Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I go back and sit down again , and she takes a hold of my hand and squeezes it like she 's saying sorry or summat . |
| 2 | They cause no great problem to anybody , and what ought to happen is that the gipsies and certainly the tinkers ought to be encouraged to buy sites and develop them and police them themselves . |
| 3 | Study the let-down chart and sketch it until you can remember : Let-down tracks and heights , Missed approach procedures , Relationship of final approach track to runways for your visual circuit . |
| 4 | ‘ Finally on the seventh day , I thought that , being Catholic , they 'd rest , but still unfed and unwatered , each pony was blindfolded and tacked up , and Raimundo got on each one 's back , and whipped it and whipped it out into the pampas , until the pony 's spirit was completely broken , and it 'll never argue with man again . |
| 5 | belittling the problem as defined by the parents and labelling them as over-anxious |
| 6 | Then make a list of all the items and photocopy it so you can give one to each guest . |
| 7 | So you can write down the delegation and photocopy it and give it to somebody . |
| 8 | Not only are they going to find themselves deliberately and actively squeezed from above and below by the very organisation , the ATP Tour , which is supposed to be protecting and encouraging them but they still have to compete against exhibition events , with open cheque books , for a handful of top players . |
| 9 | Kelly smiled as she thought of his early attempts at cooking and the hours he 'd spent coaching and encouraging her while she 'd practised riding a finish on the back of the sofa . |
| 10 | In the evenings I still wait there for her , and track her as she walks to school , with my ears humming . |
| 11 | Lyn put a cloth on a tray and laid it and on an impulse picked a small blue iris and put it in a vase to go on the tray as well . |
| 12 | What will her reaction be when she knows that her bright boy , while patting and stroking her and kissing her brow and her blue lips , must have been laughing up his sleeve at her , and thinking what a clever boy he is to be able to live in her fine house and have a big say in her business , while at the same time running a mistress on the side . ’ |
| 13 | Fred returns to haunt the nightmares of teenagers and to kill them while they sleep and dream . |
| 14 | And to kill it if you must . ’ |
| 15 | It is touching but rather embarrassing that after the film the rest of the people waited for the foreign quests to leave first , and clapped us when we went out . |
| 16 | Well we 've brought the two leagues together and amalgamated them and to do this , obviously the old British League was much stronger than the old National League , and we 've had to do some evening out . |
| 17 | Unix Expo delivered what it said it would , counting a record 28,722 attendees and characterising them as primarily corporate buyers . |
| 18 | They sulk if you do n't give , and hate you when you do . |
| 19 | The PLAYER gets to his feet and walks over to his barrel and kicks it and shouts into it . ) |
| 20 | They were generally of a mottled colour and looked most unappetising , " Try one Hamish " he invited , I would take one and taste it and then he would say : " What do you make of it ? " |
| 21 | And they spurred forward to pursue and take him , no doubt believing it a happy chance for them , and the Lord Owen caused his horse to appear to drop lame , and so encouraged and led them until they were spread all along the field in open order , within close range of the bowmen in the woods . |
| 22 | ‘ They are one of the few teams that have come here and attacked us and they did a good job , ’ he said . |
| 23 | And then on 10 April 1544 came Henry 's chilling order to his brother-in-law Edward , earl of Hertford , to put all to fire and sword , burn Edinburgh town , so razed and defaced when you have sacked and gotten what ye can of it , as there may remain forever a perpetual memory of the vengeance of God lightened upon ( them ) for their falsehood and disloyalty … and as many towns and villages about Edinburgh as ye may conveniently , sack Leith and burn and subvert it and all the rest , putting man , woman and child to fire and sword , without exception where any resistance shall be made against you ; and this done , pass over to the Fifeland and extend like extremities and destructions in all towns and villages whereunto you may reach conveniently , not forgetting among all the rest so to spoil and turn upside down the Cardinal 's town of St Andrews , as the upper stone may be the nether , and not one stick stand by another , sparing no creature alive within the same … |
| 24 | The ward sister had actually drawn her aside and asked her whether she did not think it would be a good idea to let her husband see his children more often in the future . |
| 25 | Soon she realised that he was singing her praises to his friends , because other similar garden owners rang her up and asked her if she could do a few hours for them too . |
| 26 | Australian DJ Brian White told his listeners that a drunken journalist had approached Kylie after she had been presented with an award and asked her if she felt ashamed to have won it in a room full of so many talented people . |
| 27 | Leaving Georgia sleeping , he 'd knocked on Yvonne 's door and asked her if she wanted to go swimming . |
| 28 | Philip stopped , got out and asked her if she was all right . |
| 29 | ‘ Emma saw her in Bamford and asked her if she could send her the book to sign and Harriet said yes , of course . |
| 30 | Markby telephoned Meredith and asked her if she was interested in a country walk that morning . |