Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] and i [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | On the whole I hate spoofs and I like everything played straight . |
2 | For the first time in my life I tasted champagne and I did not care for it very much because I was a complete and absolute non-drinker at the time , I would like to warn anybody that this was something which did not last for very long : I have since acquired an insatiable thirst and desire for champagne . |
3 | We 're constantly reworking songs and I imagine in the next few months we 'll probably be reworking members too . |
4 | ‘ If you touch that fish I 'll have you up the steps before you can say Jack Robinson , ’ hissed Herbie , going blue in the face ‘ Whaddya mean , ’ argued Lofty , ‘ I found im and I got ta licence . ’ |
5 | Mr Barnet rowed the boat and he let Edward and me have a turn with one oar . |
6 | Chatham has attractions and I think they would try and carry on , but the impact of the injunction sought on their businesses would be very significant and the probability must be that they would have to cease operations . |
7 | ‘ It 's just that Luke invited Heather and me to join him and his friends for dinner last night . |
8 | I cry , and I reach out and , lo and behold , I touch wood and I know that it 's one of the posts which hold up the catwalk . |
9 | ‘ I am not representing CND , I am not representing the Vatican , I am representing Tottenham and I think many other people as well . ’ |
10 | I pretended to find Matthew and I roused the family … ’ |
11 | Many times I 've prebaited every night for two weeks or more and caught fish and I 've prebaited with similar amounts . |
12 | ‘ The cot was a major item ; it cost £120 and I bought a spring mattress which cost £20 . |
13 | I started taking smack at school , 'cos everyone in the — estate at that time was taking it and that was the only place you could buy pot and I sent one of me mates out from school one day to buy some speed and he come back with smack and said this is all I could get and I said I do n't want none of that , but in the end we ended up doing it because we was bored and we had nothing else to do . |
14 | I 've always owned bitches and I 've always had them done . |
15 | Just before Christmas , Pogo invited Aubrey and me to go up to Melton Mowbray to hunt . |
16 | They are good to meet people and I do actually like to enter . |
17 | Then , unexpectedly , he invited Brian and me to stay in Northumberland where he had taken a grouse moor for the summer ; thereafter we went each year until he died , first to Otterburn and then to Wark . |
18 | Would my neighbours have let Lou and me have Sophie and Ben ? |
19 | Oh it was when we were gon na go to the cinema and I phoned Marion and I said no , I really can not be bothered , it 's just pouring down with rain , had |
20 | Maybe more so than say Sandwick and I find like Rendal folk you could tell some of them even yet . |
21 | The board want answers and I want to prove that my relationship with them in general , and Tom Grant in particular , remains a good one . |
22 | conked out other day and he thought it were points , he changed points and I says to him have you changed plugs ? |
23 | We were driving north and I saw it at once . |
24 | I 'd like , I 'd just say that I the the are professionals now that do know more about eating disorders and I do think there are clinics being set up . |
25 | ‘ David , this is Comfort , of whom you have heard Anthony and me speak so often . ’ |
26 | The women used to wear sari and I have never seen a lately with anything but sari , but now they have started wearing the Punjabi dress . |
27 | And she goes honours and I go we well done and she goes |
28 | I think that all that can be said , has been said Chairman and I think that prudence is the leadership today . . |
29 | It so happens Kelly and I have been looking forward to this weekend , and I guarantee that men will play no part in it at all . ’ |
30 | Well , well I think I would , I would rath it I mean i it they 've got the responsibility to whistle blow now , you know , professional they 've got , er you know , they 're they these are professionals and they should , they should whistle blow and I mean Maxwell is a perfect example of how nobody , nobody blew the whistle and if you read through the writs , those lots of these people knew what were what was happening an and the whistle should have been blown and I see no reason why the why the pension regulator is going to get any different , different response and also I mean really these people are being in many cases given by th given information by their clients , you know , and I think it 's a very difficult situation to turn round to , to somebody like Mr Maxwell and say well look I 'm terribly sorry Mr Maxwell , we 're going to report you to the pensions regulator , you know and I think that , that er you will just find that that I just do n't feel that the pension regulator in , in that respect , I mean I , I think that I might like to if Peter suggested a pension fraud squad that , that had a open telephone line and the same sort of er powers as the Serious Fraud Office you know , so that if er anybody in a pension fund could , could ring a number and er and people absolutely descended th that , I mean they ge they say somewhere in the report that the pension regulator is going to have er powers and monies to do spot checks . |