Example sentences of "and i [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Gloria and me went to see him once , ’ said Dot . |
| 2 | I remember a tear running down my cheek and me trying to smile it away . |
| 3 | I used to bring them home and then , well father and me used to slaughter them on the Monday , you see and perhaps a bullock on the Monday and every Wedn every Monday morning the men from the farm , cos he had a farm , you see , used to bring perhaps twenty bullocks up through the street and he used to pick one out to kill , every Monday . |
| 4 | Mum and I go to see him sometimes , and we agree that he is a much nicer person than he used to be . |
| 5 | The introduction is good afternoon ladies and gentlemen my name is I 'd like to talk to you about flying and I hope to persuade you to come along on Saturday and take part in some flying . |
| 6 | He has done some showing and I hope to show him again next year , but feel that his extensively pink muzzle detracts from his appearance . |
| 7 | I know the time is slipping and I hope to get it done in the next two weeks . |
| 8 | My elder daughter has read ‘ Some Other Rainbow ’ in which you receive honourable mention and I hope to read it soon . |
| 9 | We work on Saturdays and Sundays and I like to think we do everything properly and never let anyone down , ’ he says . |
| 10 | She 's a worker , and I like to think she takes after her parents . ’ |
| 11 | And I like to think I 've learned my lessons : |
| 12 | And I like to keep it that way still if I can , because you can make yourself a lot of work over some small incident sometimes . |
| 13 | David always notices when I 'm made-up or dressed in something new and I like to please him . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm here for one reason — to do a job , and I mean to carry it through to the best of my ability , with or without your approval . |
| 15 | In a few weeks time , I hope to get a short spell of leave , and I mean to devote it exclusively to literary work . |
| 16 | You marked an appeal to the Court of Session in the above case on and I write to inform you of the necessary steps you should now take . |
| 17 | But now Ellen the time I have long awaited has come and I write to tell you that an Italian maidservant by name of Gigia who is travelling home to Florence having been in Scotland with a family who are friends of the Brownings is to come to you to collect Oreste and take him to Liverpool where she will be joined by Mr Ogilvy and from whence they will sail for Italy . |
| 18 | They all require a great deal of input from the teacher and I write to encourage you in the task which lies ahead . |
| 19 | I have no hard and fast views on the matter and I undertake to consider it , but there are no immediate plans to do as the hon. and learned Gentleman suggests . |
| 20 | Thing is , I 've got my heater right in front of my wardrobe , and I 've to move it so someone 'll open my bloody wardrobe . |
| 21 | I turned the switch and I regret to inform you that out of the loudspeaker came a lot of old Irishmen singing maudlin songs . |
| 22 | I am looking for a 2hr 8min pace and I prepared to take it up if it falls below that . ’ |
| 23 | Then she asked me what I was going to do and I had to say I wanted to go with her . |
| 24 | I was with him , holding the drip inside the bag , and I had to wrench him free and get out before we ran out of air . |
| 25 | and then I had to work with these people and I knew that that was the kind of way that they were operating and I had to teach them by the way I worked but in fact it was okay to admit that we do make mistakes . |
| 26 | I knitted myself a dress from that which started off fawn , but we ran out of that colour and I had to finish it off in blue . |
| 27 | I read it through as four pounds , and Brenda next to me is saying , fourteen and I had to re-read it , it , course it 's fourteen . |
| 28 | Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there . |
| 29 | So they had me as continuity and I got the job and it was a bit of a struggle because I 'd always been traffic , traffic at work but this was a little bit different in that if you had to do more accountancy and I had to pick it up . |
| 30 | ‘ Funnily enough , I was doing a charity show two weeks ago to raise money for our local scouts and I had to sing it so I know there are four goolies in the song . ’ |