Example sentences of "and i [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's an apprenticeship and I get a day off each week to go to school . ’ |
| 2 | Oh , dear , she thought , half an hour late , and I get a persecution complex — of course people were n't staring at her . |
| 3 | We visit the charming sheep and I get a chance to wear my wellingtons after all . |
| 4 | He shakes his head and I get a shiver , remembering just that gesture of his , repeated and repeated so that it became like a nervous tic after a while , back in Strathspeld , after Clare 's funeral in ‘ 89 ; a gesture of disbelief , refusal , non-acceptance . |
| 5 | I 'm 32 and I get a lot of shit for it . |
| 6 | ‘ They are entertaining and patient creatures and I get a lot of pleasure from them . |
| 7 | I think about Mr Jackson and I get a sort of uncomfortable feeling when I remember he was waiting for me at the house and I did n't come back . |
| 8 | I must have knocked it or something and I 'd a couple of shots left and I ought to have shot the swine but I could n't , not while he was sitting there killing himself laughing . |
| 9 | And I 'd a breath of fresh air . |
| 10 | See , Mum and I looked a bit up in my book |
| 11 | Tony and I dig a platform for the tent , lowering the snow by about seventy centimetres to give us a nice protective wall . |
| 12 | For example , we meet and I tell a joke ; we both laugh ; you respond with a joke ; we both laugh . |
| 13 | Sadly , I have n't finished it ; I have it in typescript and I hope a lot of editing will take place , but the plot is great . |
| 14 | I mean I remember when I went , first went to my cheap caravan site where there is n't a toilet and you have to walk to the toilets , and I remember a couple of times when I was little , shitting my pants on the way to the toilets , you know , cos I could n't hold it in . |
| 15 | Gombrich sombrely recalled hearing about Auschwitz while working at the BBC Monitoring Service during the war : ‘ They claimed at that time — I remember that as if it were yesterday — they claimed that at least five million people had been killed , and I remember a colleague of mine coming to me to check this figure , because it seemed impossible . |
| 16 | It was the sort of London garden which grew London Pride and smelt of snails but there was room to play cricket or French cricket on the grass ( You ca n't have five children and a nice lawn , as my Father sagely remarked ) and I remember a time when obstacle races round the gravelled path on our bicycles was popular with my sister and me . |
| 17 | And I like a man with lots of muscles and |
| 18 | I like Duane Eddy , and I like a guitar to sound twangy and hard and brittle . ’ |
| 19 | And I like a lot of the contemporary American rock groups . |
| 20 | Erm you know I like Georgian and I like a lot of other architecture but that I think has got tremendous character . |
| 21 | — Tim Loughton , of Battersea ‘ Now my name 's Binge and I like a party , but these parties are something else again . ’ |
| 22 | When I was at school and I got a row , my mother and father would assume I was in the wrong . |
| 23 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
| 24 | The balance I have put towards something for us both — a new continental quilt for our bed here — and I got a king sized one , as JOHN always seems to get it all , but this may be big enough to let me hang on to my side . |
| 25 | If you brought a bottle of white and I got a bottle of white ready , if I had n't opened it , I 'd open yours . |
| 26 | ‘ And I got a chicken , ’ he said , ‘ the kind you like ! ’ |
| 27 | So she got straight onto the DHSS and I got a grant for three single beds and bedding . |
| 28 | It 's got an electric fire and food in the cupboards , and I got a cat and a sleeping bag and all sorts . |
| 29 | And I got a badge . |
| 30 | Yeah , and I got a transfer in Toc H I 'm a district member now |