Example sentences of "[v-ing] and i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Tenzing and I shook hands and then Tenzing threw his arms around my shoulders . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And they all started laughing and I wondered what they were laughing at . |
| 5 | They were endlessly busy when they were n't praying and I remembered their surroundings as always faintly shining . |
| 6 | I did at one stage : I could see no point in living and I believed death would be an easier option . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | " I was passing and I looked in . |
| 9 | ‘ I was passing and I thought I 'd just pop in and see how you were . ’ |
| 10 | She said : ‘ I heard Stephen shouting and I knew there was something wrong . |
| 11 | She said : ‘ I heard Stephen shouting and I knew there was something wrong . |
| 12 | My head was swimming and I felt very tired suddenly . |
| 13 | Anyway I were looking and I looked and I looked and I looked and I says well what cigarettes do you use for it ? |
| 14 | " Mary was n't looking and I found the experience very pleasant . |
| 15 | But I liked serving and I liked to feel that I was able to have sold somebody something . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I 'd much rather he went on acting and I went on learning . |
| 18 | The other thing I wondered when I was watching the video , you sat there at one stage , while I was writing and I thought , I thought , what are you thinking ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The urgency of coming out was building and I felt like a firecracker about to go off . |
| 21 | Erm I came to see you a few weeks ago at night you know er It 's just like I 'm just filling up , you know , with mucus and stuff and coughing and I had er no sleep for about a week . |
| 22 | ‘ By the time the season kicked off against Norwich it was felt I was ready but because of the heat I felt it hard going and I struggled . |
| 23 | It got my interest going and I went off to Herefordshire , Worcestershire and Mid-Wales and even down to Bristol . |
| 24 | ‘ My mind ’ , she said ‘ was set on going and I had to go . ’ |
| 25 | so we set off going and I thought well the first ones were , did n't ask for a proof of doing it , just asked to do it |
| 26 | I know , you see him , he 's walking and you see him , he 's going ruff , ruff and she 's going and I thought , no , man , I do n't care if I 'm friends with her no I 'm not going near her with the dog . |
| 27 | Credit to them , they came back , got a great goal , Les Phillips had a great game , made the first one I think , no the second one he made did n't he ? erm But he played tremendous , Les ; he got the passing going and I thought they did very well as a team , we kept our composure . |
| 28 | And it was one of those such nights that at half past seven I 'd just got most of the fires set and ready to er er just on and going and I 'd half an hour to get everything straightened and ready for eight o'clock opening , and the door at the back went , which was where the office used to be . |
| 29 | Well if you 've got a cloth er parcel with , with , wrapped in cloth you know everybody knew where you were going and I did n't like people to know I was going to , been to the pawnshop . |
| 30 | She , she did n't mind because she 's winking and I thought ah is n't that nice of her , it is really because she organised it all and she do n't know me so that was very kind of her did n't you think so Bet ? |