Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it kept us and er when we were the school holidays my brother and me used to gather whelks and and that . |
| 2 | The aim of the ride is to raise money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and I hope to raise £1,000 . |
| 3 | We drove up , my grandson go goes to nursery you see and I like to give Gwen a hand with the girls , I got ta be up with now well it 's driving everybody round the bend ! |
| 4 | ‘ I 've got pace and I like to take defenders on either wide down the flanks or through the middle . |
| 5 | One woman whose mother was coming to live with her and her husband solved her problem by saying quite firmly beforehand , ‘ Now Tom and I like to eat supper alone and have a couple of hours ’ quiet talk together in the evening before we settle down to watch television , Mother . |
| 6 | I am good at breast stroke , butterfly and I like to practise handstands . |
| 7 | But it was a fun film , it only took a few days work — and I got to meet Mick Jagger ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Other students did n't treat me as a mature student and I got to know students aged 17 to 70 . |
| 9 | My flat was under an inch of water and I had to move things upstairs . |
| 10 | It became out-of-hand and I had to stop Rose , for after all Miss Ironside was my guest and she was getting very angry and upset . |
| 11 | It lasted three days in court and I had to do night duties and then , finishing between 12 and 2 a.m. , going on nights again , going off early , going to court . |
| 12 | And I had to do conversions on thousands of pounds and litres and gallons , I was working from a con |
| 13 | I was to be one of these victims , and I had to go afternoon after hot afternoon to learn to embroider in a room that even with the windows open was almost completely airless , trying to keep my eyes open while I stitched and listened to endless gossip . |
| 14 | The people of Tiree were very kind , and I had to take tea with a family who had good English , and invited me to come right away and remain their guest while I stayed on the island . |
| 15 | And I had to give Prentice full marks for cheek when I did . |
| 16 | Then he tried to force me to take the damn' thing , and I had to call attention to my delicate condition . |
| 17 | Yeah so anyway and I said that 's not very nice so we were talking this morning about her and I had to tell Ann did n't I that she drove to work three days on a trot in her bleeding lights two . |
| 18 | The medical faculty at Buenos Ayres would not accept me , and I had to work day and night for a year to learn enough science to be enrolled . |
| 19 | I had to write string quartets and little symphonies and I had to write jazz melodies over chords and , eventually , I had to write down my own music . |
| 20 | Danny Glover recalls : ‘ The script was never finished so Mel and I had to improvise scenes every day ! ’ |
| 21 | Naturally , my master bowed and I had to follow suit , reminding myself with a secret smile that Wolsey was only a commoner and no better than me . |
| 22 | Peace was hardly the reigning atmosphere when Halim and I managed to haul Lorne and his equipment out of there . |
| 23 | ‘ I chased after them , caught up with them and I managed to get hold of the three of them . |
| 24 | Be it one way or the other , and I prefer to give credit to Barbara , her headstone deserves to be preserved as an item of great interest in Ayrshire 's heritage . |
| 25 | A tablespoon of lemon juice added to the cooking liquid stops the beans discolouring , but I find this sometimes makes them tough and I prefer to add lemon juice at the end with the oil . |
| 26 | I 'm a musician , not an engineer , and I prefer to discuss issues like this in musical terms . |
| 27 | He nodded strongly and went on towards his Volvo , and I returned to find Fiona arguing with Nolan in the entrance hall . |
| 28 | ‘ We do have a membership scheme and I try to increase numbers from family membership through to corporate membership . |
| 29 | It was all quite true : the bobbin lifted 167 times and I failed to make contact once ! |
| 30 | Nick and I went to see Canon Oates and we knew after only a few minutes in his company that he wanted to help very much . |