Example sentences of "and [adv] i [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where is Andrew ? ’ and eventually I can tell them and Mrs Gould gives a strange little shuddering cry and Mr Gould tells her to get the people in the house and phone for an ambulance and runs away down the path towards the river with the four Golden Labradors barking excitedly behind him . |
| 2 | , but when they asked us to go , you know , I mean they two seats to spare and old Bert would n't speak and came and said would you two like to go , he 's on the committee , you see so he went and mentioned it to Lionel and Lionel got them out and said would you like to go and right I 'll put your name down so |
| 3 | We won for a third time at Zandvoort , the first grand prix of the season : apart from the prize money , that moved us up a scale on the start money and suddenly I could see our way through the rest of the season . |
| 4 | Did you never think , ‘ Here 's something that 's been neglected and so I 'll step in and begin collecting this ’ ? |
| 5 | And so I 'll see you when we get there Francis . |
| 6 | Yes it it 's Lary , it 's sort of like someone insults you like they er you 've only got four toes and so I 'll say that 's well Lary ! |
| 7 | A former colleague , and the wife of a senior executive is coming to have lunch with me tomorrow and so I might raise the thing with her ! |
| 8 | We rented a plot of land and so I would have to take the meal out to my husband at mid-day . |
| 9 | He unites us to Christ , he gives life , he renews us , he calls us to serve I think these are all variations on the theme that Mr has in mind , and so I would resist this and hope the assembly will . |
| 10 | And so I would say that the whole thing , the figures that I 'm proposing , er and the consequences for both Leeds and Bradford er would be in fact to maintain a balanced strategy for urban regeneration . |
| 11 | This book was born out of the Channel 4 Television series of the same name , and so I would like to thank my friend and colleague Susan Eatwell Conte , with whom the original idea was developed and who produced the series . |
| 12 | And so I would like to discount all this talk about the need to cut down on commuting . |
| 13 | Yes Mr Chairman erm I understand the motive behind this proposal resolution but I think the mover perhaps is unaware of what 's actually going on and have to decide and so I would like to speak against this resolution and I think the constructive thing to do so we do n't send the wrong messages would be to er I , I will move an amendment er and I will explain what I 'm doing as I speak . |
| 14 | And there 's a section on the form which asks candidates to fill in their interests and it 's in that section that a candidate puts over their own personality , and so I would ask people who are applying to think very carefully before filling that section in , and to be both broad in what they say , that is to include all their interests , but also to be very specific as well . |
| 15 | ‘ And so I shall tell him . ’ |
| 16 | You have come to ask and so I must tell you . |
| 17 | And so I must ask you again to allow me to inspect the morning 's mails . ’ |
| 18 | I always knew I would be apprenticed to Joe as soon as I was old enough , and so I used to spend most of the day helping him in the forge . |
| 19 | At one time he , he lived at , they lived at but er er she was a widow and she was ninety but she was very good to us and , but we had er , we had apartments but there was a lock on both sides of the door , you know what I mean , we were quite self-contained and we had er er a narrow stairs and because of the war I could n't , you could n't er , I used to scrub the stairs down because you could n't buy carpet in those days , you see because of the war and to the shortage of stuff and so I used to keep those stairs nice and , we had a , a , we went , as we went up these stairs erm it , I suppose originally , you see , it would have been back stairs for the servants , you see , in the hall and this old lady used to go in and if ever she had the doctor she used to ask me if I would go and sit with her and hold her hand while the doctor came , you see . |
| 20 | ‘ One day , he would tell me , I would be in the record books and so I should remain ageless . |
| 21 | ‘ And so I should think ! ’ exclaimed Elizabeth Woodville approvingly , turning to address her daughters . |
| 22 | And so I should do you because you shave under your armpits and maybe you would have a baby and that would spite your father . ’ |
| 23 | So far I 've really enjoyed my life well no major complaints anyway , and so I 'd like to bring my children up here enjoying their life as well . |
| 24 | An overwhelming number of you are keen to attend formal reunions and so I will make it a priority to get them off the ground . |
| 25 | All of these controls are multi-function and so I will withold all attempts at explanation until we turn the machine on ! |
| 26 | But , alas , one 's head must be permitted to rule , and so I will say only this : a little house where I may be safe , with an income to enable me at least to enjoy the comforts of life , if not its luxuries . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm a storyteller , and so I can show readers that people think in a certain way , and suggest to readers that under those circumstances they might thing in the same way . |
| 28 | When we move in here , we get this guy come along to look at it , he say well this machine the er the Germans erm they 've really the pump is th is really easy to go , and so I can change your pump for you but l in your washing machine washing machine . |
| 29 | Er , yes I am a person who uses public transport and I believe in it very much , but I must say that erm its very , very inconvenient , I have to rely on three different forms of public transport to get to my work and it takes twice as long as it would as if I , if I could go by car and so I can see the , the attraction of , of going by car and there are many improvements that could be made where I live for instance in , in Glasgow so that you would only have one change and not constantly shuttling to and fro between stations and buses and so forth . |
| 30 | This is the kind of thing that we really ought to be addressing because this actually addresses the safety of people in this county , not only the safety of people , this addresses the safety of property as well and there 's no disagreement about the fact that this enormous development that 's happened over the last few years in an area where you 've got a regular traffic snarl-ups mean that you have got a potential disaster there on your hands and we 're jolly lucky we have n't any more serious incidents than we 've had already and so I can see no reason why these two mo these two amendments should n't both happily be accepted though I 'm very cynical about the number of times we 've spent the airport money already and sooner or later we 've obviously got to actually seriously address that but the important thing is that we do all take it seriously and it seems that we all do now take it seriously . |