Example sentences of "and i [am/are] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ This man and me are after slaughtering a few trees out there . ’
2 Looking at the evidence leads many scientists to believe that God made the world , whereas other scientists look at the same evidence and believe that it all happened by chance and that the world , the solar system , you and me are all just the result of a lucky string of enormous flukes !
3 By then Keenan and me are pretty drunk ; and they keep stealing our bottle from the dressing room , so we 'd go across the street and get another jug .
4 By this time Keenan and me are really drunk and I said , ‘ Well , what are we waiting for ? ’ and we go over .
5 Ardneavie House is big — at least ten bedrooms — and Lucinda and Jane and me are on the top floor with the boat's-crew Wrens .
6 ‘ The rumours of a reconciliation between James and me are absolute balls , ’ Becky said .
7 Dolores O'Riordan and three other blokes and me are sitting in a van that 's parked in a yard behind Charlie 's Bar where later on The Cranberries will bring tears to the eyes of grown men and ensure that all present can say ‘ yes ’ when asked if their weekend was happy and filled with nice things .
8 My sister and me are very close , so this woman gave me a giro to go to my sister 's — they took me to the station and put me on the train .
9 Because , tomorrow … tomorrow , head , you and me are leaving .
10 You know like I say there is quite a lot of trust and erm I think Yona and me are sort of aware er we 're very much united in the feeling that we do n't we do n't want things to erm you know we want everybody to be involved and obviously different people have different things to offer .
11 He , I tell you want he does n't do , I should n't let you hear , but , when he , when him and me are arguing when we were younger , and me dad used to wind Colin up , and wind me up , and I 'd get madder and madder , and me dad used to love it .
12 Oh well if he wants to know why I 'm there and me are you off sick I shall just show him a I 've got proof that I 've been off sick .
13 Can I just go down the shops , Kelly and me are just going get something ?
14 What do you mean , Tony and me are in good health ?
15 Dad erm her and are gon na go there and you and me are gon na
16 I have far fewer friends and I am partially sighted , which makes me a lot more vulnerable ; but whatever happens physically , I have always said that it was what happened mentally that mattered .
17 I have far few friends and I am partially sighted , which makes me a lot more vulnerable ; but whatever happens physically , I have always said that it was what happened mentally that mattered .
18 And I am also thinking of the identification of Rahila Khan — a novelist supposedly Asian and female — as an Anglican vicar ; and of the attempt to thwart a biography by the Englishman Ian Hamilton of the American J. D. Salinger , whose novels tell the story of his life , but who does not want anyone else to do so , preferring to keep his facts to himself .
19 I need to introduce a different dimension and I am at a loss .
20 And McGrindle , very matter of fact though drunk as usual : I have sixteen children , seven by my first marriage , four by my second , my second wife had two of her own , that makes thirteen , and three from my third , sixteen , and I am proud to say I have been able to give them all a good education and every chance in life without ever compromising my integrity .
21 And I am repeating .
22 The very word ‘ Mystery ’ could not provide a much heavier clue , and I am bold to assert that Agatha Christie 's inspiration to write mysteries featuring Hercule Poirot sprang directly from her reading of the following extract from the Harrogate Third Shepherd 's Pay in the Hull Cycle ( ‘ as it hath been divers time acted by the Guild of Chandlers and Gardners upon the Feast of Corpus Christie , ) :
23 The Festival 's come of age of late and I am more than happy that my sax playing has been the soundtrack for the Festival 's cinema trailer in recent years .
24 Now , five years later my pond is well-stocked with plants and fish , and I am able to give out plants in turn .
25 Yet there were those who moved easily around the margins , and I am certain the profound effects of this liminal time extended to more than a few of us who made this transition into structural limbo .
26 I am alone on a desolate plain , and I am cold and I am lonely thought Jay , chanted Jay , she could find no comfort .
27 I am alone on a desolate plain , and I am cold and I am lonely thought Jay , chanted Jay , she could find no comfort .
28 The parish schoolmasters are to make up the lists , and I am sure they will oblige .
29 And I am , honestly . ’
30 Rain pours down the window panes of my London flat and I am reading the letters of black political prisoners in the country I was born in .
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