Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 We sat on our stools and I smiled at him , thinking he was going to ask me about my dress or where I lived or something , and he said , ‘ Who 's your favourite philosopher ? ’
2 Mallards , coots and moorhens could often be seen and heard waddling about the housing estate where I lived or sometimes even boldly marching up the high street .
3 Where I lived and that ?
4 On the minus side , they knew what I looked like , where I lived and what I drove .
5 Only after 1 February can I go more or less where I please and then there is a need to work quite quickly since the ferreting season ends in April when the fast-growing vegetation and the increasing arrival of litters of young rabbits make it impractical to continue .
6 I used to go along to Greenbank Hospital 's geriatric wards , where I sang and played to the old folk .
7 It 's quiet where I live but they 're , they 're nosy .
8 You may think Loxford light years behind Woodborough , but it is my patch , where I live and work , however anachronistic .
9 Following the path with my thoughts wallowing in nostalgia , I soon found myself back where I started and crashing into the people I had heard through the mist .
10 I made my way to an hotel lounge in the Diamond , where I sat and read a leaflet I had picked up in the church .
11 We parked near the boathouse on the west shore , a ruined , mud-filled RAF building , where I pushed and heaved my three companions afloat , waving a cheerful farewell .
12 bit here and I thought god that so I thought right I 'm gon na change places in that seat but your father 's sitting on , alright , I said go in that back seat , just behind us there were there or I said or I 'm just coming to sit where you are , I said I ca n't do four hours sitting like this , I mean I 'd have been boss eyed before I got , well I was I , I , all say look at that cloud
13 So I either have it in the kitchen or I go and I say to them do you want a cup of tea ?
14 I am often asked what if I had an accident or I collapsed and there was no one around to help .
15 Although I dreamed and could thus distinguish sleep from death , although I woke up again each morning , the fear remained , and my sister 's death only served to strengthen it .
16 ‘ My friends are people that I trust and I do n't have to put on airs with them — they know me and do n't assume that I 'm a terrific snob if I happen to be very quiet . ’
17 Basic Instinct is such preposterous , pernicious trash that I laughed and laughed .
18 Megan joined her plea to Ann 's , with such eager sincerity that I laughed and agreed .
19 Early Muddy Waters stuff : his stuff was the first slide that I heard and I did n't know what it was ; I did n't know if someone was playing steel guitar ; it sounded like they were fretting the guitar and slidin' .
20 It was in that office on the fourth floor that I heard and felt the city of Dublin roar and shudder with the explosion of three massive bombs which ripped through the heart of the city and its people .
21 It so happens that I can remember the firsts serious poem that I wrote and published , which was actually when I was in my mid-twenties .
22 The one that I remember and I hope that that er the papers are either here in Caernarfon in the archives or p possible in the National Library because my cousin , gave most of the Brothers papers that he had control over
23 and the a the idea of of erm the butch woman in dungarees , as being the feminist , erm and the women that burnt her bra or whatever was a feminist of the seventies , but it does n't mean to say that the ideas are n't still there , and I still want to be treated as an equal , but I do , I do n't see that I should change the way that I dress or the way that that I want to act
24 It was Neil Spencer , editor of NME , suggesting rather embarrassedly that I come and see him .
25 Then she suggested that I go and stay with her in her flat .
26 I ca n't afford it to , apart from that I mean and it was
27 Th this impression that I got or er erm that incident at school , played such a big part in my life after that , I was mortally embarrassed for the rest of my school life .
28 I said well that I said but he 's a lot taller than you Geoff
29 Do n't for God 's sake , do that y'know it 's what I find is , once panic sets in w and that 's usually either the night before or the day , I d anything that I try and read does n't really go in very well .
30 I was filled with such great uneasiness and hatred that I chattered and jibbered and made myself horrible .
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