Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , they the men are more stronger and that but I 've run around a couple of them and I 've lo |
| 2 | its not how they came into the world of real names to stick with prat names like Beatrice and , I mean I know its old royal and that and I mean fancy going to school in that bloody Henry and William , I mean William 's not too bad |
| 3 | One was quite hot and spicy but I 'd forgotten what we had for the first two the two that they brought out . |
| 4 | In fact , everything was much less traumatic and emotional than I 'd expected , probably because I 'm pretty hard on myself anyway . |
| 5 | I think basically , if you 've got good colour sense you 're home and dry as I have said many times , it does n't matter how you put it together , but if the colours are superb , it 's going to look good . |
| 6 | Feeling flustered and guilty that I had departed from my normal custom of never working on a pupil 's painting , I foolishly replied " Yes " . |
| 7 | M.J. talked a lot , and Donald said I encouraged her too much , and that I.C.B. was on the point of being more personal and interesting if I had let her — but I was rather shy of it . |
| 8 | It was interesting and exciting and I began to forget the bad times in Hong Kong . |
| 9 | Her nose is all cold and wet and I want to wipe it for her , but I do n't . |
| 10 | I was lonely and sad and I wanted to die , too . |
| 11 | A hypothetical imperative tells me that , as a rational being , I must do such and such if I desire to obtain a certain upshot , because it is the essential means to that upshot , and he who wills the end must will the means . |
| 12 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 13 | I found Naomi Wolf 's article Exploding The Beauty Myth in the November 1990 issue so eye-opening , thoughtful and powerful that I felt compelled to buy her book . |
| 14 | No , it 's permed and is prone to being dry and frizzy so I have to use a lot of conditioner on it . |
| 15 | I felt disillusioned , stale and cynical and I wanted to take a break before I started taking it out on the callers . |
| 16 | She looked so fresh and happy that I started grinning as soon as I waved to her , standing below me in the cockpit of the boat , where a servant from Faalifu was carrying some packages while Captain Baker looked down from the bridge . |
| 17 | Slaughtermen in the UK need to be licensed ( although the requirements are often easily met and there are no statutory national standards ) and those that I have observed take a grim pride in doing the job with efficiency . |
| 18 | But I found Eliot quieter and calmer than I had done recently , when he had begun to sign letters ‘ in haste ’ . |
| 19 | So it is on the basis of us all ( EVEN I ! ) being human and fallible that I have to announce that it is scientifically almost impossible not to shed surplus body fat when calorie intake is strictly limited to 1,000 a day . |
| 20 | She went higher and higher and I kept running , outpaced now by the wind and the kite . |
| 21 | And I felt so happy and excited so I did ring him up . ’ |
| 22 | It had a nice smell and my hair felt very silky and manageable after I 'd rinsed it . |
| 23 | I know some people might think the decision I made was unpleasant and monstrous but I want to tell how I came to make the decision and the reasons behind it . |
| 24 | I knew you were heading for Dublin , knew which hotel , because Donal had made a great point of telling me , and so , when the dinner I was at proved to be as boring and interminable as I had known it would , I left . |
| 25 | Seeing that my daughter Anna has not availed herself of my advice touching the objectionable practice of going about with her arms bare to the elbows , my will is that , should she continue after my death this violation of the modesty of her sex , all goods , chattels , moneys , land , and other that I have devised to her for the maintenance of her future life shall pass to the oldest of the sons of my sister Caroline . |
| 26 | And then he was very er well now I 'm sorry after he 'd put all the hard work with me , he was very very annoyed and disappointed that I had let him down so . |
| 27 | I had to keep walking round and round and I wanted to go to sleep . |
| 28 | The teaching is just as accurate and painstaking and thorough as I have found in previous years . |
| 29 | THE police tend to get an unfavourable press , though in my experience they have never been anything less than kind , helpful and efficient when I 've needed them most . |
| 30 | It rekindles memories of those old-fashioned Hollywood romances of the Thirties and Forties that I had seen as a child . |