Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb past] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , whilst in Venice , the Inquisition caught me , tried and condemned me to burn in the great piazza before St Mark 's . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , you see , miss , Mr Fennell wanted some shopping done and told me to leave him there , out of the wind . |
| 3 | But the whole lot was done and opened I think it was er in August , eighteen forty six . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | He came and helped me lay it all in which was very nice . |
| 6 | I had heard all three works on this new BIS issue and thought I knew my feelings about them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He rose to go and told me to take care . |
| 9 | Then I started to make myself vomit and knew I had a problem . |
| 10 | In the seat in front two passengers recognized the farm where they lived and wanted me to see it too . |
| 11 | and sort of guarded and slept I do n't I do n't know how she slept because it must have been very uncomfortable . |
| 12 | ‘ Although , when I was going he did give me a sort of squeeze and said I 'd got the loveliest mouth he 'd ever seen . ’ |
| 13 | And drawn and quartered I think . |
| 14 | He turned and saw me smile . |
| 15 | An old woman opened the door — she seemed to be expecting him — and as he went in he turned and instructed me to wait . |
| 16 | The Gendarme nodded and told me to wait outside . |
| 17 | After a silence he 'd risen greyly to his feet to leave and told me to look after myself . |
| 18 | ‘ I was bleeding and realised I 'd been hit . ’ |
| 19 | So I lied and said I detected nothing untoward in finding a bullet-riddled boat awash in the Bahamian seas . |
| 20 | Or , rather , that was my excuse to myself when the letter first arrived and sent me sailing up on to Cloud Nine . |
| 21 | ‘ And the reason the boy wonder suddenly rang and invited me to watch him go through his paces was because he wanted to show off something rotten , ’ she teased , intent on bringing him back down to earth . |
| 22 | They thrashed around , kicked and screamed and begged me to help … but I could n't move . |
| 23 | So I went and left I got a job at which that was one of 's . |
| 24 | Mm , we went in that , we went and got me barm cakes and a bit , a few veg and that , went , oh I bought Li Joanne a little set of er instead of an Easter egg , it 's quite nice , I got it from that shop , you know erm next to Kingston and Hutch |
| 25 | She just went and said I 've got this you know , check up , cos she knew she was going to Christies for her final check up and , they 've whizzed her in . |
| 26 | That this intuition can be trained and sharpened I have not the slightest doubt , and I further believe that this is most likely to occur when one looks upon natural phenomena with reverence and humility . |
| 27 | She pleaded and begged me to change my mind , but I was adamant . |
| 28 | My father feared my mother as much as I did and wished me to please and agree with her always , for when I did not she would complain to him of my behaviour and I suspected that when this happened his new wife would complain in her turn that he paid too much attention to us and too little to her and her own children . |
| 29 | On the contrary , he looked at me admiringly , flourished his pen , wrote in the sum , turned the page , signed and asked me to do likewise on Jean-Claude 's account . |
| 30 | He had no answer , but in the meantime the manager appeared and asked me to come into the office . |