Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [verb] i [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so when God comes to me and asks me to do something he 's already walked that path before me . |
| 2 | ‘ Much to my surprise and delight , sure enough in ‘ 84 he contacted me and asked me to take part in the Mozart ‘ Coronation ’ Mass to be performed in front of the Pope the following year . |
| 3 | He looked at me and asked me to take it . |
| 4 | At last he reached me and asked me to demonstrate el thwing . |
| 5 | I thought at the time she made nought of it , but back last summer , like you say , round August bank 'oliday , she came to see me and asked me to tell 'er everything I remembered 'bout the day of the explosion . |
| 6 | He said he 'd flown over urgently to see me and asked me to come to the Cheshire Cheese , that pub in Fleet Street , at ten o'clock that night . |
| 7 | When he joined Ingard and wanted a number two he thought of me and asked me to come in with him . |
| 8 | She phoned me and asked me to come straight over . |
| 9 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 10 | Type Report on Yugoslav Spitfires by Peter Arnold in the April issue ( p70 ) evoked many memories for me and caused me to rummage around for some half-forgotten photos of nearly half a century ago , and there it was , Mk VcJK808 ‘ B ’ with yours truly in attendance . |
| 11 | The soft , sweet sounds of the piano dropped round me , intoxicating me and compelling me to follow as I drifted towards the sound like a child of Hamelin . |
| 12 | He took my passport off me and told me to sit down on a bench sat against the wall ; I picked up a magazine and read it while he checked my details . |
| 13 | I wanted to sit there and ask him all about it , but he finished questioning me and told me to leave . |
| 14 | He showed this to me and told me to note especially the inscription on the coin 's obverse side : ‘ O.A. Paykhull cast this gold by chemical art at Stockholm , 1706 . ’ |
| 15 | Then he goes all quiet and throws some money at me and tells me to hurry up and ca n't wait to get the other boy out of the shop . |
| 16 | I remember her coming to see me and begging me to help when he was arrested . |
| 17 | Must now conclude trusting my dear that every blessing will attend you and trusting I may find you well when I return — kiss dear Fritz [ ? ] for me and believe me to remain Eliza |
| 18 | ‘ You heard how Bathsheba loves me and expects me to visit her tonight . |
| 19 | He said he loved me and wanted me to stay … ’ |
| 20 | He appeared to enjoy talking to me and invited me to call in whenever I was passing . |
| 21 | It was then that I knew I could have a fight on my hands : If the manager sided with him and asked me to move a few feet away then I 'd have no choice but to join in the squabble . |
| 22 | Infant teacher has it and asks me to make sure that the Head of Primary knows that one of the children had a fit on the bus this morning . |
| 23 | It was important to learn about , for example , bookselling from experienced booksellers who then , accepting the genuineness of my interest and the possible value of my research , were generous in helping me with it and allowing me to carry out surveys in bookshops . |
| 24 | Smith was a slow reader and took about an hour to read and ponder the document , after which he approved it and asked me to take it to Harold Wilson . |
| 25 | He could n't make it and asked me to come instead . ’ |
| 26 | In poetry such a transport is evoked by a pattern of words ( selected by the poet perhaps with the most intense thought and effort ) , which stabilizes it and allows me to evaluate it at leisure . |
| 27 | ‘ I was lucky that he was worried about who might see us and allowed me to get away . |