Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb -s] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am half-pissed and brilliant , Francis takes me for egg and chips and strong tea and tells me to give it up . |
| 2 | He 's honest to a fault and makes me feel I 'm greatly loved . |
| 3 | The sand functions as a ground plane or as a surrogate elevation and enables me to shift building elements so as to understand their sculptural capacity . |
| 4 | This practical demonstration of working positively with conflict gives me confidence in your work and helps me to see how I can listen better to others . |
| 5 | In visor and sunshades I swatted antipodean flies , my cheeks padded with sponges and my eyes squinting through blue contact lenses , and the whole world thought it was a backdrop . |
| 6 | My commandant accepts the conclusions of the médecin légiste and instructs me to abandon my enquiries . ’ |
| 7 | This is an important finding and leads me to question the enthusiasm and commitment that the National Blood Transfusion Service laboratories will bring to the provision of autologous blood throughout the country . |
| 8 | For them an insidious sense of illusion stimulates my imagination and enables me to see the entire pageant of Venetian ships , present and past , actual and intangible , sailing before my eyes . |
| 9 | his drawing pad and makes me trace again and again |
| 10 | The wasted life and the wasted love that comes to me in the night and makes me cry out in pain . ’ |
| 11 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 12 | He hands me a billy and suggests I get some snow for water and a few twigs to start the fire . |
| 13 | Get out of the way and pushes me do n't make me start with you Jo , all this stuff . |
| 14 | In she comes for her pension , takes it without a by-your-leave then calls me a bloody wog and tells me to go home to where I come from . ’ |
| 15 | He gives me medicine and tells me to rest . |
| 16 | He gives me what the French call a curious regard and asks me to explain myself . |
| 17 | This adjustment compensates for the slope and allows me to swing normally . |