Example sentences of "and [verb] i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play . |
| 2 | He sent his parents a letter promising that ‘ if the good Lord God be merciful unto me and bring me safe home again , I will all the days of my life serve Him in praising His Holy name and exhorting others ’ . |
| 3 | Take it to Ligulf and bring me some meat . |
| 4 | And bring me some coffee ! |
| 5 | Run home at once , and bring me some gloves and a fan . |
| 6 | Then she made me promise to get them back to her in one piece within a week and sold me two tickets to a Ward Bond Retrospective at her film club in Ponder 's End . |
| 7 | And send me greate crymes to investygate : |
| 8 | We 're running out of time as usual , so if I can just come to that final line to you to consider and give me some views on them before you go . |
| 9 | Oh that 's jolly convenient for the p erm go and put me little cross on the way then . |
| 10 | They 're gon na come and see me next week . |
| 11 | Eliot 's own letter contained , besides some telling points , an amusing conclusion in which he invited Miss West , in order to ‘ talk these matters over quietly ’ to ‘ come up and see me some time ’ . |
| 12 | She says she 's going to come round and see me some time . |
| 13 | He has agreed to come and see me this morning , if you 're interested . ’ |
| 14 | He picked up the dice , and showed me six sides . |
| 15 | During all the years I went to school in Parma she never failed to get up to warm the kitchen and give me hot drinks , however early it had to be ; it was sometimes five o'clock , if I had to finish work from the night before . |
| 16 | A brief structural guide is all I 'm after … and then my tutor wo n't kill me and give me bad references for being a lazy git ( which I admittedly am ) ( This was supposed to be in last july ! ! ! ) |
| 17 | Now , off you go and give me some peace . |
| 18 | Oh someone give me some money come and give me some money . |
| 19 | I told them to put a tourniquet on my arm and give me some morphia , whereupon one of them started to bandage my wrist and the other went off to ask what morphia was . |
| 20 | ‘ Just shut up and pass me that apple . ’ |
| 21 | representative , and , an independent superintendent , have just inspected the ship and tell me that loading can not start until the crew have dried out the holds — that will delay us a while . |
| 22 | Oh , go and get me that packet of digestive biscuits |
| 23 | Are you gon na nip and get me some Tunes and |
| 24 | ‘ My good fortune lay in working with great men who were patient with me and taught me good habits that were never to be forgotten . |
| 25 | Rye praises the IT she has received : ‘ The project has kept me off the streets and taught me useful things like carpentry . |
| 26 | And he said he did n't know that , that he would get hold of Sen and ring me first thing , thing in the morning er , to tell me why Sen has n't paid . |
| 27 | Give my love to Julius , and ring me some time next week to let me know how things are going . ’ |
| 28 | And rang me this morning . |
| 29 | He 's read papers on the subject , visited laboratories and driven me mad reading out passages that sound like a foreign language . |
| 30 | But my ex heard about this and sent me two letters , full of how much he cares for me and that the break-up was his fault . |