Example sentences of "i [verb] and it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was attracted to it because the script made me laugh and it 's a splendid play . |
| 2 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 3 | I mean probably women are more daring you know because they 've got less to lose in a way I suppose if you if you 're not a councillor you can be more er you know or if you 're not worried for your job or you know or if there is n't a definite structure I suppose in the lodge there 's the definite people that always say the same things you know what I mean and it 's it 's less easy to be spontaneous in that situation I would think you know . |
| 4 | You know I 've been I would n't bother showing them some that worked , I 'll always pick the case that had some hiccup on it , so the basic skill you were trying to show them never worked out , you know what I mean and it 's well do n't worry about that , if it was a normal case |
| 5 | No anybody can get in I mean and it 's open seven days a week . |
| 6 | I ca n't afford it to , apart from that I mean and it was |
| 7 | I checked and it is forty nine ninety five |
| 8 | But coming back , we moved again as I say and it was in the er winter . |
| 9 | The price was £12,500 if I recall and it was a wonderful moment when it went up . ’ |
| 10 | Yeah I know and it 's it 's not my fault I mean like if I still have the proper lessons every week , which I do n't seem to get . |
| 11 | My Lord making my main submissions to your Lordship , erm I submitted and it is position that there is no distinction between public and private acts , the thicken in the board , both the act and the central fund by the law should be taken as valid in the interim if your Lordship is minded to make a reference unless strong evidence of invalidity is produced , so your Lordship if you make a reference it needs to form a view as to the strength of the |
| 12 | but I looked and it was actually |
| 13 | And I thought and it 's light out there . |
| 14 | But I think we should , it 's like today , where was I , Battersea area , I think and it 's the first shop I 'd seen that actually had Chinese model manikins in the window , I thought they were sw pretty unusual . |
| 15 | So I did and it 's very strange I remember toddling off with this little chap and er and Miss said , Who is this then ? or words to that effect . |
| 16 | ‘ I did and it was splendid . ’ |
| 17 | I did and it was one of the reasons I lost my seat in the Dail . ’ |
| 18 | Well I sort of said to him as well about , I said and it 's ridiculous , just because I said the bedding had been lo in the loft |
| 19 | fucking laugh , so I said to her no I said it is this week Julie I said and it 's towards the end of the week but I 'll ring you by the weekend and let you know , well of course come the Thursday morning I have n't seen Val , and I was ever so upset because it really the end of the line money wise , I could n't do any more |
| 20 | A chicken no a king prawn korma I had and it was lovely . |
| 21 | I thought that if I ran and it was a coronary , it should have got worse , but I ‘ ve run round the block and it has n't , so it must be indigestion . ’ |
| 22 | We set everything in monotype , and all these display headline faces copied out of old type books and then I left and it was almost like people were saying ‘ now what ’ , erm ‘ what are you going to do after that ? ’ and I said ‘ what do you mean ? ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ I have and it is , and I 'm mad , because I hate your damned machines . ’ |
| 24 | I do , I mean I do that when I erm , y , you 're so excited about getting a gain on the appointment and you think , why he 's got about five in there , and then you think there 's a big space between them , but you think , no I 'm not going onto next week because you might not be interested then , but you do , you end up putting it down so they , so it 's still in their mind and that 's the , the way I work and it 's probably wrong , it 's probably wrong , I mean I do n't |
| 25 | He wanted what I wanted and it was n't love or commitment or really even friendship ( although he called it that ) . |