Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below , Western Avenue ran from the Hollywood Hills in the north for miles south towards the port at San Pedro , one of many frontiers that let gangs know which turf was theirs and separated one class from another , black from Latino , Latino from Asian , white from the rest , us from them . |
| 2 | Could you advise me and recommend any books that might help me . |
| 3 | One elderly Palestinian in Beirut wanted to draw a map of his olive grove for me and spent ten minutes sketching and re-sketching the roads south of Jaffa . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you want to come back to Florence with me and get some sleep ? ’ |
| 6 | He looked across at me and whispered one word : ‘ Rum ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ She recognised me and had some idea I wanted to do a story about her on York station . |
| 8 | ‘ I was pleased that Lawrie McMenemy watched me and said good things about me , that 's another boost . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But the point is all the old grudges churn round in her mind , and she looks at me and fancies all sorts of things . |
| 12 | Vincent came to see me and stayed all day . |
| 13 | He squinted at me and lit another cigar . |
| 14 | It 's an interesting story to me and raises personal issues as well . |
| 15 | Tell you the truth , I 'm sick to death of the lot of it , but I ca n't think of anything to do with it that wo n't have my old man haunting me and have other people 's feelings hurt . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Well , there 's never been a man to stand against me and see another day ! ’ |
| 18 | How different they were ( we who worked in primary schools thought ) from the secondary schools described in the Newsom Report of 1963 in which ‘ children sat through lessons with information and exhortation washing over them and leaving little deposit ’ . |
| 19 | The next development was of those which required a larger number of people to build them and became corporate activities and into which the community cattle and goods could be taken and defended . |
| 20 | The next development was of those which required a larger number of people to build them and became corporate activities and into which the community cattle and goods could be taken and defended . |
| 21 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 22 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 23 | An interruption came from one of the schoolboys who had walked up behind them and had some question he wanted to ask Matthew . |
| 24 | ‘ However , these animals are here and we must look after them and make full use of them to bring the attention of people in Northern Ireland to the plight of thousands of other , much less fortunate , chimpanzees . ’ |
| 25 | Those MPs who succumbed to the pressures of Party democracy brought their golf clubs with them and spent long days on the sandy links of Southport and elsewhere , returning to their hotels in the evening to take part in an entertainment such as the Agents ' dinner and dance . |
| 26 | Calvert favoured large investors who would bring indentured servants with them and granted large manors to these planters . |
| 27 | When I opened one of them and saw English words I could feel the tears pricking at the back of my eyes . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | It was on a programme the other night saying the advice bureau are on the er companies cos some bloke , they were employing him to do something and he sued them and got two grand out of them . |