Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] and i " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted me to drive on and I was in no position to argue . |
| 2 | She 's a clumsy clogs that 's why I wo n't let her walk around with the baby if she wants to cuddle her I tell her to sit down and I tell her not to move well she 's always tripping over her feet . |
| 3 | Can I just say colleagues before you , you second the motion , there is this hubbub again that 's growing , I mean it seems to go down and I do n't know perhaps it 's like the tide but can we try and keep it a bit lower , especially when colleagues are trying to make a speech from the rostrum . |
| 4 | When I auditioned with Mike , he gave me a list of twenty-five songs to work on and I thought I had to learn them all in five days , because we were starting rehearsals only a week later ! |
| 5 | ‘ It was good quality stuff , good to work on and I gradually worked my way up to being one of the house engineers and it took off from there . ’ |
| 6 | That 's something that we do have to work on and I ca n't emphasize it too strongly . |
| 7 | And er and they the the afternoon shift used to come on and I used to have to carry all these checks across then , the yard and take 'em and hang 'em up in the in the check-weigh on the pit top where they weighed the wagons of coals . |
| 8 | Erm somehow or other it 's going to come along and I think most people 's thinkings are that it will be shown as a tax item on the ticket as are the taxes in other countries |
| 9 | They asked me to come along and I thought I would because I thought children might respond more to me because they recognise me from television . |
| 10 | My cleaner used to come in and I 'd be in bed . |
| 11 | I went through these areas that I wanted to work in and I argued with Jeremy that we had n't allowed for ‘ things visual ’ , that we had a visual medium , that Britain was profoundly under-educated visually , so that we should actually use television for visual education and he fell for this . |
| 12 | Erm , I went on a diet last year , to one of these clubs and , within record time got to the weight I was supposed to be , calorie counting and then I had to come off and I found for weeks after feelings of terrible guilt if I ate |
| 13 | It was just a reflex — I knew it had to come off and I did n't want them all fussing about it . |
| 14 | and then I was trying to come out and I started to pull out into a gap and Brian said oh know , do n't pull out I said oh okay , he said the thing is your fairly tight so your gon na have to come out slowly so you need a bigger gap than otherwise . |
| 15 | She asked me to come round and I told her about you not showing up . |
| 16 | and they had all these great pads you know and I had all these maternity pads because I needed them you know I had to pad up and I had to and I felt so embarrassed |
| 17 | But now , I think , there are signs that er things are beginning to pick up , certainly we 're being told things are beginning to pick up and I think probably as an office generally , we 're experiencing that upturn , although er every time we get some special job in , suddenly we think we are at the end of a recession and perhaps , you know , it 's the next job that really we ought to be looking to . |
| 18 | Two days before it , however , when we were running through some back moves , my back seemed to lock out and I could n't move freely at all . |
| 19 | We were very fortunate but I do remember the guns used to go off and I , when my so my son was born the , the guns were going off all the time from the castle . |
| 20 | After an hour or two of observing the various shapes and sizes of mouths crammed with teacake the novelty began to wear off and I felt a bilious attack coming on . |
| 21 | . And when I was beginning to grow up and I used to visit her . |
| 22 | When we were flying over Holland I did steel myself to look out and I remember seeing where miles of land had been submerged under sea water to keep the Germans out , and houses , trees and roads were still under water . |
| 23 | I started to look around and I put my hand up and it was lying at the back of my collar |
| 24 | I 've just got the buttons to put on and I did n't have any wool and I thought what shall I start knitting , jumpers and things for school cos she starts the middle school in September |
| 25 | Erm and that you know I wrote to , I , I discussed that with Alan as a problem but then I took it away with the pro forma that says and you , now the target pro forma 's got columns you 've got to fill in and I |
| 26 | had a message saying the mailer was about to shut down and I did n't want to lose what I 'd typed in . |
| 27 | Got a bloody assignment to give in and I forgot I lost the bloody address ! |
| 28 | but briar to that we 've got this game show , you know , a bit like er Blind Date and I mean I ca n't stand them any way , and I 'm thinking I have n't got the patience in the morning when I 've got dinners to put up and I 've got them to get going |
| 29 | to give up and I thought I do n't want to fail on my own so I wo n't even attempt and then I erm I joined this project , and that was enough , I think , to keep me off . |
| 30 | Tumbleweed hesitated and turned as if to go back and I put my arm round his shoulders . |