Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] me [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Now he says he wants to come and see me working . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ They both love sport and have no time for show business — except sometimes they like to come and hear me sing . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Once , whilst in Venice , the Inquisition caught me , tried and condemned me to burn in the great piazza before St Mark 's . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , you see , miss , Mr Fennell wanted some shopping done and told me to leave him there , out of the wind . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Roberto had written and asked me to carry for him in that year 's Open . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | He came and helped me lay it all in which was very nice . |
| 16 | How can he have the nerve to stand there calm and composed and expect me to behave in the same way ? she thought angrily . |
| 17 | They always do that , the saucy wenches , they like to tease and make me beg for them to come back . |
| 18 | Just relax and let me love you . |
| 19 | He rose to go and told me to take care . |
| 20 | And I , er and I pretended to be incapable and I , and said I would like someone to go and help me do shopping , home health service would have , come along . |
| 21 | Although how we were supposed to be able to afford to rebuild , I had no idea , but whenever I queried anything he would just laugh and tell me to leave it all to him . ’ |
| 22 | When I 'm not happy every day , about the things I said today , she caught me being rude today , but I know , she 'll tell stories to make me laugh , she makes me laugh , makes me laugh , she 'll tell stories to make me laugh and to make me feel this bad , I love my mum , she 's the best mum in the world |
| 23 | My mum remembers long ago , when she makes snow men in the snow , and pulled a face at Mrs Jones , but I 'll know she 'll tell stories to make me laugh , make me laugh , make me laugh , she 'll tell stories to make me laugh and to make me feel this bad , I love my mum , she 's the best mum in the world |
| 24 | In the seat in front two passengers recognized the farm where they lived and wanted me to see it too . |
| 25 | Now I have been digressing and let me say quite clearly that I never knew the answer and I do not know it now , how the tremendously high level of morale was sustained , not just in the Pathfinders , but throughout the Command as a whole . |
| 26 | There were many heads like that in Spain , and I would follow outstanding examples gazing in admiration at that nape , that neck , that flat-backed skull , until the head turned and let me glimpse the face , which was never disappointing . |
| 27 | He turned and saw me smile . |
| 28 | An old woman opened the door — she seemed to be expecting him — and as he went in he turned and instructed me to wait . |
| 29 | My comrade who had talked and named me had been tortured very badly . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ He got a bit upset when the bowels did n't work and let me know it , ’ he recalls . |