Example sentences of "and [verb] i [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He looked at me and asked me to take it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They gave me a line of coke , and asked me to do it for them . |
| 5 | He telephoned me at three o'clock in the morning , and asked me to confirm it . |
| 6 | All eight doctors signed a letter on 13 December to the Secretary of State for Health and asked me to pass it on . |
| 7 | He gave me this and asked me to deliver it to Dick Tavett . |
| 8 | As I handed my music to the organist , I shook so badly he bought me a brandy and made me drink it . |
| 9 | She accused her husband of fucking around and retained me to prove it . |
| 10 | He came and helped me lay it all in which was very nice . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The assistant changed the battery and told me to monitor it for a week for any problems . |
| 15 | The landlord was furious and told me to wash it off . ’ |
| 16 | All my days and hope I finish it here . |
| 17 | ’ Then waive your share and let me do it alone , ’ I suggested . |
| 18 | She swept me away from the door , along a line of cars , into her aged scarlet mini , gave me a handkerchief , and let me cry it out . |
| 19 | I want you to draw up the will exactly as I 've said , and let me have it as soon as possible . ’ |
| 20 | There is a hand-out on professional telephone behaviour , a hand-out on the pleas from the switchboard supervisor , and also a form , a course form , if you could take that with you fill it in and let me have it back sometime . |
| 21 | But you could give me this project , put me in charge of the entire operation — and let me see it through . |
| 22 | But the whole lot was done and opened I think it was er in August , eighteen forty six . |
| 23 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 24 | right , two things first of all I mean I think this is the first one and once Napier get it up and running I think it 's exportable |
| 25 | He do n't mind me asking , and lets me use it . |
| 26 | ‘ Let's try and forget I said it . |
| 27 | I am half-pissed and brilliant , Francis takes me for egg and chips and strong tea and tells me to give it up . |
| 28 | Although how we were supposed to be able to afford to rebuild , I had no idea , but whenever I queried anything he would just laugh and tell me to leave it all to him . ’ |
| 29 | And do I want it ? |
| 30 | Well I think that 's a good way of putting it , absolutely , I mean er As as I say but it it is erm I think it 's been a long process and to get I mean it 's taken nearly two years since the |