Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [subord] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just to set the scene and seeing as I have n't been in the plot too much lately . |
| 2 | And seeing as I have n't got an account with them I do n't think they 'll say well you can have some anyway . |
| 3 | Because I 'm going out with people from work tonight and seeing as I 'm so it 'll look a bit off . |
| 4 | My boyfriend said he would stay at home and be the househusband and look after the children and do co co , the cleaning and cooking if I stayed at work . |
| 5 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 6 | I had no such skill , but I was learning , and it was an infinite satisfaction to keep Joanna moving , and going where I wanted her to go , with the sweep . |
| 7 | And stop that damn blinking and twitching when I 'm talking to you , boy . |
| 8 | After six sessions I was ready for the test , driving from Eaton Park , on all types of roads , sticking religiously to speed limits and observing as I drove . |
| 9 | ‘ George Courtney is special and sent me a letter congratulating me and saying if I need any help , just to give him a ring . |
| 10 | Notwithstanding we do not believe as we 've already said that flows of traffic justify and coming if I may er before Mr answers to give him time to think about it , to the figures from Mr . |
| 11 | a few years ago when my sons were teenagers I had some nice dripping and I said , you 've never had bread and dripping and I gave them some , I put a bit of salt on , I said , try this , I loved a bit of med bread and dripping when I was your age . |
| 12 | But my efforts at poking her rear end were fruitless ; she faced me all the time , wide-mouthed and growling as I circled . |
| 13 | If I were the Secretary of State for Social Security , which I am not , my nightmare would be the early morning phone call from the Department 's press office saying that an eviction is taking place that day , that the media and particularly the television cameras will be there and asking whether I would be there and what were the Government 's comments . |
| 14 | Here in Devon I can obtain a variety of inert rocks without abandoning my conservationist principles , simply by visiting various quarries and asking if I can pick over their rubbish piles . |
| 15 | I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will not accuse me of ranting and raving as I am always the sweet face of reason . |
| 16 | I 've always enjoyed talking and arguing since I was a kid . |
| 17 | I can honestly say that every audience I 've ever had has been very good , except , perhaps , for a school for the mentally handicapped we visited once where one or two started turning round and talking whilst I was speaking . |