Example sentences of "[v-ing] and i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's why I 'm so thankful that I 'm on the reading and that I like sewing , I like walking and I 've made some very nice friends within easy walking distance , I can go out and have a coffee with them , because I , while I 'm recovering from the agony 's of from the finance |
| 2 | In November , I wrote to him pointing that the formal period for consultation was ending and I asked when we might hear his response to the Green Paper . |
| 3 | Erm and it 's a bit like timekeeping I mean they they 've got their own system now for evaluating how good they are at time keeping and I think the erm the figure they try and hit is about ninety five percent is n't it of trains arriving on time . |
| 4 | So there 's an example of where it 's happening and I hope it will happen over the whole field . |
| 5 | Right you have to come I think the basis of this evening was to get people to come along and put there points of view and to say what 's happening and what is n't happening and I think we can take that take that away and considerate it yes I mean I I think the board or the management committee will be happy to meet with people to discuss the use of the theatre er what it 's used for what might what the unhappiness is if there is unhappiness and the positive and the positive as well as the negative points yes . |
| 6 | Your party , your other , never mind , and when that happens you get poaching and I 've always said , if you treat your membership properly they 'll stay with you , but you 've also got to remember that the union is in dire financial straits , or so it tells us . |
| 7 | Look , I 'm dying and I do n't know how . |
| 8 | ‘ Tenzing and I shook hands and then Tenzing threw his arms around my shoulders . |
| 9 | Stein said yesterday : ‘ Mr Beller told me told that if things were not sorted out by tomorrow , the company would cease trading and I do really fear that this is the end . |
| 10 | Stein said yesterday : ‘ Mr Beller told me if things were not sorted out by tomorrow the company would cease trading and I do really fear this is the end . |
| 11 | The shops were opening and I browsed for a while in one that sold books as well as newspapers and magazines , but I failed to find the American edition of Rodriguez 's book . |
| 12 | ‘ If I 'm driving and I see someone commit an offence or something a bit dodgy I always make a mental note , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ If I 'm driving and I see someone commit an offence or something a bit dodgy I always make a mental note , ’ he said . |
| 14 | And they all started laughing and I wondered what they were laughing at . |
| 15 | At least , out here , I have — I admit this with shame — I have delivered an extended breech with the nurse giving chloroform at one end and praying and me delivering at the other end and swearing , and the baby lived , the mother lived , and everything was all right . |
| 16 | They were endlessly busy when they were n't praying and I remembered their surroundings as always faintly shining . |
| 17 | I did at one stage : I could see no point in living and I believed death would be an easier option . |
| 18 | I heard you listening and I thought oh she 'll probably wan na tell me if there 's anything , it 's that the warmer airstream or something . |
| 19 | " I was passing and I looked in . |
| 20 | ‘ I was passing and I thought I 'd just pop in and see how you were . ’ |
| 21 | She said : ‘ I heard Stephen shouting and I knew there was something wrong . |
| 22 | She said : ‘ I heard Stephen shouting and I knew there was something wrong . |
| 23 | My head was swimming and I felt very tired suddenly . |
| 24 | Anyway I were looking and I looked and I looked and I looked and I says well what cigarettes do you use for it ? |
| 25 | " Mary was n't looking and I found the experience very pleasant . |
| 26 | But I liked serving and I liked to feel that I was able to have sold somebody something . |
| 27 | Then she breathes out and gives a real smile — one of those big things that brightens her face like a starburst — and I see she 's been frightened , and I sigh , and suddenly I 've got a lump in my throat and I 'm trembling and I do n't think I can move away from this wall . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I 'd much rather he went on acting and I went on learning . |
| 30 | I smoked for twenty seven years , and erm I 'm getting on to a year now since I stopped smoking and I feel a lot calmer , I hated being a victim to cigarettes ! |