Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took her plump hand in his and repressed a shudder . |
| 2 | Roy , who was about four and had n't been used to drinking out of a glass , took a bite at his and broke a chunk out of it . |
| 3 | Her eyes shot to his and encountered a fire that held her mesmerised and sent a shiver down her spine . |
| 4 | Through the raindrops which were snail-trailing across my visor as I accelerated , I could see a marshal on the start/finish line flapping his yellow flag at me and screwing a finger at his temple . |
| 5 | he came to me and got a . |
| 6 | Finally , he turned to me and asked a question , repeating it twice , in the same jumble of words and sounds which I could n't understand . |
| 7 | A powerful electric current would pass through me and launch a surge of excitement : something wonderful awaited me . |
| 8 | You shall come with me and write a model report . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps more annoying is the number of student gigs that end with people coming up to me and sharing a few queer-bashing jokes . |
| 10 | On the way out a visiting French person saw me and poked a finger at the shirt . |
| 11 | Suddenly a young man wearing a full-face motorcycle helmet rushed up behind me and stuck a revolver in the security guard 's face . |
| 12 | But I mean my cleaner used to come in and just sort of like clean around me and chat a bit . |
| 13 | Would you guys like to look at me and ask a answer a question . |
| 14 | He flung it back , missed me and knocked a motto off the wall . |
| 15 | It all started when a man called Frank Somers wrote to me and enclosed a photograph of himself and his wife Pauline and their little girl called Hayley . |
| 16 | You 'll oblige me and fetch a priest here who can do the marrying , and a skinful of wine for everyone and food for a month or more , since we 're settling . |
| 17 | In any event he did a very professional job with me and took a great weight off Laura 's shoulders . |
| 18 | There 's work to be done in the world — so much to be found out — ’ He checked himself abruptly , lifted his glass at me and took a sip from it . |
| 19 | Why is n't there somebody there to bag them for me and create a service ? |
| 20 | I stole a quick sidelong glance , and saw him turn his head at the same instant to look at me and give a faint smile . |
| 21 | I feel around me and find a branch to sit on . |
| 22 | In fact I 'll even be super-optimistic for me and predict a clean sheet with Quinn 's injury . |
| 23 | 12 She shifts her body and flips her wings to keep balance , then looks at me and makes a new sound , like peeEP ; very sharp . |
| 24 | I remember dad running after me and having a long conversation trying to make me understand . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ At the moment she enjoys flying around the world after me and having a child would make that more difficult . |
| 26 | So stay with me and have a go . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're welcome to walk back home with Will and me and have a cup of tea for your trouble . ’ |
| 28 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 29 | And then she will take a few days off from seeing anybody except me and do a bit of work . |
| 30 | ‘ This man is of no more use to the world than those artists who came to fawn on me and scrape a little importance for themselves . |