Example sentences of "and [conj] i [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | and if I 'd got something big and heavy you used to say to me bring it down and put it in my big machine . |
| 32 | I appreciate the trouble you 've gone to with me and if I 've said anything … ’ |
| 33 | And if I 've hung his coats up once I 've hung up , I 've hung them up a hundred times , he 's got a coat hanger on the back of the coat hook on the back of the door |
| 34 | The injury has got worse and if I continue playing it wo n't get any better . ’ |
| 35 | I will give half my belongings to the poor , and if I have cheated anyone , I will pay him back four times as much ’ , that Jesus exclaims , ‘ Salvation has come to this house today … ’ |
| 36 | ‘ Everything here will be available to Mr Riddle 's lawyer and if I have to take anything away I shall give you a receipt . ’ |
| 37 | Busking was undignified , he said , and if I wanted to do it , then fine , but not anywhere near him , thank you very much . |
| 38 | ‘ And if I wanted to promote someone , I would choose the person who had worked well in the community . ’ |
| 39 | I sat alone in a compartment , coming to terms with the fact that I was free at last and if I wanted to put my feet up on the opposite seat or take off my tie , no one in uniform had the right to bustle in and call me Airwoman in that well-known disapproving voice . |
| 40 | We all know how easy that is to do , and if I say hold it |
| 41 | I know what you girls are like , you say you 'll just have it short to see what it looks like , and then you say Pedro at the salon wo n't let you grow it just for the moment , and then you say you 've got to look your best for some wedding or other and you ca n't go with it straggly and then you end up not growing it again and if I do n't mention it every week you think I 've learned to like it and if I do mention it every week you think I 'm nagging so I do n't mention it and I 'm stuck with it . |
| 42 | And if I do anger you , what are you going to do with me , eh , have me beaten to an inch of my life ? |
| 43 | But she knew that any attempt at this sort of seductive sophistication would be laughably incongruous coming from her quiet , ordinary little self , and in any case she had made no serious plans to leave , so she simply said steadily , ‘ That 's very nice of you , Dr Russell , but I have n't fully worked out my plans yet , and if I do leave I 'll probably sign on with a nursing agency . |
| 44 | My free time is taken up by the hairdresser and manicurist — and if I do escape them , I have to be fitted at the dressmaker 's . |
| 45 | ‘ Leave me your telephone number , and if I do remember something I 'll ring you . |
| 46 | The best bit 's when the light 's out , and I can listen to her breathing , and if I want to say summat — you know , summat that happened in the day — I can just speak soft and she 'll hear me . |
| 47 | Besides , as you so rightly pointed out , I 'm not getting any younger , and if I want to have your children … ’ |
| 48 | And if I refuse to tell them , they 'll become suspicious . ’ |
| 49 | Er and and I 've found it very useful in t term |
| 50 | And because I 've met you , Mr Rochester , and I ca n't bear never to see you again . |
| 51 | Because of what he 'd said and because I 'd asked his wife who he was . |
| 52 | Yeah and while I 've seen what 's doing it |
| 53 | And while I continued to make my contribution , I really did feel it was high time I started looking out for number one . |
| 54 | In order to test my reaction , and before I had received my copy , Michael had typed it out and sent it to me , almost as if it might be one of his own efforts , and I had reacted with some reserve . |
| 55 | Every weekend that they came to visit me would end in tears , and I was fourteen before I could manage without them , and before I stopped kissing my father goodnight . |
| 56 | Mr D. Davidson turned out to be Alec 's father and after I had identified myself as an old school-friend of Alec 's — I allowed myself a little poetic licence in this description — he confirmed that Alec still lived in Strondonald . |
| 57 | I sometimes wondered whether she had been angry with the infant Margaret and whether I had feared her always . |
| 58 | It was old Mr. Stavanger who paid for me to have a good secretarial course , and when I 'd qualified he gave me a job in the shipping office . |
| 59 | ‘ As I told you , I spent some time writing letters and when I 'd finished I thought it would be pleasant to get some fresh air so I went out and posted them — in the box outside the main post office — ’ |
| 60 | But just when I was feeling at home in the loin-cloth and boot polish , and when I 'd learned my lines before anyone else and was getting as competent as a little orangutan on the scaffolding , I saw that our conflicts had n't ended . |