Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] i [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
2 | and then I had to work with these people and I knew that that was the kind of way that they were operating and I had to teach them by the way I worked but in fact it was okay to admit that we do make mistakes . |
3 | and they were losing and I went to spur them on . |
4 | And Evelyn knows I am coming but I forgot to mention you 'd be with me . ’ |
5 | I know the time is slipping and I hope to get it done in the next two weeks . |
6 | ‘ I wish it had been boiling and I 'd poured it over your damned head ! ’ |
7 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |