Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst I was in Holloway , my probation officer sorted out something to try and stop me getting a prison sentence . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't think it would be very wise of you to try and get me sent back to London . ’ |
| 3 | But Elsie Birdsall and Lavinia Thwaites kept coming in with all kinds of things to try and get me going — home-made soups , arrowroot , custards — and finally I began to mend a little . |
| 4 | So this was quite a mission which I believe has not been adequately covered in the history and was a forerunner of things to come and like I say we got through that mission without any damage , our gunners got to shoot at the first German fighters and we were an experienced crew with one mission under our belt . |
| 5 | Towards the end he could no longer fend for himself and good neighbours used to come and help me get him up out of bed and into a chair . |
| 6 | Now he says he wants to come and see me working . |
| 7 | ‘ I want people to come and see me playing Billy , not Adrian Boswell , in the same way as they went to watch Michael Crawford , not Frank Spencer . ’ |
| 8 | Jan erm I 've just recently started a job as a drama teacher and I must say there is n't actually anything in the programme that 's actually on my A level syllabus for drama and I think it might be something er it a help to schools if maybe there was a play put on specifically schools to come and see I think to comment on . . |
| 9 | ‘ They both love sport and have no time for show business — except sometimes they like to come and hear me sing . |
| 10 | Well that happened and er I was man and er they er brought me all the odd jobs that was going about and they used to go down the warehouse and er there was a fellow there , well a woman more than anything , know 'd where every thing was and in no time at all they showed me where the things were and er I er , young , it was in my memory , and in no time at all the men in the shop used to come and ask me to get them something from out the warehouse for this and that and the other . |
| 11 | Ee I said I think I 'm going to write and say I do n't know what you 're |
| 12 | Your cousin warned me off again , we had a little set-to in the pub , so I thought I 'd better come and make me mark . ’ |
| 13 | Once , whilst in Venice , the Inquisition caught me , tried and condemned me to burn in the great piazza before St Mark 's . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , you see , miss , Mr Fennell wanted some shopping done and told me to leave him there , out of the wind . |
| 15 | But the whole lot was done and opened I think it was er in August , eighteen forty six . |
| 16 | I chose a man who massaged my bruised ego , made up for much of the emotional neglect I 'd suffered and made me laugh a lot . |
| 17 | I freeze and think I 've blown it . |
| 18 | Roberto had written and asked me to carry for him in that year 's Open . |
| 19 | ‘ The warder came and told me to dress and led me to an officer of the court , ’ the small , self-effacing lawyer recalled in an interview on Saturday . |
| 20 | He came and helped me lay it all in which was very nice . |
| 21 | How can he have the nerve to stand there calm and composed and expect me to behave in the same way ? she thought angrily . |
| 22 | I used to listen and wish I 'd got something to offer . |
| 23 | I leave at 7.30am and by 8am have checked Skipper over and given him a small handful of feed in his manger ( which seems to keep him happy when other horses are fed and means I do n't have to wait an hour for him to digest a full feed ) . |
| 24 | I had heard all three works on this new BIS issue and thought I knew my feelings about them . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They always do that , the saucy wenches , they like to tease and make me beg for them to come back . |
| 27 | The final text has ‘ When all 's said and done I 've got the habits of a decent man ’ . |
| 28 | As far as Brian Deane goes … wait and see I suppose ! ! |
| 29 | Just relax and let me love you . |
| 30 | He rose to go and told me to take care . |