Example sentences of "i [vb past] and [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 'd done as I asked and left me alone then none of it would have happened . ’ |
| 2 | worried about them being so far as they 've the only child , and talked them into come down and live with us , so then I applied and got a move to just after it was built , which was a four bedroom house . |
| 3 | I applied and got the details but never bothered sending off the application form because I did n't think I was capable of doing what was asked . |
| 4 | I happened to see the post advertised with OBEX so I applied and got the job . ’ |
| 5 | Alec and I lowered and carried Father by turns . |
| 6 | Then I skidded and slanted through into Public Baths Surf . |
| 7 | I schemed and schemed to get that key , but Irina was too clever for me . |
| 8 | I GAZED AND GAZED , BUT LITTLE THOUGHT |
| 9 | I made and ate supper , washed up , then watched the changing view of evening from the haven of the cottage window , and went early to bed . |
| 10 | Then I fainted and fell to the floor . |
| 11 | It seems that Antonietta was nearby when I fainted and arranged for me to be taken back to her house . |
| 12 | I was to be one of these victims , and I had to go afternoon after hot afternoon to learn to embroider in a room that even with the windows open was almost completely airless , trying to keep my eyes open while I stitched and listened to endless gossip . |
| 13 | I argued and pleaded … |
| 14 | I argued and complained , and refused fifty times , but in the end he forced me to agree . |
| 15 | There I snored and whinnied and gnashed for nearly three hours , awaking refreshed and raring to go at a little after one . |
| 16 | I lived and breathed that show . ’ |
| 17 | First thing , I went to the boarding-house where I lived and put on my suit . |
| 18 | How nice to have rose coloured spectacles which must be worn by Carole Hedger ; five years in Spain without Carole 's spectacles , the Spain in which I lived and worked appeared very different . |
| 19 | I fret often for the days when I lived and worked in the countryside , but one sad sight used to be that of herds of demented idiots vandalising the scenery and terrorising nature in their delirious lust for an innocent animal 's life . |
| 20 | His father and I owned and ran the Ontario Raceworld magazine for years before we sold it to a conglomerate . ’ |
| 21 | I beamed and slugged . |
| 22 | And one day , with jarring abruptness , I was twenty-seven , and the little inner voice stopped jeering and sneering at every man I met and began to whimper and bleat . |
| 23 | I met and married my husband just at the point when I was beginning to apply for senior registrar posts . |
| 24 | I met and talked with English scientists , and learnt many useful things from them . |
| 25 | Classically , the majority of the women I met and worked with in Dublin in those days were lesbians . |
| 26 | Later he became a close family friend and I envied and admired him , for he got to one remote and interesting place after another — Somaliland , Abyssinia , Kurdistan , Burma and China . |
| 27 | Now that my wages were no longer required to subsidise the café , I scrimped and saved and redoubled my efforts on the clubs , saving the money for furniture and carpets . |
| 28 | I arose and spoke and told them that I could not and would not do it . |
| 29 | Eventually , having decided that calling out the Cave Rescue for a simple case of overeating would n't look good in the newspapers , I recovered and got to the lane by Clay Pits Plantation that leads to Victoria Cave . |
| 30 | I agreed and arranged to pick it up the next morning on the way . |