Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] i " in BNC.
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1 | I 'll just phone INCUBUS and say I 'm leaving them … |
2 | My father paid for my digs in Paddington and gave me a pound a week pocket money , together with what he called ‘ travelling expenses ’ for my regular visit home ( home and a good , square meal ) , and to spend some time with Clare who was fifteen and slowly , very slowly , improving . |
3 | But every year , and often more than once , he made the pilgrimage to Kidlington in Oxfordshire and on one of those visits ( I can not have been more than eight years old ) took me to Thame and showed me his name on the board as head boy . |
4 | ‘ You 're the fourteenth person who 's worked out I 'm staying with Lucy and phoned me up with crazy stories about Liam . |
5 | If you 've any sense you 'll give me a ride to Shipton and put me on a train , then go back to your farm and forget all about me . ’ |
6 | He brought up Jason alone after splitting from the boy 's mother Sue and said I 'm very proud I 'm very pro that sort of thing ohm |
7 | Zak came up to me with Donna and offered me a lift back to the city in their bus , and at that exact moment I saw not Bill Baudelaire himself but someone who might go among the owners , where Tommy could n't . |
8 | But in a few days she will leave England and follow me to Argentina . |
9 | Bruce took me to Millwall and offered me a contract , but I did n't fancy living in London . |
10 | And it 's perhaps up to the new civilian C P O to go to the likes of Mick and say I ca n't do this , I have not been trained to do it yet , until I have been trained to do it perhaps P C should continue using his skills . |
11 | Say you got me to Ireland and dropped me off , then got shot down by a British night-fighter off the French coast on your way back . |
12 | And he said he did n't know that , that he would get hold of Sen and ring me first thing , thing in the morning er , to tell me why Sen has n't paid . |
13 | Love Jim and hate me . |
14 | A middle-aged man picked me up on the M4 near Swindon and offered me a lift to London , which was very convenient . |
15 | No , it 's called a cork , cork , you feel it Victoria and tell me what do you think , you think that 's gon na sink or do you think it 's gon na float ? |
16 | Their president , Gordon Stulberg , became president of Twentieth Century-Fox and asked me to direct The Poseidon Adventure , which became the company 's most profitable film . |
17 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
18 | I was more than mildly impressed with Miss Semmens and decided I would certainly have to see her again — and soon . |
19 | ‘ My husband and I have recently returned from our holiday in Czechoslovakia and felt I must write to say how much we enjoyed it . |
20 | That evening I wrote again to Mrs Girdlestone and said I would come and see how things were with my aunt , and if possible arrange for something to be done . |
21 | I felt shy of talking about my feelings with Terry and Tom and wished I could have half an hour alone with Brian . |
22 | Because he did n't think his player was coming over , Orville Moody 's caddie had taken Tom Weiskopf 's bag , but when he suddenly heard Orville was flying over , he ditched Tom and suggested I take over the bag . |
23 | My brother holds our castle for Matilda and sent me here to serve her . |
24 | ‘ They 're divorced now , apparently , and Paul 's married to someone else , but at the time he was going to divorce Sonia and marry me . |
25 | ‘ He happened to be going to Bristol and drove me in . |
26 | And Merson revealed : ‘ The boss called me in on Monday and told me that it would be best if I played in the reserves on Tuesday rather than travel with the squad to Blackburn . |
27 | The boss went to Calgary and gave me the day off . ’ |
28 | She hit her and at the same time as she hit her she virtually came to a er , a stop because of the fact she wa she started to brake as soon as she saw the the children appear er , but ne never the less contact was made but thankfully for her and for the child the the contact was a a at no significant speed , the child was just knocked off her feet and she got up and waved to Mrs and said I 'm alright and she ran off and she was away before Mrs had time , even to undo her safety belt to get out of the car . |
29 | As for those defeats at the hands of Botham and Sidcombe I would rate both , in footballing terms , as nightmares . |
30 | Carel Weight visited Wimbledon and encouraged me to try for the Royal College . |