Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] and i [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil for two congresses I 've come here and I spoke to your predecessor about team working and the team working concept and I told th your predecessor that the steel union was about to takeover our craftsmen and our general workers . |
| 2 | He used to come in here he did n't know er how good it was , he 's a a bit of a bit of a lady , you know , kick your eye out , and he come in here , I can see him now si sitting on that chair there er , and I was sat there and I said to him , I said er why do n't you start kidding to it and all this madam , you know , give it sweets and this other . |
| 3 | ‘ But I 'll just have to collect my bag , so you run home and I promise to be there in ten minutes . ’ |
| 4 | We had a very impromptu meal which was brought out from somewhere near Bahrain because our landing area was in a small offshore sand strip where the Nos 55 and 84 Squadron aircraft ( also a Valentia from No 70 Squadron , which was our support aircraft ) were all based overnight and I went to sleep in this hot and humid place , The humidity factor at Bahrain was very high indeed , in the 90s , but I went to sleep quite comfortably on a groundsheet having dug a little hole for my not very considerable hips , weighing very little above 9 stone , and I settled down for the night . |
| 5 | And erm we got there and I says to my husband I says , oh , I says er , are you sure that tent 's safe ? |
| 6 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 7 | And I want to eat well and I want to be comfortable and I want to stay in good hotel |
| 8 | So I was standing there and I thought to myself pretend I 'm looking at my watch and I 'm waiting for someone . |
| 9 | And I come home and I says to him , I 'm not having this no more . |
| 10 | Thursday aye er , she come home and I said to her where 's your ski jacket ? |
| 11 | And I said okay and I said to her dance teacher in front of her she wants to go to a disco . |