Example sentences of "and i [verb] [adv] [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided to specialise in patio pot plants but nothing thrived , and I 've just discovered that woodlice have invaded the pots and even eaten away the linings of wall baskets . |
| 2 | ‘ You quibble about names , and I 've just discovered that my father was once called Antonio Corosini ! ’ she cried bitterly . |
| 3 | yes and I 've just verified that this witness agrees on that matter and that he has nothing to do with it , is that right ? |
| 4 | It is this is a totally disgraceful situation , and I 've also explained that to my brother and I am endeavouring to put this situation right , erm but it is a conflict of interests and I do n't really know what else I can say . |
| 5 | It 's always been on my mind — I suppose it always will — and I 've always said that if I got the opportunity to kill the man I 'd do it , and I would take the consequences . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been an engineer for a long time , and I 've always believed that ethics and integrity were every bit as important as theorems and formulas , and never once has anything happened to change my beliefs . |
| 7 | It may be that one of my children might want one or two of them , but nobody these days has the houses to hang pictures in the way Bunny and I have done , and I 've always known that the public will eventually enjoy them . |
| 8 | I was not from a religious background , and I had previously thought that anyone who went to the mikva had to wear ghastly old-fashioned dresses with thick tights and live in a Yiddish-speaking ghetto ! |
| 9 | And I have also remembered that I know a deputy headmaster in a school in Wales . |
| 10 | On five different occasions ( and in three countries ) I have asked teachers to mark essays , projects , assignments , and I have sometimes indicated that they were by boys and other times that they were by girls . |
| 11 | There is a lot of racism in the school , and I have often believed that a lot of multicultural talk should start with the staff before it starts with the pupils . |
| 12 | The procedure for job applications and interviews is well known to most returners and I have therefore assumed that you do not need detailed guidance on this . |
| 13 | Whenever there 's been officers get together , then W R A D itself paid for my travelling expenses and I have never claimed that from the authority , as I did n't believe that was proper . |
| 14 | Then , as now , people had nicknames as they do in Wales , and I have always suspected that this type of labelling has causes other than the lack of variety in local surnames . |
| 15 | I also made a documentary about the U-boat campaign which in two world wars had nearly brought us to our knees ; and I have always regretted that after the last war , when we sank so many of them in deep water , we did not keep one as a trophy and bring it up the Thames into the heart of London : it would have been a perennial attraction for every schoolboy in the country . |
| 16 | Victoria and I have undoubtedly passed that milepost . |
| 17 | To this day — and I have exhaustively researched that particular sortie led by Willie Tait — and , despite watching several 8mm films of the bombs falling , shot by the camera crew in a No 463 Squadron Lancaster . |