Example sentences of "[vb past] and [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , whilst in Venice , the Inquisition caught me , tried and condemned me to burn in the great piazza before St Mark 's . |
| 2 | ‘ The warder came and told me to dress and led me to an officer of the court , ’ the small , self-effacing lawyer recalled in an interview on Saturday . |
| 3 | He came and helped me lay it all in which was very nice . |
| 4 | How can he have the nerve to stand there calm and composed and expect me to behave in the same way ? she thought angrily . |
| 5 | In the seat in front two passengers recognized the farm where they lived and wanted me to see it too . |
| 6 | There were many heads like that in Spain , and I would follow outstanding examples gazing in admiration at that nape , that neck , that flat-backed skull , until the head turned and let me glimpse the face , which was never disappointing . |
| 7 | He turned and saw me smile . |
| 8 | An old woman opened the door — she seemed to be expecting him — and as he went in he turned and instructed me to wait . |
| 9 | The Gendarme nodded and told me to wait outside . |
| 10 | So I lied and said I detected nothing untoward in finding a bullet-riddled boat awash in the Bahamian seas . |
| 11 | ‘ And the reason the boy wonder suddenly rang and invited me to watch him go through his paces was because he wanted to show off something rotten , ’ she teased , intent on bringing him back down to earth . |
| 12 | They thrashed around , kicked and screamed and begged me to help … but I could n't move . |
| 13 | So I went and left I got a job at which that was one of 's . |
| 14 | Mm , we went in that , we went and got me barm cakes and a bit , a few veg and that , went , oh I bought Li Joanne a little set of er instead of an Easter egg , it 's quite nice , I got it from that shop , you know erm next to Kingston and Hutch |
| 15 | She just went and said I 've got this you know , check up , cos she knew she was going to Christies for her final check up and , they 've whizzed her in . |
| 16 | She pleaded and begged me to change my mind , but I was adamant . |
| 17 | My father feared my mother as much as I did and wished me to please and agree with her always , for when I did not she would complain to him of my behaviour and I suspected that when this happened his new wife would complain in her turn that he paid too much attention to us and too little to her and her own children . |
| 18 | He had no answer , but in the meantime the manager appeared and asked me to come into the office . |
| 19 | Just then a young man appeared and called me to follow him . |
| 20 | Not in a very big way , but I 've got an eye for that sort of thing and I told him I would n't split on him if he resigned and helped me choose the successor I wanted . |
| 21 | You wrote and told me to ring — presumably you were too mean to ring me — but you had n't given me the number . |