Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [det] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He came to see me several times and even brought Gordon [ Jackson ] along too . |
| 2 | Let down , their elation leaking away , they had decided to give up , and taken a taxi back to Alice 's mother 's house , where Alice made them both coffee and scrambled eggs . |
| 3 | Donna took a hurried bath , Julie made them some tea and , as the hands on the clock above the open fireplace crawled round to 3.56 , they both sat down , one on either side of the table in the centre of the room . |
| 4 | So watch them for a while and then he started dancing with them and he dance them all night and he just get in his hand . |
| 5 | Run home at once , and bring me some gloves and a fan . |
| 6 | So Parsons got me this job and I used to sit up there and answer the phones . ’ |
| 7 | There was a pile of really filthy-looking blankets on the bed , they got me some sheets and a towel , and I managed to get an extra pillow because of my asthma . |
| 8 | If we go back to the private 's utterance ‘ I 've been scrubbing them all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner ’ , we can relate it to these three layers as follows : |
| 9 | ‘ Richard has also given me many opportunities and without him and Peter my life as a freelance jockey would be made just that little bit more difficult . ’ |
| 10 | Unwelcomed , unwanted , despised and dug out , they had added a new dimension to my life , given me another self and I wanted never to go from Claro . |
| 11 | No I could n't I mean , and these people are Jehovah Witnesses who sold me this house and my feelings about the commercial probity of Jehovah Witnesses are that they have n't any commercial probity . |
| 12 | She was bringing them some papers and some photographs in a big brown envelope . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've given them this number and they 're going to test the line and call me back , ’ she said when Iris came in from the garden . |
| 14 | Anybody who want 's to take part , and ca n't get today 's Torygraph , send me another mail and we 'll work out the best way to get the stuff to you . |
| 15 | She 'll need me some day and then she 'll be quick enough to write to her mother . |
| 16 | I can honestly say I hardly do any work , even though I am involved in various projects that occupy me most weekdays and some evenings . |
| 17 | Please forgive me these things and the people I have wronged . ’ |
| 18 | I mean we could never have paid for all those tyres and when I retired the erm , they actually had a tyre fitter supplied and paid for by they were the , they took over the whole of the tyre maintenance , they had a tyre fitter down there and he used to go up to depot , change any tyres over there that were necessary , he inspected them each day and changed them over but of course he was notifying erm at the same time . |
| 19 | and I used them this year and they er I 've got quite a lot of Right furry I was er hoping to get I do n't think these 'll come out somehow . |
| 20 | Well if you have the footnote bible like I 've got here , you look down the bottom and speaks about those who are beggars , beggars for the spirit and just at the bottom of our road where we live er there 's a little area there which quite busy and er there 's a man who parades up and down there daily , he 's there nonstop every day of the week , you can go by there any time , any day and he 's there begging and he has no shame at all , and if you refuse him once he 'll catch you another day and he 'll ask you again , and you 'll see him there backwards and forwards and he 'll even when the traffic lights turn red |
| 21 | ‘ And send her some hand-cream and cigarettes . |
| 22 | He drew him another map and watched Blunset wander off into the darkness . |
| 23 | I had asked the plumber to come and had reminded him several times and no doubt he would come in the end . |
| 24 | She found him another job and is paying for a private nurse . |
| 25 | His mother phoned him several times and Jack had a disturbed night 's sleep . |
| 26 | I 'm gon na need it this week and or next Saturday cos I 'm in in the morning , and I 'm getting I think I 'm gon na get boots as well . |
| 27 | He hung there for a second before slithering sideways , and as he slipped towards the ground the seladang hooked blindly at his body , knocking it this way and that , until one of its long horns caught and held . |
| 28 | Basically the system is our cover note book control , er , we issue cover note books to agents and it 's up to us to make sure that they 're all issued in sequence , as their legal documents etc , and a minute a gap comes up we have to chase them etc , it 's run by erm , people quite low units and they scared of a job and tend to put it off as lose , and I want to visit and try and influence them so I can give them some help and to change it and bring it up to date , because it 's er . |
| 29 | Mum it 's pussy cat , pussy cat have some pie for , where mummy do n't give them some pie and pussy cat , pussy cat up in London , there 's two about pussy cats |
| 30 | Asik knew that his grandparents would die if he did not give them enough water and there was no water left in the pots , so he set off to the river . |