just so that they meet like this , like this the centre , just so that they meet there , again , start like this , ends just to meet in the centre do n't overlap them too much and again bend into the centre and you 've got a nice little pad , if you ever need a pad for plonking on a wound quickly , there you 've got a pad , or putting against an ear or anything you want it for and you open it up quickly and you 've got a bandage , two of those and you 've got a |
| 14 | Some unexpected expense always seems to crop up when you least want it to and throws your careful calculations out of the window . |
| 15 | I can quote you three particular instances where farmers have rung in with good information only to be told at the other end of the phone what the bloody hell have you rung us for and they 've got nothing within the local police whatsoever . |
| 16 | To celebrate the occasion , they were given an emotional send off by the bus drivers who 've spent the last three years transporting them to and from home . |
| 17 | It did n't get any better and somebody told me about and I took her down there , oh Mrs she 's picked up mange , I said mange , I know she said you feel just like when your child 's got nits in their hair |
| 18 | I had never seen them before and they obviously came from some very rural place in the Apennines . |
| 19 | Gina turned on her aunt in irritation : ‘ I tell you I 've never seen them before and I 've no idea where they came from . ’ |
| 20 | when I told her about and she come running back to me on phone the other week Glenys , Glenys , she said will you tell people if they spend twenty five pound at Tescos , I thought well that wo n't be me , or is it thirty , you get a thing and to take it to school to put towards computers |
| 21 | and , and put it to and put it into a deposit , you know this , this building I want , at the back , there 's , there 's nothing there , pardon ? |
| 22 | So you had to know that in order to , to pour concrete you had to have something to pour it into and you had to put the erm you had to have er reinforcements as well . |
| 23 | He held a copy of Milton 's works in his hands , but whenever he quoted from the poet he held the book aloft , like the Gospel at High Mass , sometimes going so far as to wave it to and fro behind his head as he chanted out the words . |
| 24 | Can we bring ours up and 'ave it with you ? ’ |
| 25 | Which which Mrs Thatcher rightly committed us to and rightly whipped us through the house And and it and it |
| 26 | We should actually be pushing saying for those Health Ser Service erm workers and also people in the public who are not doing that , not a case of , we do n't want you to and this is a case against it , although that 's strong . |
| 27 | I had already employed an attendant , Toril , who had come over from Norway at the end of July to help me during and after my move . |
| 28 | And er I erm I organised a lot of that sort of thing erm by er it was exact measurements and spindles and you know like Erm yes , I could n't remember a lot now but er a lot of people , if I might say so , used me you know , Michael , my knowledge and skill and I allowed them to and I 'm not complaining . |
| 29 | He had used them before and they knew what to do . |
| 30 | I remember standing in the dinner queue and all these kids coming up to me , asking me if it was true , where I had got her from and what I was doing with her . |