Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their president , Gordon Stulberg , became president of Twentieth Century-Fox and asked me to direct The Poseidon Adventure , which became the company 's most profitable film . |
| 2 | Because he did n't think his player was coming over , Orville Moody 's caddie had taken Tom Weiskopf 's bag , but when he suddenly heard Orville was flying over , he ditched Tom and suggested I take over the bag . |
| 3 | Carel Weight visited Wimbledon and encouraged me to try for the Royal College . |
| 4 | ‘ I want yow and Frankie ter pay yer Granny a visit every Sunday and let me know how she is . |
| 5 | It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress . |
| 6 | I wore a suit that Mary had seen in a second-hand shop in Paris and insisted I bought so that at least I had one outfit I could put on for interviews without worrying whether it looked OK or not . |
| 7 | in his arms and treat and Mr Bumble rushed into the room with great excitement and addressed the gentleman in the high chair said I beg your pardon sir , Oliver Twist has asked for more , there was a for more said compose yourself Bumble and do I understand that he asked for more after he 'd eaten supper he did sir replied Bumble , that boy would be hung I know that boy will be hung |
| 8 | During my visit to Proctor and Gamble I expected to spend most of my time listening to smart women complain about having their key strokes counted . |
| 9 | They went to the International Red Cross and the CDHES and got me released . |
| 10 | Buchan was living at Elsfield Manor near Oxford and invited me to come and see him : no one could have been more helpful and encouraging . |
| 11 | She says Mackem and Tackem I du n no but that 's what people say |
| 12 | ‘ One day he returned home to Chamalières and said I had a job with Michel and Pierre for £1.50 a month . |
| 13 | Falstaff as ‘ a masculine decayed cornucopious form of the love goddess ’ is amusing as a paradox , though how the boar can be both Mars and Persephone I do not quite see . |
| 14 | ‘ The Greek 's name is Vassily Antinou and let me tell you , he 's an even deeper mine of stupid contradiction than you are . |
| 15 | I got full marks for composition at school by cribbing the life of Albert Schweitzer and claiming I wanted to be a missionary when I grew up . |
| 16 | She was driving from Frankfurt and phoned me to say she was leaving late . |
| 17 | So she took the handbag back into Tesco and said I found this handbag erm and they said well give me your name and address and all that so in any rate what happened Bet ? |
| 18 | Well then about a month later he said he rung June and said I 've been speaking to Geoff he said and th they wan na hi er hire a car for a week . |