Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] and i [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 British Rail have nothing to report and I 've no problems to tell you about on the local buses either .
2 Zoe describes herself as ‘ a chameleon ’ ‘ I do what I like and I have a good time doing it . ’
3 This meant that I was free to respond to the effects that developed as I worked and I got a feel both for the subject and the pastels I was using .
4 Well I went and I had a different drug from Prozac , I had something which is actually newer and er
5 That report was sent to our national executive committee and on May the nineteenth the leader of the Labour party stated and I quote , the plant committee concludes that different elected bodies can be chosen by different electoral systems , that is the view which I share and I support the proposals made both for a reformed second chamber and the European parliament .
6 I live and I have a full life too . ’
7 Well , two or three years ago , I said to really mad , there 's me working full time , him on shifts and me Monday to Friday , nine till five , come Friday night I start and I spend the entire weekend washing , ironing , cooking , and
8 I did and I passed the exam ( which seemed very important at the time , although now I am not so sure ) .
9 I said I did I said and I had an awful job to get it out again .
10 I said and I have a feeling that there was somebody there watching me I could feel it .
11 ‘ I went to the old house where she lived and I saw the paintings .
12 And erm you know and I had a letter then from Mr , saying that they would consider us for a place , in the flats .
13 There is a possibility , depending on what hypothesis you assume and I have no way of knowing which hypothesis is correct …
14 She waved and I did a U-turn — taxis are ace at that — and headed back to the nightmare in the bathroom .
15 Would you credit and I got the bastard .
16 No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow .
17 For example , we meet and I tell a joke ; we both laugh ; you respond with a joke ; we both laugh .
18 twenty second a ba er about a week before we go and I have a little toy for , for Geoffrey he 's two
19 He added that when platform staff asked the commuters to leave the train , ‘ we refused and I borrowed a portable phone to ring Waterloo to complain .
20 I make no apology for the number of committees that we have and I make no apology for the numbers on the committee .
21 Now , now that we are , are there I think we will stay there , and rightly , and I must say that er we have and I have a lot of confidence in the way the Americans have handled this so far , I think President Bush has done very well .
22 Yes , yes , it , it hit , it hit us dreadfully yes , yes and you , you would 've , this er chappie who showed us slides , he showed us erm er you know the soup kitchens that we did erm they did and I think the Guilds ' women were involved with that you know .
23 I mean I can understand why they do and I like the stuff myself , but I do n't share the belief that I get from all sides that impressionism is what art should be like normally .
24 I thought that I had n't chosen to get married at all but that Syl had chosen to marry me , since it was time for him to marry and I offered no threat to the way and integrity of his life and character , and that my mother had chosen to see me wed because I was good for little else .
25 At seven it tightens and I feel a tug .
26 I think ( I can not remember the number ) that it must have been at least 20 lashes he received and I felt every one of them .
27 He grinned and I caught the mockery in his voice .
28 He went and I had a few miserable weeks .
29 He smiled and I felt the hairs on the back of my neck go rigid .
30 ‘ That 's what he said and I have no reason to doubt him .
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