Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst I was in Holloway , my probation officer sorted out something to try and stop me getting a prison sentence . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't think it would be very wise of you to try and get me sent back to London . ’ |
| 3 | But Elsie Birdsall and Lavinia Thwaites kept coming in with all kinds of things to try and get me going — home-made soups , arrowroot , custards — and finally I began to mend a little . |
| 4 | Towards the end he could no longer fend for himself and good neighbours used to come and help me get him up out of bed and into a chair . |
| 5 | Now he says he wants to come and see me working . |
| 6 | ‘ I want people to come and see me playing Billy , not Adrian Boswell , in the same way as they went to watch Michael Crawford , not Frank Spencer . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ They both love sport and have no time for show business — except sometimes they like to come and hear me sing . |
| 8 | Well that happened and er I was man and er they er brought me all the odd jobs that was going about and they used to go down the warehouse and er there was a fellow there , well a woman more than anything , know 'd where every thing was and in no time at all they showed me where the things were and er I er , young , it was in my memory , and in no time at all the men in the shop used to come and ask me to get them something from out the warehouse for this and that and the other . |
| 9 | They always do that , the saucy wenches , they like to tease and make me beg for them to come back . |
| 10 | He rose to go and told me to take care . |
| 11 | And I , er and I pretended to be incapable and I , and said I would like someone to go and help me do shopping , home health service would have , come along . |
| 12 | After a silence he 'd risen greyly to his feet to leave and told me to look after myself . |
| 13 | Oh dear , he thought , she 's going to cry and make me look a bastard in front of all the doctors and nurses . |
| 14 | I 've always loved cleaning , it helps me to think and stops me getting ideas above my station . |
| 15 | I waited behind the cart for them to stop and let me pass . |
| 16 | and the trade union movement , the liberation struggle , when you look at it it gives you great hope in terms of human capacity but they will need other kinds of help in order to reconstruct and let me say this because it is important and I do n't say it with any kind of arrogance we have one kind of miracle occurring in South Africa that people ignore and that is that out of the hell of racism we have produced a leadership which is the strongest leadership in the world against racism . |