Example sentences of "and i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | My older brother and I immediately laid siege to our mother to let us go . |
| 32 | Bowie and I immediately , from that moment standing in the doorway , hit it off . |
| 33 | The footmen looked relieved to see me , and I immediately signalled them to get to their positions . |
| 34 | All this made me feel very much better and I immediately wrote my name up on the wall . |
| 35 | She wore a dark two-piece suit and a pert little hat with a feather that set it off well and I immediately was drawn to her . |
| 36 | As Chief Inspector of Accidents it was within my domain to agree or reject the proposal , so Geoffrey Holton telephoned me at my home that Sunday morning and I immediately agreed to the UK being responsible for the investigation . |
| 37 | I was n't really looking at the faces , as such , and I immediately felt drawn to one of the men . |
| 38 | And I eventually ended up with Jack Mason . ’ |
| 39 | Yes , I , I was in er , I 'm not sure , I , I think I was in the top class in the junior school and er , without boasting , I was a good scholar and I eventually passed to go to the Q M and me dad could n't afford to let me go . |
| 40 | Crawling on our stomachs , making use of every scrap of cover or depression , however slight , and remaining motionless whenever he looked in our direction , Abdullahi and I eventually reached the shelter of a low ridge . |
| 41 | ‘ Have been reading ’ , I realized even as I struggled to find somewhere to stand the strawboard in the darkness , makes a somewhat smaller claim than ‘ have read ’ , and I scarcely expect that my ‘ books ’ , to anyone outside the very restricted world of philosophical studies , are going to include the two on Spinoza ; all of which suggests a second-hand and partial acquaintance with my only other work , Natural Man . |
| 42 | It would be churlish to do anything other than welcome unreservedly the Secretary of State 's announcement , and I willingly do so . |
| 43 | At that time their midfield was Peters , Mullery and Perryman and I simply was n't good enough . |
| 44 | One of my horses , Firefly , has had a nasty cough , and it was so much worse today that 1 had to send for the vet ; and I simply had n't a moment . ’ |
| 45 | But then we had a spell of bad weather during haytiming , a difficult situation at the best of times , and I simply could not manage . |
| 46 | If I do it I must give at least ten pounds and I simply have n't got ‘ em . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ I only knew I was playing when we had our warm-up just before the kick-off , and I simply was n't prepared for starting the match . |
| 48 | The light was changing very rapidly and I simply ran out of time . |
| 49 | However , there was nothing I could do about it , and I simply had to accept the situation . |
| 50 | An and I simply add the ticks and see which comes out . |
| 51 | It was my job to go into it , and I simply did my job . |
| 52 | As I said , I 'd no idea he was the one who was threatening me and I simply thought I was well shot of him , quite frankly . ’ |
| 53 | Rob , you must have noticed — Luke and I simply do n't get along together , and there 's a limit to how much friction one can stand . ’ |
| 54 | I would tell you if I could , I promise you , but my story involves others and — and I simply can not in honour divulge it . ’ |
| 55 | ( I had a meeting of an advisory committee at the Bodleian at three , which was likely to be acrimonious and prolonged , and I simply had to buy something for the boys ' dinner first . ) |
| 56 | And I they were addressed to him and they were from the council and I simply said , er wrote on the outside erm no longer here , address not known . |
| 57 | By this time people were organising treks out of Burma and the chaplain 's wife begged me to take you three out by a plane leaving Shwebo next day , but you were all too sick , and so we stayed on and I hastily sewed boiler suits against mosquitoes if and when we could trek out . |
| 58 | And I hastily changed the subject . |
| 59 | There was , of course , no such recompense , and I later watched those Christian homes — hundreds of them , even the local Maronite church at Jiyeh — being dynamited to the ground and bulldozed into the earth . |
| 60 | People were encouraged to say as much as they wanted to in answer to these questions , and I later categorised their responses according to the kinds of consequences they envisaged : effects on children , effects on the community generally , and effects on them personally ( or their immediate families ) . |