Example sentences of "and [verb] [conj] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already , and it is hardly May , I have wandered down to the County Ground at Taunton to see old chums , and some not so old , and to see if I any longer belong . |
| 2 | ‘ You must take me as you find me ’ means ‘ I 'm going to carry on and behave as I always do even if it does n't suit you . ’ |
| 3 | And I had spent a total of three winters playing Grade cricket in the city and found that I really liked the place and the people . |
| 4 | I once visited a pensioner in my village and mentioned that I occasionally like jam but never make it myself because I do not eat it often enough . |
| 5 | All my abdominal bloating symptoms disappeared as well as the indigestion and heartburn that I always used to suffer . |
| 6 | He turned my face to his and kissed them away — overpowering me with such a potent mixture of excitement and tenderness and yearning that I almost swooned . |
| 7 | ‘ I have only to beg your pardon , Miss Kyte , and confess that I entirely misread the situation . |
| 8 | But I thought of the snow , the speed of the train , and the rifle , and decided that I still had no intention of trying to escape . |
| 9 | PLAYER : I can come and go as I please . |
| 10 | ‘ Since this is my boat , I would remind you I can come and go as I please . ’ |
| 11 | I hate to burst your royal bubble , Excellency , but I 'm free to come and go as I please . ’ |
| 12 | You see David , what he 's saying to your dad this morning , let's get a meeting and go but I just feel that , I just , what 's the point of going for an argument . |
| 13 | Screen-writer , you see , demands of studio , absolute solitude essential , come and go as I please , often not there , vagaries of genius and its errant locomotion , several forged references available from heads of Oxbridge colleges , principals of Shakespeare Schools , even one on House of Commons paper . |
| 14 | I used to watch him sleep , wondering what bloody crimes lay in his past , and knowing that I alone protected him from a horrible death . |