Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb base] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , cut off my legs and call me Shorty , it 's you guvnor . ’ |
| 2 | My own child looked through me with her wide , hazel , dark-fringed eyes and cut me dead . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're supposed to roll your eyes and assure me that I just had the low-cal , spun-out-of-air version of — whatever all that incredible stuff was . ’ |
| 4 | I should go to the shops and get me some , get myself some actually . |
| 5 | He used to swing me up onto his shoulders and carry me round … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Just take these other duties off my shoulders and give me a day a week for the next year to attend a decent training course so that I can master it , and I 'm yours . ’ |
| 7 | [ My father ] used to talk to me of books and take me to lectures . |
| 8 | Go find the books and show me . |
| 9 | Let me tell you , when those dubbin-lickers at Whaddon go on their knees and beg me to bring my United first team squad to ‘ The Tip ’ to put a few quid in their ailing coffers , I shall take great delight in treading on Ken Mentle 's fingers , provided he survives last week 's heart attack , and raising two toes in a defiant ‘ get lost ’ gesture . |
| 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 | He rattled a huge ring of keys and let me out of the cell . |
| 12 | They trust me with bunches of keys and let me phone my sister . |
| 13 | It urged skins to ‘ I want all you skinheads to get up on your feet , put your braces together and your boots on your feet and give me some of that oooold moooonstompin ! ’ but it was a crude attempt to satisfy the skinhead market . |
| 14 | ‘ The practical skills and experience I have gained do not appear to differ widely from those gained by my friends in private practice . |
| 15 | Take five minutes and tell me what it is you want me to do for Lynx . |
| 16 | Get on the phone and phone up Currys and say I 've got this model freezer |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps you could give me one of these coins and send me away with a beating ? |
| 18 | ‘ Basically they are simple — you obey my wishes and prevent me being too overworked — ’ |
| 19 | Erm the bonus element of the Pearson scheme is highly leveraged we are very keen to achieve above-average performance for our shareholders and let me give you an example , if in nineteen ninety erm Pearsons as a company achieved say five percent growth in earnings per share erm the directors ' remuneration , and by the way that 's not a forecast so I want to make that absolutely clear , it 's just an illustration if earnings per share increase by five percent and you could say , er , therefore we would expect directors ' remuneration to be perhaps increased by five percent that would n't be the case at all our directors ' salaries would actually halve erm , Ill say that again , directors ' total take home pay would halve because the salary element would n't , would n't alter . |
| 20 | Well , it would be kinda fun to suck your fingers and take me a mouth-walk on the planet of your palms … |
| 21 | There is no genie to snap its fingers and whiplash me out of this world I am living in . |
| 22 | ‘ I will be holding surgeries at Netherton Park Community Centre so people can air their views and tell me if there is a problem , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm afraid I have to grit my teeth and say I 'm closer to Gyles and Jeffrey . ’ |
| 24 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |
| 25 | Eventually , he arrived at her side and , exasperated , flung his clubs down the bank and exclaimed crossly : ‘ Here , lady , for God 's sake , let's do a swap ; you have these damned clubs and let me have your fishing rod . |
| 26 | They feel like an extension of my arm , with a sweet action down their 10 ft length which is supple enough to cast free-lined baits and give me a feel of a fighting fish , yet with power to spare when I have to bend it into the run of a big carp . |
| 27 | Mala chose to go first , saying that she would check out the landing area for dangerous watchers and warn me if necessary when she sent the pod back up . |
| 28 | So I wrote " your " slippers , she 'll read " your " slippers and send me mine " . |
| 29 | The thing here was that all the flowers were blue — delphiniums and cornflowers and forget me nots round a sundial in the middle of a smooth green velvet lawn . |
| 30 | ‘ The fear that I could be had begun to haunt my days and keep me awake at nights , and , although I knew Simon was the wrong person to take into my confidence , he was familiar and he was there . |