Example sentences of "and [verb] i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His catches at Tring on flavoured maggot were extraordinary and led me to follow him . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He looked at me and asked me to take it . |
| 4 | Smith was a slow reader and took about an hour to read and ponder the document , after which he approved it and asked me to take it to Harold Wilson . |
| 5 | They gave me a line of coke , and asked me to do it for them . |
| 6 | " Well , she waylaid me as I was leaving after seeing your Toby , and asked me to give you a message . |
| 7 | He telephoned me at three o'clock in the morning , and asked me to confirm it . |
| 8 | All eight doctors signed a letter on 13 December to the Secretary of State for Health and asked me to pass it on . |
| 9 | I thought at the time she made nought of it , but back last summer , like you say , round August bank 'oliday , she came to see me and asked me to tell 'er everything I remembered 'bout the day of the explosion . |
| 10 | ‘ When your mother came to live here and asked me to advise her , ’ he said uneasily , ‘ I naturally wanted to know some background . |
| 11 | She rung me up and asked me did I want a microwave oven ? |
| 12 | When I was political editor of the Daily Mirror , Maxwell took a shine to this hat and asked me to get him one identical to it . |
| 13 | He gave me this and asked me to deliver it to Dick Tavett . |
| 14 | As I handed my music to the organist , I shook so badly he bought me a brandy and made me drink it . |
| 15 | Er I , I was going in the evening you know , doing the tailoring class but of course my illnesses have stopped me doing all of that and made me realize I ca n't do it all . |
| 16 | Whenever I am working with someone I know and trust I ask them for a quick trim . |
| 17 | And to establish I mean I think that as a g |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | A lot of women write and say I wish I 'd met you 20 years ago . |
| 20 | She accused her husband of fucking around and retained me to prove it . |
| 21 | ‘ Would this request from London have anything to do with the package and report I sent them , which never arrived because it was intercepted right here in this office ? ’ |
| 22 | She was driving from Frankfurt and phoned me to say she was leaving late . |
| 23 | Jess took a step backwards , muttering under her breath : ‘ God protect me and forgive me sins I did n't meant no wrong … ’ without believing in much except bruises , hunger and Fate which had a nasty way of turning the tables against her , but willing at the same time to try anything once . |
| 24 | He came and helped me lay it all in which was very nice . |
| 25 | ‘ Dana is very sorry for all the trouble she has caused and wants me to forgive her . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It 's his pleasure , ’ he said , ‘ that figure of mischief over there , to blow any piece of rubbish out of his mouth and challenge me to return it . |
| 27 | In poetry such a transport is evoked by a pattern of words ( selected by the poet perhaps with the most intense thought and effort ) , which stabilizes it and allows me to evaluate it at leisure . |
| 28 | I do n't believe she heard me because she yawned , handed me the key and told me to hang it round my neck so that no one could take it from me . |
| 29 | The assistant changed the battery and told me to monitor it for a week for any problems . |
| 30 | Sergeant-Chef Gibeau leant over , tapped me on the forefinger with a table knife and told me to do them up again . |