Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She twisted herself sideways in frenzy , screaming still and trying to wrench her wrists free and then he moved both her hands to one of his and gave her a light stinging slap across her cheek . |
| 2 | Alan 's ideas were so good that the Creative Director could n't believe they were his and set him a difficult test which had to be carried out in the agency . |
| 3 | ‘ He rang me and offered me a door for £250 . |
| 4 | God is able to take the common in you and me and make it a sacrament of blessing for others . |
| 5 | Finally , J. got tired of my everlasting complaints , took pity on me and made me a small electric fire . |
| 6 | And I remember running into the ward where I had been treated , finding one of the nurses who had looked after me and giving her a big hug and her crying . |
| 7 | Simon had swivelled back to me and handed me a piece of paper with an address in Theobalds Road . |
| 8 | ‘ Come home with me and give us a concert , ’ said Jarvis . |
| 9 | I began to feel something sharp coming through the roof of my mouth and went to Mr Grover , who X-rayed me and showed me a pretty picture of that fateful root still there despite the hammer and chisel . |
| 10 | ‘ In that case , perhaps you 'd better just pay off your debt to me and find yourself a job as a salesgirl in some shop . |
| 11 | He opened up more the love of God to me and gave me a livelier apprehension of the Mystery of Redemption and how much I am beholden to Jesus Christ ’ . |
| 12 | Zak flashed a glance at the crew , saw me and gave me a thumbs-up sign . |
| 13 | What he did was relatively harmless , yet somewhere deep down it damaged me and gave me a streak of recklessness that is still having consequences even today . |
| 14 | She raised an eyebrow at me and gave me a wry smile . |
| 15 | Bunny saw me and gave me a brief nod , then went back to talking to a young black dude wearing a blue trenchcoat and nursing a colour-co-ordinated Filofax . |
| 16 | One of them hailed me and gave me a fiver to take them to a private clinic in Harley Street . |
| 17 | would it be possible for me to pay my half of that and the s pay the other half because I 'm not i it it 's really started to worry me and concern me a lot |
| 18 | People began to ignore me and call me a ‘ snob ’ behind my back — I admit I was now , I did not understand why . |
| 19 | Sometimes he was angry with me and called me a ‘ hard little thing ’ or ‘ a cruel spirit ’ , but I preferred that to being called ‘ my darling ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Would n't it be more sensible to sell your share to me and buy yourself a smaller place ? ’ |
| 21 | Whereas here , you 're still very busy , but er you have the membership just on your doorstep and you can get to meet them and know them a lot closer than you would when you 're having er a large volume of people filing through your doors in the city centre . |
| 22 | You ring them and tell them a tune to them . |
| 23 | Out players were apoplectic and our secretary , a local bank manager , talked of suing for libel ; but the Captain threw back his head with two guffaws and said of course we 'd play them and show them a thing or two . |
| 24 | Instead , hoping to expedite matters , he squatted down beside them and gave them a hand . |
| 25 | The butis would no doubt bless them and see them a part of the divine process . |
| 26 | A new deep house night opens its doors on Aug 28 at The Podium , but Work has a twist — members can enter their names on a database so that any fellow worker looking for a singer , dancer , or whoever can access them and offer them a job . |
| 27 | Privately Captain Simcox hoped the IRA would be a match for the Tans — well , perhaps that was expecting too much — but it would be something if they could put some manners on them and give them a bloody nose now and again . |
| 28 | They used take them and give them a drink . |
| 29 | What I am saying most specifically is take all of me — and here of course Gary began the melody on the piano and we all smiled and then she sang , sang her song , and believe me we did all listen to the words that night , we knew that the man who had been attacked was there , and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst , we saw them in the centre of the mirror , saw ourselves standing beside them and standing by them and give me a drink now because I had such hopes of a lover of my own on that evening and here I am . |
| 30 | The classical thing is if somebody comes up to you and asks what a physicist does , that 's the hardest question to answer . |