Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] and i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now Ellen the time I have long awaited has come and I write to tell you that an Italian maidservant by name of Gigia who is travelling home to Florence having been in Scotland with a family who are friends of the Brownings is to come to you to collect Oreste and take him to Liverpool where she will be joined by Mr Ogilvy and from whence they will sail for Italy . |
| 2 | So I I think time has moved on , th the pressure from erm the economic pressure and the right wing pressure has grown and i think we 're now doing the right thing . |
| 3 | Or he has written and I have not received it . |
| 4 | The Lord Chancellor has invited and me to put forward positive recommendations , which we have undertaken to do , after the fullest consultation . |
| 5 | So I , I was very moved to find that this has arrived and I do n't think it 's romantic nonsense , I think it is related to the business of getting people together locally . |
| 6 | When I awake , the sickness has gone , but the high has remained and I feel fitter than I have done in the whole of our visit . |
| 7 | Right O K yeah that 's the other major erm feature is that agriculture 's share of world trade has declined and manufacturing er share of world trade has increased and I 've got some er some numbers here erm so it says before the first world war agriculture 's share of world trade was over fifty percent , today it is less than fourteen percent okay , so agriculture 's share in world trade is declining and has been declining er essentially over the the last sort of seventy years or so . |
| 8 | And if you do n't feel that you can fit in a pupil comment , you have to be very careful here because some people will take it as a cop-out and not do it and a that worries me and it has happened and I think it is important that the youngsters are actually given some guidance and the opportunity to do it . |
| 9 | Destiny has fled and I settle for you |
| 10 | ‘ They think nothing has changed and I do n't blame them . ’ |
| 11 | Mansell said : ‘ At this moment , nothing has changed and I do n't see it changing . |
| 12 | My life has changed and I live around the horses and would n't change it for the world now . |
| 13 | My taste in food has changed and I love the feeling of lightness I have now . |
| 14 | When I said she was n't here , he asked where she was and I said Maidstone and he said she 'd moved and I said then I did n't know but he could leave the flowers here for Frank but he would n't . |
| 15 | Of course , a bit later still Granny Tremayne said she 'd drowned and I thought : serve her right . |
| 16 | I said bye then see you sometime , bye and I put the phone down , and she said what does she want then and I said oh she wanted to know where , you know she 'd gone and I said oh I have n't seen her all week you know after , while we was hanging , she was hanging pictures , erm , she come through , she said oh they look wonderful she said I 've got pictures she said , I want my mountain put up in my lounge , with that June burst out laughing , Neil went through and he , he put her pictures up and he was gone there , he said , god he said , you know literally it 's a day to hang pictures , I said well do n't worry about it , you know , that 's what he said to do |
| 17 | Now this other girl came down one Saturday morning and we had a letter to say that I 'd passed and I said well , so have I . |
| 18 | I was gon na say er somebody told me that he 'd left and I thought it was you cos nobody would . |
| 19 | I heard you 'd left and I had business over here . ’ |
| 20 | Never ever had half as much wage as I really should 've had and I say to that 's never bothered me . |
| 21 | He got straight back on to the divan and lay with his eyes shut , as if I should n't have come and I felt I ought never to have come ( especially without telling C ) , and I felt as well that it really was a bit much , a pose . |
| 22 | ‘ I keep thinking what might have happened and I feel cold . ’ |
| 23 | How do those issues get decided and I thought there 's no sensible answer . |
| 24 | I think also in those very tough times ahead I think it 's a very difficult decisions to be made about what services are provided erm , and what operation people are actually going to be able to have done and I wonder how much local people are gon na have a chance to say anything about that in the situation in which their health service their health authority is based so far away . |
| 25 | ‘ The reason I 'm calling , actually , is that my wallet seems to have disappeared and I wondered whether I could possibly have left it there . ’ |
| 26 | Another passer-by , a 21-year-old salesman , said : ‘ I only voted because I want to get married and I do n't want any problems . ’ |
| 27 | The only problem is that Ian wants to get married and I do n't . ’ |
| 28 | Luckily , the rain had stopped and I spent a few minutes baling out , thinking once again that I must do something about drainage , but never seem to get round to it as the weather clears up and everything dries out very quickly . |
| 29 | I asked , as the rain had stopped and I wished to see more of Killala Bay . |
| 30 | That was one night after we had stopped and I stayed on and me and the assistant engineer just hooked that up together . |