Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British murmur ‘ You must come and stay with us some time , ’ and when they part they say ‘ Let's keep in touch ’ and they certainly do n't mean it , but it greases the wheels of intercourse . |
| 2 | He saw himself as a wise and benign deity , presiding over his kingdom and seeing to it that evil did not always prevail ; a hollow symbolism of course and anyway he rather liked hemp agrimony and ground ivy . |
| 3 | You part of the horn , you dredged them up , cos you used t the only thing we saw taken out , then this old fella used to come down from the Museum or whatever he was and he used to be pleased he 'd stay there all day and pick up them all . |
| 4 | ‘ It needs a born Highlander to understand aright our Scottish Highlanders ’ , goes on JTR , ‘ and to gather from them all the lore they know , so as to give us pictures that will live on in after ages . |
| 5 | The all-woman crew were bringing the launch in , leaping with fearless agility to the jetty and tying up efficiently , as though they had been born on boats and lived on them all their life . |
| 6 | I suppose the best thing for you to do is to book a plane ticket to London for around the beginning of April and forget about him that way . ’ |
| 7 | Newspaper correspondents and representatives of the Ministry of Information were frequent visitors to Burma , and we did our best to give them what news we had , to tell them about government hopes and plans , and to extract from them any news and wisdom they had to give us . |
| 8 | The sun 's warmth falls on my body , its rays filling me and driving from me all fear and shadows . |
| 9 | All they had to do was sit back and wait for it all to fall apart . |
| 10 | The parent is the person whom we 've copied , talking and listening to them all our lives . |
| 11 | He was saying how he used to stand awestruck in the Sugar House and listen to you all night long ! |
| 12 | After the phenomenal success of In Which We Serve , the Italian producer Filippo del Giudice , whose belief in high-budget artistic filmmaking was in line with Rank 's , attached his Two Cities company to Independent Producers , and made through it such films as the Lean-Coward This Happy Breed ; Laurence Olivier 's rampantly patriotic version of Shakespeare 's Henry V ( 1945 ) ; Thorold Dickinson 's unbalanced Men of Two Worlds ( 1946 , Witch Doctor in US ) and Carol Reed 's Odd Man Out ( 1945 , Gang War in US ) , the story of a dying gunman 's desperate search for charity on the streets of Belfast . |
| 13 | Making hats for a living and looking at them all day long has mellowed her taste somewhat . |
| 14 | and cling to her all night as sheets … |
| 15 | I 'll wait for her and walk with her all the way to Miss Lucchesi 's . |
| 16 | Then , restraining Loppe with a light hand , she fetched wine and a platter for Nicholas , and poured for them all before she sat down herself . |
| 17 | Ah but what it means , I 've got to walk around and look at it this and look at it that ! |
| 18 | I know you 're unhappy , but you ca n't sit indoors and brood about it all day . ’ |
| 19 | He leaned into it and the fielder at midwicket could only turn and jog after it all the way to the boundary . |
| 20 | He fed it lots of oil and wiped at it all the time with an oily rag so it shone . |
| 21 | You may set that as a target to try and work at it this way to overcome that or to do it better . |
| 22 | But , oh he 's quite happy , he 'll curl up in the back of a car , but when I come home and he goes so berserk if I 've left him at home , I know that he 's been watching and listening and waiting for me all that time . |
| 23 | Our friend Pétur Björnsson ( Pétur , son of Björn ) has a lovely blonde daughter Marta , who speaks no English and talked to me all night when we were last there in a glorious mixture of Icelandic and sign language . |
| 24 | He wanted the place immaculate but he 'd never tidy up , he just sat there in his chair from morning till night and got at me all the time about the housework . |
| 25 | He scrubbed and scrubbed till it all come off did n't he ? |
| 26 | These were distinctly papal Councils , called by popes and used by them both to make their reforms better known throughout the Church and to involve other ecclesiastical dignitaries in the reform movement : it suited the papacy to extend the range of people invited . |
| 27 | Three sets of four okay and you can just turn that round and look at it that way now . |
| 28 | Ah but what it means , I 've got to walk around and look at it this and look at it that ! |
| 29 | ‘ A foursome would be nice , ’ she mused , ‘ and look at it this way , we can be your chaperons . ’ |
| 30 | Dealers who exhibit generally agree that the fair is successful commercially , has improved its standard in recent years , and look to it this year to test the general market for antiques and collectibles . |