Example sentences of "and [conj] i [verb] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that he 's dead , that he lived somewhere in West Cornwall , that his pictures are making high prices and that I wish we could afford one . |
| 2 | Now it 's one thing to say well , you know , perhaps these are women who take more exception than other women would do , but there comes a point where you have to accept , I think , that there 's going to be a shift of perspective , that what women have customarily put up with is no longer what they wish to put up and that I think we ought to be , as it were , acknowledged to have the right or the scope to say we want things to change , and to define or to set out in a process of defining what should be sexual appropriate sexual behaviour in future . |
| 3 | So it 's only a matter of two months and than I think we can make a long-term decision , not the short-term . |
| 4 | And although I knew I must hide my feelings , must never allow myself to hope , I also knew that while there was breath in my body , I would always love him . |
| 5 | Such chivalry is rarely met with by such as I , and although I know I should refuse it , for it will put you in debt , I confess I can not . ’ |
| 6 | After Flinders you are aware I go to Kings and although I trust it will not be so it might take a month to accomplish the journey ( that is if the winds prove contrary ) I state this in order that you might not be alarmed in not hearing from me . |
| 7 | Whenever Mackie was n't actively helping Tremayne she stayed close also to Fiona , and although I tried I could n't dislodge the underlying anxiety in their eyes . |
| 8 | His new novel , The Hammer of God ( Gollancz , £15.99 ) , is essentially an expanded short story , and although I suspect it will not perform as well as the Rama series , it will still be much in demand . |
| 9 | ‘ No , ’ he said , ‘ and if I had I would n't spend it on that . ’ |
| 10 | And if I had I would n't lend it to anyone as rotten damn patronizing , stupid and heartless as you . ’ |
| 11 | I mean if , and if I said we 'll have , if I have the policemen down , and they say they can , there nothing they can do because we do n't know their names |
| 12 | Andy has got a job to do and so have I. But if I lose he will be gutted for me at the end and if I lose I will be gutted for him . ’ |
| 13 | But to Phyllis Broome , a Worcestershire neighbour , writer and walking companion , he wrote : ‘ Here is the biggest job in the world and if I fail I shall share the fate of many a bigger man than I. But it 's a fine thought , is n't it ? |
| 14 | ‘ Mr Wyatt , I do n't have Garry Turner 's address , and if I did I would n't keep it among my underwear , ’ she said desperately ; the sight of her intimate things in his hands was sending strange shivers down her spine . |
| 15 | I do n't , and if I did I should have to suppose Providence to be the devil … ’ |
| 16 | Someone , I thought dimly , was waiting to see if I moved : and if I moved there would be a third thud and my heart would stop . |
| 17 | This baby has gone into one of his frenetic football sessions and if I move it 'll set him off again ! ’ |
| 18 | And and I think we might see it in one of two ways . |
| 19 | And I think it 's I would give very great weight to this partic these two criteria put together and and I think they should be made more explicit sir . |
| 20 | And because I know I ca n't finish it , there 's a good chance I wo n't start it . |
| 21 | ‘ I came back after two years out of the ring because boxing 's in my blood and because I feel I can win the title . |
| 22 | Mr Fishbane is obsessed with sex and while I imagine he ca n't do a great deal about it any more , poor old boy , until he 's finished his breakfast he 's almost out of control if he spies an attractive girl . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Thing is , Barbs barged in at an inconvenient moment when my brothers were moving some stuff into my place , and they came over all paranoid and looked at her very old-fashioned , and while I know they would n't do anything to her , now she 's gone missing I ca n't help wondering . |
| 24 | And while I think we ought to do what we can , I think there 's a line which ought to be drawn , and I do honestly wonder whether twenty-one , it was eighteen last year , and I just wonder if perhaps we should erm try and switch some of these to mid-week , so that we 're not seeing it virtually every Saturday of the year . |
| 25 | Anyway he looked like that he had a red car and he was sitting in the car and he put them down like that and they were like that in the car and after I thought I should 've popped at her house see if she 's wearing that in the house I thought you git . |
| 26 | And when I return I shall no doubt make another purchase and so on . |
| 27 | I went back to bathe my eyes and when I returned I could not see them . ’ |
| 28 | I will write again as soon as Ferdinando hears he is to go and when I do you must prepare Oreste for the change Ellen so that it is not sprung on him . |
| 29 | He had returned from Addis Ababa two days before , apparently cured , but his throat had now flared up again and when I arrived he could hardly speak . |
| 30 | And yet , although he was a scientific naturalist and although in frequent essays he reminds us of the insignificance and unimportance of man in the whole scheme of things , it 's plain that , from the beginning , and as I hope I shall be able to show you , right down to the end , he found something emotionally hard to bear , I was going to say , in fact , intolerable , in this situation . |