Example sentences of "and [v-ing] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aunt Nessy had been upstairs , but hearing voices she came down , and seeing me ran towards me , as lightly and softly as a little bouncing ball , her eyes full of love and welcome . |
| 2 | Heaving and struggling I managed to close the door , but it kept opening again , weakened by its storm-fractured clasp . |
| 3 | It ai n't fair , bein' kind to me and gettin' me obligated . |
| 4 | Think it must have been all the cleaning and dusting I did . " |
| 5 | Coo that was creaking and twisting I thought ah |
| 6 | I ought to have stopped you in the beginning — I ought to have walloped you good and hard instead of hiding the things and pretending I did n't know anything about it . |
| 7 | and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that |
| 8 | ‘ We arrived back at Blackpool and after the usual checks with Special and refuelling I went over to the waiting ambulance to join the reception committee . |
| 9 | It was then still dark , and knowing I had a full day 's motoring ahead of me , I made an attempt to return to sleep . |
| 10 | I got full marks for composition at school by cribbing the life of Albert Schweitzer and claiming I wanted to be a missionary when I grew up . |
| 11 | ‘ But then you discovered how , for two years , I 'd been concealing the knowledge of your son from you , ’ Ashley broke in harshly , ‘ and telling me went out of the window . |
| 12 | The clean channel springs into life first , and with the absolute minimum of fuss and fiddling I had some sparkly clean sounds to play with . |