Example sentences of "and [adv] [conj] i [vb base] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general point here and I want to make is that er , these are n't officers ' promises these are the members ' promises and er , erm , we 've got to be careful that er when they 're all drawn together that we are n't making a hostage fortune , erm and so that I think it is very important members take aboard er what is suggested and test them themselves to see that they are realistic , I would also say that er as these promises are being considered by the various committees and I note a considerable variation in standards which will need to be addressed when the promises er , have come back to the Policy Committee , these are particularly in reference to the time required to respond to er , erm complaints etc , it 's no use having the Highways Committee wanting two weeks and incidentally on promise number two erm I think that er any up , somebody else 's point er straight forward wants to be deleted , erm the highways require two weeks to respond er , erm hearts and libraries want a , you know half a day , er and we 've got to get these er erm more or less synchronized I think , and whilst I 'm thinking Chairman on the last page er of the er favourite for , for first for agent authorities , but it does n't give any indication about the contact point and as most of our population live in the agent authorities that the er it needs to be expanded to give the contacts er points for the members of the public . |
| 2 | But I 'm the one who has to stand up out there and do it , and so while I take his point I have to find the right levels for myself . |
| 3 | So I might be showing myself doing worst than I should be but , look , my actual come out about the same and so when I compare my actual with my planned , I get er , an answer which should approach one . |
| 4 | His argument then can be rewritten as follows : if I know this — and this is a central case of the sort of thing I know if I know anything — then I know that knowledge is impossible , and so if I know anything I know nothing . |
| 5 | Because I 'm going to help her with her paper round tomorrow so she can get it done early — the people do n't come before 7 and we 've got to be at the bus terminus by 8.30 ; because that 's when we 've arranged to meet — ; meet our friends of course and so if I help her with her round she can get it done in time . |
| 6 | And so as I understand it that 's the situation |
| 7 | And much though I appreciate your relentless exhumation of the world 's injustices month by month , I find myself hankering after the wacky old days . |
| 8 | He leaves he leaves all I thought Kath would have phoned me because I wrote her a letter and normally when I write her a letter she sort of , phones about the next day but she |
| 9 | He sits there looking like John Knox being unimpressed by Mary Stuart , and just as I think he 'll never let me increase my overdraft he says , ‘ Aye , life 's not easy for a woman alone with no head for business . |
| 10 | And I 'm going as slow as I can go and I 'm just taking everything in , and I 'm unwinding , I 'm relaxing mentally and physically as I do it because that 's what I feel I need at the moment , and having that ability is good . |
| 11 | I was just discussing this last night , but they used to be more friendly atmospheres , even with the away supporters years ago you know it was but things go full circle in the end and hopefully like I say we 're getting back to some sort of sanity now . |
| 12 | ‘ My main thought was if I offer him my car how will I get to work tomorrow , and also if I give him the car will I be able to collect the insurance ? |
| 13 | M M My Lords , i it is important that whatever is taught to a child between the ages of five and eleven that the child is able to benefit from it educationally if the child is , is overloaded as it were by being presented erm a curriculum that they simply can not manage , then that 's going to create confusion , but it 's also important to say that one of the erm er objectives of this whole exercise is to underpin all education , both morally and spiritually and I believe we 're doing a great deal to get that right . |
| 14 | You could n't join the library until you were seven , and before that I read my Hans Christian Anderson back to front when I 'd read it twenty times from start to finish . |
| 15 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 16 | ‘ One moment he 's on cloud nine , and now when I tell him all that 's gone on he 'll feel as though he 's been knocked over by a juggernaut . |
| 17 | ‘ I have no rational ground for going back on the arguments that convinced me of God 's existence : but the irrational deadweight of my old sceptical habits , and the spirit of the age , and the cares of the day , steal away all my lively feeling of the truth , and often when I pray I wonder if I am not posting letters to a non-existent address . ’ |
| 18 | Mr Dobbs said : ‘ As far as I am aware the BBC want to do the sequel , and even as I speak they are discussing potential script writers . ’ |
| 19 | And even though I know I 'll be there to support her , I ca n't do anything to help her , and for a man to admit that to himself is really hard . |
| 20 | I did n't need to apply much pressure and even though I cut myself once , my skin was smooth afterwards . |
| 21 | And even though I assure myself that it 's just the annual resurgence of an old allergy ( a distant relation of eczema — Xmasa ) , I am still incapable of keeping the worst symptoms at bay . |
| 22 | Taking the prince by the hand , she continued , ‘ Lo , here is this gentleman whom I doubt not would be safely kept by me , if I were permitted ; and well as I know there be some deadly enemies to my blood , that if they knew where any lay in their own bodies , they would let it out if they could ! ’ |
| 23 | I was eight years old when he died ; his death affected me deeply and profoundly and I miss him still . |
| 24 | But she is n't , and surely if I tell her , then after a while she will see that it is all right and forgive me . |
| 25 | And then once I suppose he would n't make it in the house would he he would have it made and brought to the house . |
| 26 | Loving you , it was all I wanted , and then when I read his words … |
| 27 | and then when I see her leg was swollen |
| 28 | And then as I say they can write off for a pack and they get examples which cost them . |
| 29 | And then and I think they 've they 're a subcontractor that 's died . |
| 30 | Never called greatest cat , really is , I mean , come towards ya , grab you and bite you and then if I throw him away about five minutes later he 'll come up and bite you again you know , really fucking , do n't just like , just keeps on doing it . |