Example sentences of "the [noun prp] and i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In any case , Stephen 's mother uses Hilary as an excuse to stay on at the Manor and I want rid of her . ’
2 Well , the Dean and I took great joy in disabusing that person of that mistaken view .
3 Ya see , I just flew in from the States and I took your British Airways — my all-time favourite airline — and you know what they did ?
4 Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife
5 My friend Simon Jones was over from the States and I 'd promised him seats that night , and then forgotten all about it .
6 The Sheikha and I got in the back while the Sheikh took the wheel .
7 First Mrs Agnes McGuinness : ‘ My husband went out on the Saturday and I did n't see him again until the Sunday morning .
8 I hear a clattering in the air as McDunn gets out of the Jag and I look up over the trees into high , bright overcast .
9 Hassan , who was usually with him in Abu Dhabi as well as England , manoeuvred into the rear seat of the Mercedes and I took my place beside the young son who had long since graduated into a licensed driver .
10 ‘ I spent 12 years working in the NHS and I did n't come into politics to privatise it . ’
11 ‘ You 're proposing that you and Mercia and the Normans and I invade Wessex and drive out the Godwinssons again ?
12 the Normans and I think you 've got ta
13 Alistair Scott and John Shrewsbury were kind enough to give me the opportunity to work with the BBC and I hope to have the privilege again .
14 Cos I took her , but I hired the Granada and I drove her there .
15 So she got straight onto the DHSS and I got a grant for three single beds and bedding .
16 We found Dod 's van in the NCP and I explained to Kim that as he only had one passenger seat , the two of us had better travel in the cold and bare , unheated back along with Dod 's drum kit .
17 You know , went to the Esso and I went all wrong and I could n't le , I went down a no en
18 My friend the Mason and I have come to an agreement .
19 Sandy was going to the US and I asked if I could carry for him the next year , but everybody was asking so I did n't get very far .
20 I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped
21 They erm wa when we to we , we were staying at the Claremont and I do n't , oh , I think we just decided we 'd find a cup of coffee .
22 When it goes , I mean I 'm speaking as a resident of The Stow and I know there 's lot 's of complaints and shop keepers and er people in the flats and that round you know the shops there and you do feel a bit intimidated if you walk through The Stow at night .
23 anybody then he wants me to the Thursday and I said yeah that 's alright .
24 You see I 've been entrusted with the task of getting him safely back to the Reich and I 've little more than three weeks to do it in . ’
25 Bill Thompson of the Leader-Post and I cadged a ride with Sergeant Doherty and his redcoated men to Briercrest and took part in the search for Janotte .
26 I had n't seen her since you went to America , and then about six months ago I was staying the week-end with the Coleworthys and I thought I had better drop in to see the old girl in case she heard I was in the neighbourhood and took offence "
27 Ford knew they had to come up with a winner in the Mondeo and I think they have done just that .
28 JTR and I parted company at Rothesay ; he to go on to Arran on the Iona and me to zigzag over there via Wemyss Bay and Ardrossan ferries .
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