Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean they only had their door there and letting in draughts and them running in and out you see we put that there look . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's always the case of black people having to go mainstream to be accepted , instead of us doing our shit how we wan na do it and them coming over and taking a look , ’ says Roger D. ‘ We 're doing it for ourselves now . |
| 3 | I hate that , I really do , thank God I 'm at boarding school cos I hate , the worst bit is like when they get , I remember when I was at day school and them coming home from the parents ' evening and I was |
| 4 | Like Ricky and me clinging on to the past , thought Daisy . |
| 5 | When she first stood in for Terry Wogan she insisted , ‘ I love standing in for Wogan but I 'm honestly not looking for The Sue Lawley Show with my name in lights and me swooping down a staircase . ’ |
| 6 | talking about condoms and me throwing up and all this . |
| 7 | She probably heard the telly , and me moving around . ’ |
| 8 | Lasting impressions so far : the sun ( miraculously ) shining on the slopes of Dalwhinnie , far in the north , on the first leg of the journey ; stumbling across Drew from the World Cup holiday in a motorway café somewhere in England in the middle of the night ; breakfast and mineral water with Claire ( oh , it was good to see her ) in an Italian cafe near London Victoria ; people throwing up all over the joint on the Seacat crossing to Boulogne ( and me staggering about , legs way out of control , on the deck , getting soaked by the spray , saltwater taste in the mouth , and a rainbow arcing on top of the water behind the catamaran ) ; complaining English and American tourist ( ‘ It 's ridiculous that we have to go through customs — why do we have to go through customs anyway ? … ) ; terrible fatigue on the train to Paris , and temperamental French men shouting and swearing at each other in the aisle ; relief at finding Angela 's flat in Paris ; difficult negotiation of the very narrow stairwell , finally finding her way at the top on the 6th floor ; food , and wine , and a shower , and a bed-settee for the night ; Japanese tourists at Notre Dame , and a man announcing his state of poverty and homelessness on the Métro — ‘ ‘ . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , I told myself , the success of Aunt Louise and me living together hung on such fragile things as unselfishness and the making of adjustments ; and with shame I led my thoughts towards all those people living squashed together in real discomfort and privation . |
| 10 | The memory of lightning flaring between the cracks in the boards and me pushing home the four-inch nails with numb fingers arrived simultaneous with the patter of descending footsteps … |
| 11 | And me turning about like a drowning fish in a mesh of shadows drawing round . |
| 12 | And me feeling so angry with her , and sorry for her at the same time . |
| 13 | As he ducks he has Des diving for his legs and me closing in , and this is the moment we all discover the benefits of my upbringing because like a promising cadet I 'd left the pistol 's safety on . |
| 14 | as if I had n't got enough on my plate with Tim throwing a mid-life crisis and Phil doing the disturbed adolescent bit-now if you please Suzanne comes in at three-thirty in the morning , and me lying there sick with worry , she having never thought to phone , and London with rapists on every street corner or so one 's told . |
| 15 | But now it was like being on the launch pad — the craft standing on its end with the nose upwards and me sitting there facing upwards being pulled down into the back of the seat by gravity . |
| 16 | dad , dad did n't say nothing about all evening just pop in for an hour , but I could n't see Stuey and me sitting there disturb him , scared |
| 17 | How about you and me steppin' out ? |
| 18 | I can imagine you turning right in one of the lanes around here , and me going straight on into some duck pond or other . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You must be dead beat with everything — and me going on and on . ’ |
| 20 | So when Esquire ask for their 2,000 words next month about the connection between the Croatian Winter Olympics team uniform and Public Enemy , or the brutal point of Michael Barrymore , I can somehow contrive it that I end up writing about how it feels waiting for Maddy 's first smile , about the wonder of her 35th day , about her growing up and me growing up . |
| 21 | And erm so er er if people do that And er this this businessman , this week , he he rang and he he was sending messages via the secretary , instead of getting on the phone to me and and me finding out what there was , he finally he s he said There 'll be about an hour 's work . |
| 22 | The seating inside was as follows : Russell , the McLaren girl and I riding backwards , across from Braden , Mrs. Favor and Dr. Favor . |
| 23 | ‘ I said that this was not Shelley and I ganging up in competition against them : it was just two businesswomen trying to make more business . |
| 24 | When I was about 14 , I remember my sister and I pledging quite seriously to grow up and defy convention ; to be women who still wore jeans and long hair at 30 . |
| 25 | I still remember that Christmas Day — the inspector and I standing there in the drizzle — the city of Belfast enjoying an uneasy period of quietness with the men of violence possibly challenged by their memories of the Christmas Message and declaring a truce [ for Christmas only ] . |
| 26 | ‘ In that case , why are Dr Darnell and I walking around in one piece ? |
| 27 | I 've seen the video tape of Tom and I coming down the 18th . |
| 28 | Edward clearly adored her ; I had no wish to hurt him , so perhaps things were best as they were — he and I working alone . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've had time to think it well and truly through in what has been the longest three quarters of an hour of my life between phone call and you getting here — and it just has to be you . |
| 30 | This speaker and others commented on the differences in the Jamaican and British types of Creole : The sound , the way [ they speak ] — it 's more or less the same , it is the same , same words the same everyfing , but — the way my parents speak it , it does n't sound affected , put it that way , it 's more like me and you speaking now , it 's more fluent , and not so harsh — but when we speak it 's sort of h-heavy tongue , I du n no . |