Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb base] i [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Dear mermaids , wo n't you please turn the wheel and spin me down to the sea-king 's palace ? " |
| 2 | ‘ So you just barge into my bedroom and wake me up ? ’ |
| 3 | One doctor was being driven home when he suddenly said : ‘ Stop the car and let me out ’ , at which he leapt out and ran off down the road into the dark . |
| 4 | My father come up to school , he come up there on a bike to see the schoolmaster and get me out to get a load of hay home . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you going to stop sitting there like some goddammed statue and fill me in on what 's going on in your head ? ’ |
| 6 | The lads would stay put and do their washing , though one of them would drive into town at lunch-time and bring me back if I had not already managed to get a lift back myself . |
| 7 | And they 're real dangerous too — they might jump onto the pavement and swallow me up with their big eyes . |
| 8 | Five men came to my place and beat me up and put the torch to my place . |
| 9 | ‘ Be a pet and do me up , sweetie . |
| 10 | Only the day before I might have prayed for a stray round to puncture the car and my coffin and put me out of my endless misery . |
| 11 | ‘ Ah , but if you did n't , why bother to confirm my appointment in writing and fly me out first-class ? |
| 12 | ‘ Will you take Owen my message And bring me back his answer ? |
| 13 | ‘ Jack wanted to leave a message and take me back to the auberge . |
| 14 | ‘ Open this damned door and let me in ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Just open the door and let me in . |
| 16 | Well when you all went , as you all left , when the last lot of redundancies were made , I said I 'm not paying no more union , Judith come over about the union meeting , I said I 'm not going to the meeting Judith and I said I want to come out of the union I 'm not paying any more , I said I ca n't afford ten pound a month for crap , well me and Jan had a big barney over it cos I never got on with her anyway and we had a big fucking row about it , she said the union this , the union that , I said where were the unions with my mates , they were n't in damn site , they were never there , we never saw one union representative from the day Audrey got done and we never ever saw erm till the last one got done , I said so do n't you tell me about the union I said they did fuck all , they were n't even here , so I said I do n't want to pay the union , and I said do n't tell me what to do Jane , I said what I do with me money is up to me I said get me out the union and get me out now , and then they all started , they all wanted to come out of it then , oh Maureen I think I might but what would Debbie say , I said Maureen do you ask her for a shit ? |
| 17 | Please guide my spirit and raise me up from depths of misery , so that my soul may be carried through your wisdom and may struggle fearlessly upwards in fiery flight . |
| 18 | I could see the beginning of cloud formations in the far west that looked as though they might thicken up and , since I wanted to get some shots of the Cove while the light was still good , I set off by Water Sinks , where the water from the Tarn sinks and does n't reappear again until some miles down the valley at Aire Head , and followed the footpath that would take me west of Watlowes dry valley and bring me down to the Cove by the pasture land above the Pennine Way . |
| 19 | Just bore a hole and pull me through |
| 20 | ‘ I 've given them this number and they 're going to test the line and call me back , ’ she said when Iris came in from the garden . |
| 21 | I need her to hold my hand and sit me down . |
| 22 | If they want to take it all away in the end and match me up with that slimy halfwit , why then take me up to the mountain and show me the world ? |
| 23 | I feel as if they 're gon na put me in a bag and shake me up . |
| 24 | The problem was finally solved by fixing a wire to my ankle and running it under the rock to an aqualunged diver , who on a signal from Stuart would tug on the wire and pull me down with the speed of an express lift , and would let go when my face turned blue . |
| 25 | I must have moaned : she looked at me coldly as if suspecting some kind of trickery , and then her face altered and she came across the room to take my arm and help me back to bed . |