Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could you advise me and recommend any books that might help me . |
| 2 | ‘ It has been lowered over my head many times , and then , as I have reached up to smite it , it has passed before me and consumed many people . |
| 3 | ‘ Do you want to come back to Florence with me and get some sleep ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ She recognised me and had some idea I wanted to do a story about her on York station . |
| 5 | On the thirtieth of September er , a good friend of mine called me and said these people are interested in what you do , give them a call . |
| 6 | It 's not long before he 's trying to explain the telepathic communities that will flourish after the apocalypse to me and offering this example : ‘ It 's like when you fancy someone , and you know you 're going to go with that person . |
| 7 | But the point is all the old grudges churn round in her mind , and she looks at me and fancies all sorts of things . |
| 8 | Vincent came to see me and stayed all day . |
| 9 | He squinted at me and lit another cigar . |
| 10 | ‘ After I went to immigration ’ , recalls Rita , ‘ and I told them I was separated because my husband abused me , I thought they would look down on me and have more sympathy , and see what they can do . |
| 11 | Well , there 's never been a man to stand against me and see another day ! ’ |
| 12 | An interruption came from one of the schoolboys who had walked up behind them and had some question he wanted to ask Matthew . |
| 13 | If this sort of technology was introduced into commercial-sized refrigeration plants , they could be turned off during peak times and then switched back on during low demand periods , saving money for the companies that own them and using less energy . |
| 14 | well look at some of the apples you were getting round about Christmas , they had brought them in , they had polished them and put that spray on to make them look shiny |
| 15 | In its most heroic and grandiose form , it proposed no less than this : that working people should take over the industries which employed them and organise those industries into nationwide co-operatives , the whole to be in the charge of one , all-inclusive trade union . |
| 16 | The key to success is to be able to recognize the different behaviours in yourself , to control them and to use this knowledge to develop your relationships . |
| 17 | It seems to me , if a literary critic may be allowed a comment on these linguistic matters , that the function of the first- and second-person pronouns is rather to relate two people , to set up a plane of relationship which includes them and excludes all others . |
| 18 | They would tend to withdraw from their surroundings , showing little interest in those around them and making few demands upon them . |
| 19 | Now a lot of people when that was first mentioned said ‘ I do n't need that , it 's all right you can look at them if you want to ’ , but afterwards , half-way through their course , they wanted to know that they were theirs and other people would n't see them and have this reassurance that if they wanted to watch it and then wipe it blank , or if they wanted to wipe it blank without ever having seen it themselves , they could do that and no-one was going to ask ‘ What 's going on ? ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I carried on dealing in Sevens , servicing them , repairing them and did some racing until the economy picked up again in 1965 . ’ |
| 21 | She had been tempted to banish them and forbid all visits , but they would n't be intimidated . |
| 22 | For larger tours , bands need a tour accountant to travel with them and record all transactions as they are made . |
| 23 | Arrange the shells on an oiled baking tray , season them and brush each shell lightly with a little oil — use no more than 1 tablespoon in all . |
| 24 | He told enough boring stories about them and ended each office day with : ‘ I must go or my children will be afraid I 've got lost . ’ |
| 25 | All I had to do was to train chicks on either methylanthranilate or water and hand them over to Roger , who would disappear into the neurophysiology lab with them and emerge many hours later with reams of paper which he would begin to analyse . |
| 26 | The rational man may contemplate them and give more weight to the former , and more still perhaps to ‘ Art should be a part of ordinary life ’ , but these are not the sort of principles which he will profess to have interrelated in a deductive system . |
| 27 | Also , you may find that in taking this concrete approach , you are making your nouns work harder for you and using fewer adjectives . |
| 28 | ‘ And I only wish that I was family and so could be of help to you and had some rights to see you . |
| 29 | It is perfectly in order to pause before answering a question so that you can be totally sure you have understood what has been said to you and to give some thought to your answer . |
| 30 | So th th th there 's , there 's a heightened need for support because of the the nature of the civil war now , and , and they are under quite substantial pressure and therefore you need to mobilize the population behind you and to get that mobilization you , you 've got to offer more struggle fruits to the peasants and absolute egalitarianism is the way to offer them the maximum . |