Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] and i " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were very few human beings I cared for and I cared nothing for cactuses . |
| 2 | Lizzy is being very well looked after and I shall be back at work tomorrow . ’ |
| 3 | He looks like and I , first of all when we saw him I thought who the hell is that , ca n't be a father cos look at him , he looks terrible . |
| 4 | Now I have always been very particular whom I sleep with and I did n't like sharing my room with a possible murderer . |
| 5 | There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over . |
| 6 | Laing was at pains to stress that at no time did he feel under pressure : ‘ It was that I 'd never been caught before and I did n't know what to do . |
| 7 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 8 | He used to come to and I was a member of Springbank for sixty years and er anything I can do Richard , you know . |
| 9 | Erm but I I want to and I 'm not sure where to go from here , I 'm not sure |
| 10 | So I said well , that 's like this Pete , you live the way you want to and I 'll live the way I want to , I said it 's immaterial to me . |
| 11 | I 'm quite scared erm I 'd be scar I mean I 'd be scared if I saw one but be interesting at the same time , I sort of want to and I sort of |
| 12 | Because erm the er the purpose of these regulations which er my old friend has just eluded to and I s I I and I have myself , is to extend to the citizens of other member states of the European union who are resident here , the right to vote and to stand as a candidate in the elections to the European parliament . |
| 13 | He did n't understand what I was laughing at and I decided against an explanation . |
| 14 | For instance , if you 've got a problem that you 're keen to talk about and I rush in to reassure you that it 's not a problem , I dodge your agenda . |
| 15 | My dear , we have things to talk about and I do n't expect to be here for very much longer — would you prefer us to trail off to my hotel or some public place , or to your frankly not very inviting villa ? |
| 16 | I do n't know who you 're looking for and I do n't want to know but even I can see that whoever it is he wo n't be overjoyed to see you … ’ |
| 17 | I was the one in hide-and-seek that you never came looking for and I hid for hours from no-one … . |
| 18 | I knew roughly what I was looking for and I found it on the floor under a seat frame from which the seat had been removed . |
| 19 | Like this , you see looking for and I said she 's gone on a bike ride ! |
| 20 | Custis endorsed this in a reply , ‘ … he is the most takeing faceitious man I have ever met with and I never was so much delighted with a stranger in all my life ’ . |
| 21 | It is a very good base to talk from and I would love to have it . |
| 22 | It is one I have never seen before and I wonder how many hours of patient madness produces such things . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ I 've met lots of interesting people that I would never have seen before and I 've even had some nice letters . |
| 24 | It 's like a speck of dust drifts down and goes into my eye and I look up to see where it came from and I 'm hit by this tonne of bricks ; it hits me that hard . |
| 25 | And er so this student came to and I organized a conference and took the chair for him you know and er and helped him every possible way . |
| 26 | She was n't mean about it , she was very grateful to have someone to talk to and I used to try to spend a lot of time with her just to cheer her up — you know , walk the dog with her and go shopping — just do all the things that would help . |
| 27 | She was going through a traumatic divorce at the time and it was obvious she needed someone to talk to and I just happened to be around . |
| 28 | But I I 've got to In fact I 'll make myself a note here and now , I 've got to talk to and I 'll get them to send some more tapes . |
| 29 | The long list have been told that erm , erm , notices were being made at and I think that 's right , is n't it ? |
| 30 | The other grammar , written by and me , was A communicative Grammar of English , published in 1975 . |