Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb base] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And you hate me for all that , of course , ’ Luke accepted neutrally . |
| 2 | ‘ You say things like that and you expect me to bloody well sleep with you . ’ |
| 3 | You see they did n't do things then that they would have done today , you see , seven years and you see I at that time , well I used to used to have a day off and instead of having a half day a week we used to have full day a fortnight and so of course on my day off I came home to see what I can do to help , you see and er my mother died . |
| 4 | Now I 've past the last base and you want me to just run through a minefield okay ? |
| 5 | Erm and come back to you , perhaps in a week 's time and you talk me through those recommendations . |
| 6 | ‘ And you accuse me of having an oversized ego ? |
| 7 | And they ask me for hardly any rent , which is the other nice thing about it . ’ |
| 8 | Er and she said I 'll ring you ag I said oh dear someone now coming to the door , she said , never mind I 'll ring you on Saturday , so I said alright and er and she lives at Wyndham , Norfolk , my husband 's niece and erm , you see , and then there 's the other one and she said , auntie you 're always so cheerful , I said , well I try to be cheerful because like everybody else I get a little depressed sometimes because , you see , I have no sisters and brothers , I have three elderly cousins who live away and who I , who I see , one was here a fortnight ago er er er my cousin and his wife er , you see , it will be on a Wednesday , a fortnight today , no Thursday , yes , you see , a fortnight ago and they said , we 'll come again an we 've always bought you a bunch of daffodils so we shall come again when the daffodils are and er and they bring me over bits and pieces because er she was a cook and they bring me something nice to eat |
| 9 | family and they put me onto valium , but having worked in psychiatric I knew the results of valium , so I I gradually broke them down and got off them but for six full months I could n't sleep |
| 10 | He called a doctor and they put me to bed . |
| 11 | Er , I actually had two stillborn babies , one one year after each other and they put me on Valium and it did n't do me any good at all ! |
| 12 | Anyway , one day I was messing about playing hide and seek , hiding from the officers , and they put me on report . |
| 13 | So I started there and they put me on a month 's trial and I dithered about about this month , whether I was good enough , and they 'd forgotten all about it , by the end of month , trial . |
| 14 | They took me along and they put me into this dormitory . |
| 15 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 16 | I had just turned sixteen and they put me in this place that was really for dossers . |
| 17 | And they put me in the banqueting room , erm but we could n't , d' ya know . |
| 18 | And they expect me to co be coming in from here , |
| 19 | Well that 's what everybody sings to me when them and they meet me for the first time or get introduced to me . |
| 20 | ‘ And they reccommend me to other people . |
| 21 | I was the first British person most of them had met and they see me as a bridge to the outside world , ’ she said . |
| 22 | Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife |
| 23 | and he meet me at Presto and we 'll get your stuff and we 'll get our stuff out the same time erm |