Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] and i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They always let you use a ‘ phone and sometimes you get a private one in a booth or similar and I 've made many Stateside calls that way . |
| 2 | Mr Paine , I feel sure , will be a candidate for some award or other and I trust he will remember the couple whose bravery obviously far exceeded that called for in the normal course of duty . |
| 3 | I 'd like to go to Australia because they all seem that friendly and I 've got relatives there . |
| 4 | I was shaking , shivering and sweating and I had the most awful pain going through my body . |
| 5 | and words are put clear and strong and I think I 'd use the word forceful |
| 6 | I was so young and foolish and I did not know what I was doing . ’ |
| 7 | It was interesting and exciting and I began to forget the bad times in Hong Kong . |
| 8 | We conducted a two year study to assess the effectiveness of the family smoking education and smoking and me projects in influencing smoking behaviour . |
| 9 | This time he seemed ill at ease and jumpy and I noticed his face was slick with perspiration when he spun to greet me . |
| 10 | Everything in bilingual Canada was written in both English and French and I realized that since my arrival I 'd been reading the French quite easily . |
| 11 | Her nose is all cold and wet and I want to wipe it for her , but I do n't . |
| 12 | Well I 've learnt a lesson good and proper and I 'ope I never see you again . ’ |
| 13 | But I was young and Scottish and I thought I was the greatest . |
| 14 | I was lonely and sad and I wanted to die , too . |
| 15 | I soaked it in hot water and antiseptic and I drank a little more whisky . |
| 16 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 17 | It was wet and cold and I realised I was bleeding heavily . ’ |
| 18 | We turn right and left and I check the route , just in case . |
| 19 | so he 's getting married in uniform with all his blue and white and I said oh blooming heck |
| 20 | " Basically this garden is blue and white and I think in a small garden one has to pay great attention to the colours , otherwise it can look an awful hotchpotch , " says Tricia . |
| 21 | Er thanks Tom that was really quite dynamic and breathtaking and I think you 'll all agree . |
| 22 | More likely the net was carried away because the ground was bone dry and hard and I had n't been able to push the stakes deep enough into the soil . |
| 23 | The comparison between Matisse and Picasso is true and present and I do not think that one can look at Matisse without thinking of Picasso and vice versa . |
| 24 | I felt disillusioned , stale and cynical and I wanted to take a break before I started taking it out on the callers . |
| 25 | The carpet on the stairs is thick and deep and I make no noise as I climb to the top , then pad along towards the master bedroom , tripping one more sensor . |
| 26 | I disapproved of his grey suede shoes , his floppy bow tie and the excessive width of his trousers : he struck me as flaccid and petulant and I disliked him on sight . |
| 27 | I was obsessed with being flat-chested and unglamorous and I used to harp on about how he must be hankering for someone more glamorous . ’ |
| 28 | It was false and manipulative and I admired it tremendously . |
| 29 | We enjoyed their music and shared their worship and we came back changed and enriched and I commend number twenty seven to everyone 's attention . |
| 30 | I think they mean that I look fat and ugly and I wish they would keep their remarks to themselves . |