Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] and [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | People come here looking for a Rottweiler as a guard dog — I tell them to go and buy a burglar alarm . |
| 2 | They came with nothing to lose and played a very relaxed game . |
| 3 | She bade them sit and brought a tray of wine , cups , and a bowl of sugared wafers . |
| 4 | She wanted me to go and have a look at it with that still in there . |
| 5 | This young man later persuaded me to arrange and present a series of music appreciation talks every Monday evening for the Baptist Young People 's Group of which he was president . |
| 6 | Mandy was sitting at a table with other staff , all of them laughing and having a wonderful time . |
| 7 | I hope they do n't ask me to come and do a benefit concert up there . |
| 8 | I just went from person to person and asked if they needed help when a policeman asked me to come and take a look at Johnathan . |
| 9 | worried about them being so far as they 've the only child , and talked them into come down and live with us , so then I applied and got a move to just after it was built , which was a four bedroom house . |
| 10 | If I lived there I mean and bought a house . |
| 11 | I knelt and wiped a diamond pane with my sleeve . |
| 12 | Because from the age of seventeen to twenty nine I worked on building sites , and that got boring so I changed and I changed and became a policeman , and I ca became a policeman when I was twenty nine and a half and it 's , I 've enjoyed it ever since cos every day is interesting , every day is different , every day is unusual . |
| 13 | I caught and examined a good sample of these . |
| 14 | I hooked and lost a fish at 12.30p.m. and that was the only fish to feel steel . |
| 15 | When I approached and held a piece of chicken out to him he opened his eyes in surprise and at first refused to take it . |
| 16 | ‘ Now I 'll go back and tell that silly little receptionist what a silly little toad he is too and if he does n't turn over the keys to the apartment that I booked and paid a deposit on I 'll scream all the way to his boss . ’ |
| 17 | When I get to the end I stop and have a look round . |
| 18 | I intervened and made a suggestion . |
| 19 | Someone filled and lit a chillim and everyone gathered round to smoke it , exchanging , now and then , laconic comments about the boar 's escape , musing about what had happened and how different everything could have been if only luck was with them . |
| 20 | I turned and saw a sad-eyed middle-aged man sitting on a bench staring at me . |
| 21 | I turned and saw a long blue column approaching with a corporal in charge . |
| 22 | I turned and saw a woman near me on the path . |
| 23 | I 've only been in the industry , I 've only been with this company for two and half years , and when I joined and had a look at what the industry was about , there were thirty express overnight carriers . |
| 24 | I 'll sit on a rock I know and write a poem . |
| 25 | Intriguingly last year Meadows was contracted to bring out a works manual on BS5750 , the British Standard for consistent total quality care : ‘ I had to read up all I know and produce a manual from that in six months . ’ |
| 26 | Or that I killed and mutilated a half-mad witch ? ’ |
| 27 | The slot for the fielded panel at the bottom of the curved members , needed a template which rested on the wood at each end of the slot to which I glued and screwed a 50 x 50 batten , the slot being routered to the correct depth in the middle and slightly oversize at each end . |
| 28 | Southall waits for me now when I arrive and make a fuss of me — I can even hug Kizzy . |
| 29 | Mum can I try and make a different . |
| 30 | Shall I try and get a cab ? ’ |