Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Can I just go down the shops , Kelly and me are just going get something ?
2 I think it will succeed although it will take ages , for he is fearfully shy , and I am likewise affected .
3 I look through the window — the streets , the sky the colour of wet sugar — and I am simply stumped by this , dumbfounded , non-plussed .
4 Well , gentlemen — the evening 's business is now concluded , and I am hereby closing the meeting . ’
5 When I walk on it the whole thing starts to move and I am soon covered in the grey dust I am stirring up ; it fills my nostrils and triggers a memory that links the smell with rock climbing .
6 And I am also thinking of the identification of Rahila Khan — a novelist supposedly Asian and female — as an Anglican vicar ; and of the attempt to thwart a biography by the Englishman Ian Hamilton of the American J. D. Salinger , whose novels tell the story of his life , but who does not want anyone else to do so , preferring to keep his facts to himself .
7 This time it was a police sergeant , and when Joe went upstairs the sergeant said : " I am looking for Wg Cdr Mahaddie , and I am also looking for one of my constables , " Joe foolishly replied : We might have a wing commander here but we do n't have your constable . "
8 The Government have a duty and I am here to answer it — — if the House will give me an opportunity .
9 As a result ( and I am here quoting from the judgment of Mann L.J. , ante , p. 557C–F ) :
10 I am sitting with Deee-Lite and a couple of their American press agents in a modest Manhattan restaurant called The Savoy , and I am already feeling unqualified for inclusion in this company .
11 Ive been off and I am presently ploughing through 80 odd messages .
12 I honestly do not see anything wrong with that , and I am not complaining about it .
13 She is pleasant enough but how reliable I can not say and I am not depending on her for the birth .
14 ‘ He said ‘ it 's not bad , is it ’ , but I have seen it before at different levels and I am not looking at it too much at this stage .
15 And I am not suggesting that learning to relax will change a single external circumstance ; what it will change is the effect those external circumstances have on your mind and body .
16 Whilst that may be interesting ( and I am not suggesting that we should refrain totally from such activity ) , something more is needed if we are really to approach the Earth and the earth spirit with any depth and with any hope of useful results .
17 I appreciate the difficulties that my right Hon. Friend faces and I am not criticising him , but would it not be a good idea to consider a combination of more all-day European supply days such as the one next Thursday , longer debates-late at night , if necessary the sending of more business upstairs to Committee whenever a particular document makes that relevant and also , once a month , having a longer Friday afternoon session so that European enthusiasts , such as my Hon. Friend the Member for Southend , East ( Mr. Taylor ) , myself and others can take part .
18 I appreciate the difficulties that my right Hon. Friend faces and I am not criticising him , but would it not be a good idea to consider a combination of more all-day European supply days such as the one next Thursday , longer debates , late at night , if necessary the sending of more business upstairs to Committee whenever a particular document makes that relevant and also , once a month , having a longer Friday afternoon session so that European enthusiasts , such as my Hon. Friend the Member for Southend , East ( Mr. Taylor ) , myself and others can take part .
19 His mates nodded and one said , ‘ I agree with George , I 've never known such a feeling of evil and I am not risking my neck for anyone . ’
20 A ‘ hard case ’ — and I am not disputing that for the Bland parents it is indeed a very hard case — has been found which can , and I believe will , be skilfully exploited to justify the ‘ dignified ’ removal of a subtly-expanding range of people who will be deemed to be living lives which are below some ‘ expert 's ’ criterion of an acceptable standard .
21 First thing is to make sure that you get an opportunity to discuss it and I agree other people who actually res responded in seem to collect the fee and I am not paid to collect the fee to try to make it very difficult for people to respond but nevertheless the numbers that we , I think in terms of other areas , other areas , the response that we got it is a bit ironic though to sit here in the afternoon having listened in the morning to a lovely discussion which was agonising three hundred , five hundred thousand for on traffic calming .
22 Mr. Win : Unlike Conservative Members , I am an admirer of the SDA and I am not attacking it in any way .
23 And I am not planning to seduce you . ’
24 ‘ We do fly to St Kitts from Antigua but we serve many small islands and I am not going to say which one is involved . ’
25 ‘ It will start all sorts of speculation that we are getting back together and I am not going for that . ’
26 ‘ It 's been a long time and I am not going to rush it .
27 Much more can , has been and should be written about teachers ' collective action , and I am not going to pursue it here .
28 Cardwell then added : ‘ I am going to kick your head in and I am not going to stop until you are dead . ’
29 And I am not going to be your mama ! ’
30 My time is extremely valuable , and I am not going to be kept waiting here while people like patients take up five or 10 minutes when I shall not be earning at a rate that would put the salary of Members of Parliament to shame .
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