Example sentences of "and [adv] i [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
| 2 | ‘ I belong to the Duke of Gloucester Trust and eventually I persuaded the officials to try fitting one of my whistles . |
| 3 | When I wh went to Yorkshire , in , we lived at Leeds , I could n't get a job and eventually I got a job er in a electrical firm . |
| 4 | I swallow , throat dry , tears finally coming into my eyes and eventually I squeeze the words out : |
| 5 | But my hunch proved right , I came across a few likely looking names and phone numbers and eventually I found a breeder in Bow , East London , who had several barn owls , all brothers and sisters , who would be the perfect training age for me . |
| 6 | And eventually I found a job er as assistant to the er clerking to the rating officer , who had also been a member of t , who was a member of the chapel , and er knew I was looking for a job and er , I had n't written to him cos I did n't know this one was coming up . |
| 7 | I have most of them already and besides I enjoy the reputation of being the best teacher . |
| 8 | The white stubble on his fleshless jaw was a reproach to my twenty-four years and suddenly I felt an inadequate city-bred softie . |
| 9 | But then I got promoted at work and suddenly I had a salary to borrow against . |
| 10 | And so I follow a nervous , |
| 11 | The luff of the flying jib had begun to back and fill and so I let the ship 's head fall away . |
| 12 | This piece needed a simpler frame , and so I chose a fairly straightforward gold frame that would harmonise with , rather than detract from , the overall design . |
| 13 | ‘ But when I got behind the typewriter I thought , ‘ That ai n't gon na make a very good piece ’ and so I took the piss out of her something rotten . |
| 14 | And so I took the opportunity to describe in some detail conditions in the attic . |
| 15 | The trouble was I started wanting to play straight-ahead rock and heavy metal and so I left the traditional blues stuff on the back burner . |
| 16 | And so I left the old lady in her bride 's dress in the candle-light , with the dusty furniture around her . |
| 17 | Er and so I got the job like dead easy you see . |
| 18 | And he said not at all , not at all and I said well I do want the people to know that , you know we , although we tribute to of the lost lives in the two World Wars , we are now striving for peace and so I wound a few white poppies . |
| 19 | He did all the right things and so I had a way out . |
| 20 | I gave up work at the salon eight weeks before Isha was born and so I had the space and time to just do the hair work that I really wanted to do . |
| 21 | I needed to earn a bit of extra money when I went on the tour and so I became a professional wrestler in my spare time . |
| 22 | And so I became a beneficiary again of the orifice revolution . |
| 23 | And so I became a she-wolf myself , and rescued them and suckled them . |
| 24 | And so I became the single , visible manifestation of homosexuality in South Yorkshire . |
| 25 | Er and then I heard from Australia that they were going into the engineering exhibition in Melbourne and I offered them er a mobile display and they came back with one or two added ideas and so I changed the specification again . |
| 26 | And so I assembled an entourage of people — Pete Cornish , Dave Peterson , Lance Stadnyk — and I said ‘ Right , we want to get this happening . ’ |
| 27 | I could n't stand the thought of him seeing anyone else and so I did the only thing I could think of : I decided to spy on him . |
| 28 | Politically we are on a hiding to nothing in the long run and so I guess the only satisfactory way forward would be to leave badgers completely alone and compensate farmers in full for badger-related losses , including consequential losses . ’ |
| 29 | Fortunately Scotland has always had a fine reservoir of comic talent and so I found the idea of letting a Scottish company loose on these plays totally irresistible . |
| 30 | I had a huge living room that needed repainting and so I invited a few friends along , asked them to bring a paint-brush each and I supplied the food and drink . |