Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You will wed me and become Lord of the Wyrmberg . ’ |
| 2 | She made my bed for me and wound Little Ben as I hurtled into uniform . |
| 3 | As I got to the beach and began setting up my machine , several people came up to me and asked questions about my detector . |
| 4 | She shook her head , the dark hair glinting with moisture , her eyes turned to me and searching mine . |
| 5 | The hand started pushing through the window at the pile of books , and I knew it would find me and catch hold of me again . |
| 6 | He was n't remotely interested in me and brought Philippa some goat 's cheese that looked like Tutankhamun 's brain . |
| 7 | Yet despite the pain and dyspnoea , she would fuss over me and make tea for me with her best crockery . |
| 8 | And er they used to come to me and ask things about what they should do and did I think they had a claim for this and that you know , and I used to tell them you see . |
| 9 | Many years ago — back in the early '70s , I think — Burt Reynolds called up Warren Beatty and me and formed Marriage Anonymous on the theory that if any of the three of us got tempted to get married we 'd ring up the others and we 'd go round and make them drunk . |
| 10 | Because she [ the new maths teacher ] did n't know me , she did n't have any confidence in me … but because she did n't have any confidence in me , I did n't have any confidence in myself , and that is the thing that really makes me regret changing schools … at my first school all the teachers knew me and had confidence in me . |
| 11 | It was obvious that the Sherpas and monks were tremendously distressed and they turned to me and said Thyangboche must rise again . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ My weight was 14st 4lb , and Walter said that if I did not lose a stone while Rangers were at their pre-season training camp in Italy he would sell me and keep Chris . ’ |
| 13 | And there 's more — Number Ones galore , from falsetto king Jimmy Jones ' Good Timin' to Conway Twitty 's It 's Only Make Believe … hard-driving , hipswinging dance-hall blasters like Sandy Nelson 's Let There Be Drums and Little Eva 's The Locomotion … and the pick of songs honouring the softer side of rock … the Platters ' The Great Pretender , Sam Cooke 's You Send Me and Tab Hunter 's Young Love to name just three . |
| 14 | This section is personal to me and contains titles I want to recommend , but in October I am forced to put into it a book I absolutely detest . |
| 15 | Will you come back with me and give Jack Owen the benefit of your opinion ? ’ |
| 16 | Not to live in fascist Italy ( it was still all right for her to spend a month or two , with her British passport , with her mother and me and carry messages over the border for the underground ) . |
| 17 | Well because everybody keeps coming up to me and asking questions so I ca n't help it . |
| 18 | ‘ The others at school keep making fun of me and saying things . |
| 19 | He sat with me and watched Jo Spence 's documentary on her fight against a serious illness and he admired her for her spirit and for using her work to get through her situation . |
| 20 | I asked Jesus to help us , and to forgive Jack and me and to make Dad happy . |
| 21 | That 's all that matters , you and me and having babies . |
| 22 | I want him to want to be with me and do things . |
| 23 | But now I was ready to put his vulnerability behind me and consider things objectively . |
| 24 | ‘ Of course , ’ said Mortimer , as he turned to me and shook hands . |
| 25 | I was emotionally devastated , but I was not going back with the intention of finding a man to take care of me , to pay my bills , to embellish me and play papa as Helmut had . |
| 26 | Richards , who admitted United had been in touch with Francis , revealed : ‘ Alex Ferguson also telephoned me and suggested talks at chairman level might be useful . |
| 27 | Subject to these limitations , any partner will have implied authority to sell the goods of the firm , receive payments of the firm 's debts and give receipts for them and to engage employees for the firm 's business . |
| 28 | So weighty and at times contradictory are the findings and recommendations that David Lange has established another committee to sift through them and recommend government action in the reform of educational administration . |
| 29 | She waited for them and told Rodney , ‘ I booked a horse for tomorrow afternoon . ’ |
| 30 | When the Treaties of Rome creating the Common Market and Euratom had been signed in 1957 , de Gaulle had criticized them and told aides that , if he came back to power , he would " destroy " them . |