Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1904 he wrote to the poet and critic Arthur Symons : ‘ I have , however , of late years , lapsed so deeply into my early weakness for verse , & have found the condensed expression that it affords so much more consonant to my natural way of thinking & feeling that I have almost forgotten the prose effusions for the time . ’ |
| 2 | Erm I came to see you a few weeks ago at night you know er It 's just like I 'm just filling up , you know , with mucus and stuff and coughing and I had er no sleep for about a week . |
| 3 | I was bleeding from a laceration on my scalp and was so drunk that I had no recollection of what had happened ; a Sergeant quizzed me closely and seeing that I was incapable of speech , took me downstairs and put me into an ambulance . |
| 4 | Just to set the scene and seeing as I have n't been in the plot too much lately . |
| 5 | And seeing as I have n't got an account with them I do n't think they 'll say well you can have some anyway . |
| 6 | Because I 'm going out with people from work tonight and seeing as I 'm so it 'll look a bit off . |
| 7 | My boyfriend said he would stay at home and be the househusband and look after the children and do co co , the cleaning and cooking if I stayed at work . |
| 8 | When I was assigned to investigate Ruggiero 's kidnapping , Pietro made a statement to the press drawing attention to my lack of experience and my political views and demanding that I be replaced immediately . |
| 9 | At least , out here , I have — I admit this with shame — I have delivered an extended breech with the nurse giving chloroform at one end and praying and me delivering at the other end and swearing , and the baby lived , the mother lived , and everything was all right . |
| 10 | It taught me a lesson about drinking and driving that I 'll never forget . ’ |
| 11 | Indeed it was one of the most shocking stories of police corruption and legal incompetence I had ever read , and believing that I had the ability to rectify it , I decided , whatever my other commitments , that I must bring it to public notice as soon as possible . |
| 12 | In the end , my knitting was getting so chewed with all the knitting and unravelling that I took it off on waste yarn . |
| 13 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 14 | And it was one of those such nights that at half past seven I 'd just got most of the fires set and ready to er er just on and going and I 'd half an hour to get everything straightened and ready for eight o'clock opening , and the door at the back went , which was where the office used to be . |
| 15 | I had no such skill , but I was learning , and it was an infinite satisfaction to keep Joanna moving , and going where I wanted her to go , with the sweep . |
| 16 | Her mouth was everywhere , biting me and sucking my mouth and kissing me , and her fingers pinched and stroked her legs coiled round my legs until every bit of me was throbbing and burning and twitching and I was only conscious of never wanting it to stop . |
| 17 | And stop that damn blinking and twitching when I 'm talking to you , boy . |
| 18 | He turned my face to his and kissed them away — overpowering me with such a potent mixture of excitement and tenderness and yearning that I almost swooned . |
| 19 | As we walked to the restaurant I felt miserable , foreseeing argument and dissent and wishing that I possessed the charm and the experienced polish to ease the tension between these people . |
| 20 | After six sessions I was ready for the test , driving from Eaton Park , on all types of roads , sticking religiously to speed limits and observing as I drove . |
| 21 | The magazine America had already written about this ; it had published an interview in which I announced that I wanted to hand my collection over to the Tretyakov Gallery as a gift , and saying that I intended to make Lilya curator of the collection . |
| 22 | Having looked at my passport , the Gendarme made a telephone call during which he turned to look at me , spelling out my name and saying that I was English and a former paratrooper . |
| 23 | ‘ George Courtney is special and sent me a letter congratulating me and saying if I need any help , just to give him a ring . |
| 24 | Notwithstanding we do not believe as we 've already said that flows of traffic justify and coming if I may er before Mr answers to give him time to think about it , to the figures from Mr . |
| 25 | a few years ago when my sons were teenagers I had some nice dripping and I said , you 've never had bread and dripping and I gave them some , I put a bit of salt on , I said , try this , I loved a bit of med bread and dripping when I was your age . |
| 26 | So I took my time over the bread and dripping and I spilt my cocoa on the floor in an effort to play for time . |
| 27 | a few years ago when my sons were teenagers I had some nice dripping and I said , you 've never had bread and dripping and I gave them some , I put a bit of salt on , I said , try this , I loved a bit of med bread and dripping when I was your age . |
| 28 | But my efforts at poking her rear end were fruitless ; she faced me all the time , wide-mouthed and growling as I circled . |
| 29 | If I were the Secretary of State for Social Security , which I am not , my nightmare would be the early morning phone call from the Department 's press office saying that an eviction is taking place that day , that the media and particularly the television cameras will be there and asking whether I would be there and what were the Government 's comments . |
| 30 | Here in Devon I can obtain a variety of inert rocks without abandoning my conservationist principles , simply by visiting various quarries and asking if I can pick over their rubbish piles . |