Example sentences of "[prep] and [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He still insisted he had done nothing to be ashamed of and said he had been cleared of wrongdoing by his ‘ constant friend ’ Mr Major . |
| 2 | Mostly my father just gives me the money that I ask for and lets me get what I want for myself . |
| 3 | Conservative in , three times that for which we put on for and let me remind you again that out of that seventeen pounds , you put eleven on , not us , you put it on . |
| 4 | But they do n't speak any English , I do n't speak any Arabic , so I 'm gesturing away about the bar-tailed lark and not being able to go into the forbidden zone , and somehow or other the leader understands what I 'm going on about and makes me understand that because they 're nomads they do n't have to follow international boundaries . |
| 5 | Wishing that they 'd buzz off and leave you to watch Bergerac . |
| 6 | Middleton said his friend David had called for him at 10pm on the night the bank was broken into and asked him to drive a car to Jedburgh . |
| 7 | Swans wanted to strip away all the layers you protected your desensitised self with and make you feel again . |
| 8 | She had a foal with us during the dreadful winter of 1947 , and her behaviour became even worse , so much so that our good neighbour Mr Britton said she was n't fit for a young woman like me to work with and insisted I borrow his horse Bobby , a very even-tempered animal . |
| 9 | Discuss the importance of the UP to urban and inner cities community development initiatives with your MP and any other MP or Peer that you may have contact with and ask them to raise these issues with government . |
| 10 | Erm so this means that the house that you were so er happy with and have you continued to be happy with it ? |
| 11 | They share a similar life style , identify with and feel they belong to their status group and often place restrictions on the ways in which outsiders may interact with them . |
| 12 | I had never seen a bank nurse before and assumed she came from the Natwest . |
| 13 | It had happened at the rampart by Dr Dunstaple 's house where Cutter had just shot a sepoy the moment before and seen him fall ; at the same instant he had caught sight of another sepoy levelling his musket and had said to the Sikh beside him : " See that man aiming at me , take him down . " |
| 14 | He called David and I in and said he had read the scripts and thought they were terrible . |
| 15 | I paid Barry the fifteen dollars we had agreed on for a small , black Andean Equipment daysack to keep my new notebooks in and left him selling jewellery to his tour group . |
| 16 | The second of our problems had to be settled either over a table or in Court so it certainly was not acceptable to let 1,000 people in and hold them to ransom , as they did that night . |
| 17 | Come along in and let me introduce you . ’ |
| 18 | Of course we did n't interfere with her , just pulled down her drawers , you know , and put the barley in and let her go . ’ |
| 19 | Rachel could have brought the snow in and let it melt so as to distract attention from herself . |
| 20 | ‘ Come on in and help me make sense of this life I live . ’ |
| 21 | so she had to go back in and have it done again |
| 22 | Drab herself , Margaret loved having people in and letting them notice their new possessions . |
| 23 | Gower put West Indies in and watched them score 249 in 46 overs , thanks in part to a very fast outfield . |
| 24 | In years she was senior to everyone including the infrequently seen Charlie ; as mother hen to the dancing girls she 'd taken Lucy in and allowed her to feel at home in a matter of hours . |
| 25 | If , on reading this newspaper , you would like to ensure that your name and address as a graduate is properly updates , please write in to and ask us to send you a questionnaire and sae . |
| 26 | I packed in a lot of the things I wanted to and felt we had achieved what we set out to do . |
| 27 | she spoke to and said we 've discussed it cos I asked whether she 'd done that , she said she 'd spoken to and said we 've discussed that we should share the work more equally and said no I 'm happy with the way things were and left it that way |
| 28 | she spoke to and said we 've discussed it cos I asked whether she 'd done that , she said she 'd spoken to and said we 've discussed that we should share the work more equally and said no I 'm happy with the way things were and left it that way |
| 29 | I told you all I was at liberty to and thought you had accepted it . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I invited them to use anything they wanted to and to let me know if they could improve on it . |