Example sentences of "and [conj] i [vb past] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I lay on my side , my shoulders and hips gave me particular trouble ; if I lay on my front , my back ached ; and if I lay on my back , the springs of the mattress dug into what little flesh I had left . |
| 2 | That night I went to the theatre and when I returned to my hotel , a quiet man in dark clothes was waiting for me . |
| 3 | He seemed bright enough and very eager to learn , but when I went to the school to see his work I found that his handwriting was very , very bad and his spelling was absolutely atrocious , and although he was good at mathematics , as time went on he began to get very worried and very upset about it and when I looked at his work I realized that he was doing a lot of the words back to front and was getting the direction of figures mixed up . |
| 4 | But it was n't OK and when I reached for my bishop , he 'd wave his arms over the board like a referee who 's just counted somebody out — and change his move . |
| 5 | ‘ And when I listened to your words , I felt so sad . |
| 6 | That left Michael McMahon , and when I wrote to his solicitors I was astonished to hear that he too had written a 100,000-word manuscript . |
| 7 | And when I worked for her boss he only paid me a fiver ! |
| 8 | Very pleased to have yours and as I said in my last it 's your money , God has been very kind to you and you must n't fly up in the face of his kindness and I wish you had not taken this step , your Uncle Steve says property 's more trouble than it 's worth . |
| 9 | That more exact calculation has , I think , met with general approval and as I said in my statement about our proposal for council tax benefit in a written answer on 28 November , we intend to maintain that closer alignment in the wake of the changes in local taxation that are intended to take effect in April 1993 . |
| 10 | And as I thought about their meaning , the tears slowed down until they stopped . |
| 11 | And as I looked at my little daughter , bright-eyed and ready to challenge the world , I could only pray that I would be ‘ good enough ’ in the new dance that was just beginning . |
| 12 | And as I marvelled at his breathtaking skiing the cost of a coffee in the Nederhutte mountain restaurant was not top of my concerns . |
| 13 | I listened to this tale of woe and as I dug with my tiny spade , wondered what I might find , an arm or perhaps a leg , but the only discoveries that I made were small pieces of coal washed up on the beach . |
| 14 | I almost floated to the car and as I settled in my seat Beamish put his face to the open window . |