Example sentences of "and [conj] i [vb past] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Three of them floated in a sea of garlic and tomato and although I found them no better than chewy chicken my wife told me they were well up to scratch .
2 I thought Sharan a fish tank and cos I bought her a radio cassette for Christmas and she said if I wan na listen to tapes I 'll use that .
3 I was bathing you , and I fetched a clean nappy , and when I unfolded it the letter dropped out , and we read it . ’
4 But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them .
5 And when I saw it the other day , on my way from London 's West End , I could n't believe it .
6 And when I showed him a list of names I had collected ( why , I do not know , I had some notion of an appeal or inquiry ) , he read : ‘ Lynch , Connally , Egan , Kelly … etc. ’ and then he looked at me and added , ‘ I was looking at the lists of those who died in the recent great victories of general Gough at Aliwal and Sobraon in India .
7 But she added : ‘ The people at work think I 'm insane and when I showed them the video of the bungee jump it just confirmed their opinion that I 'm a lunatic . ’
8 My eyes were shut most of the time now as I blundered round the park and when I opened them a red mist swirled .
9 and when I gave them a questionnaire saying how would you label someone as gay they said , we never make those kind of assumptions .
10 And as I saw her a cold hand closed around my heart .
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