Example sentences of "and [verb] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His catches at Tring on flavoured maggot were extraordinary and led me to follow him . |
| 2 | Later he called me to a meeting of the Executive Council and asked me to say what I thought the principles of the Department should be and how they could be implemented . |
| 3 | It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress . |
| 4 | He looked at me and asked me to take it . |
| 5 | Smith was a slow reader and took about an hour to read and ponder the document , after which he approved it and asked me to take it to Harold Wilson . |
| 6 | They gave me a line of coke , and asked me to do it for them . |
| 7 | " Well , she waylaid me as I was leaving after seeing your Toby , and asked me to give you a message . |
| 8 | He telephoned me at three o'clock in the morning , and asked me to confirm it . |
| 9 | All eight doctors signed a letter on 13 December to the Secretary of State for Health and asked me to pass it on . |
| 10 | I thought at the time she made nought of it , but back last summer , like you say , round August bank 'oliday , she came to see me and asked me to tell 'er everything I remembered 'bout the day of the explosion . |
| 11 | ‘ When your mother came to live here and asked me to advise her , ’ he said uneasily , ‘ I naturally wanted to know some background . |
| 12 | She rung me up and asked me did I want a microwave oven ? |
| 13 | When I was political editor of the Daily Mirror , Maxwell took a shine to this hat and asked me to get him one identical to it . |
| 14 | He gave me this and asked me to deliver it to Dick Tavett . |
| 15 | Could anyone ever knock any sense into this thick skull , and make me see what kind of a man I 'm stuck with ? ’ |
| 16 | Anyway they questionedme and realised I had nothing to do with it and I got a letter saying I was completely innocent and apologising profusely |
| 17 | As I handed my music to the organist , I shook so badly he bought me a brandy and made me drink it . |
| 18 | And he hung it there for me and made me feel its proportions . |
| 19 | I 've just asked Kurt whether the heroin rumours are true — to which he 's laughed , said ‘ No ! ’ and made me feel his arms for any tell-tale scars or holes , though obviously shooting up is n't the only way to take smack and to be honest I 'm not sure I knew what I was meant to be looking for , but still , it 's an impressive gesture at the very least — when Anton walks in with a woman I recognise as Susan Silver , manager of Soundgarden . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've seen him myself , or else hearing about it has put me in a special state of mind , and all the other factors have come up right , atmospheric conditions , combinations of light and dark , what you like , and made me create what I believed I was seeing . |
| 21 | Er I , I was going in the evening you know , doing the tailoring class but of course my illnesses have stopped me doing all of that and made me realize I ca n't do it all . |
| 22 | It ran down between my eyes and made me see everything blood-red , even though seconds before my mind had conjured up a pleasing vision : the English boy 's sister . |
| 23 | Whenever I am working with someone I know and trust I ask them for a quick trim . |
| 24 | And to establish I mean I think that as a g |
| 25 | ‘ And the reason the boy wonder suddenly rang and invited me to watch him go through his paces was because he wanted to show off something rotten , ’ she teased , intent on bringing him back down to earth . |
| 26 | You pop up out of the blue and expect me to drop everything , just like that . |
| 27 | But I will not be ordered this way and that , she said , I will do the work in my own time , as I choose , for my sister has no right to treat me like a maid , to give orders and expect me to run her errands . |
| 28 | A lot of women write and say I wish I 'd met you 20 years ago . |
| 29 | You see this is the thing that worries me because , you know , when I stand up and say I like what John Dreyfus did and I think his looks very good and I maintain the traditions of the Oxford University Press , I can suddenly feel that I 'm being typecast as being in the English tradition of typography as a revered art and the Morrisonian thing and the whole thing separate from , you know , a culture within a culture and a separate thing . |
| 30 | But you can take it back and say I want my money ? |