Example sentences of "and [conj] i [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that I think they 're all tights there . |
| 2 | Three of them floated in a sea of garlic and tomato and although I found them no better than chewy chicken my wife told me they were well up to scratch . |
| 3 | And if I make them , at least I 'm in good company . |
| 4 | ‘ And if I met them when I was alone ? ’ |
| 5 | And if I remember they came then they came for the Trade Unionist . |
| 6 | And I think it 's I would give very great weight to this partic these two criteria put together and and I think they should be made more explicit sir . |
| 7 | ‘ Thing is , Barbs barged in at an inconvenient moment when my brothers were moving some stuff into my place , and they came over all paranoid and looked at her very old-fashioned , and while I know they would n't do anything to her , now she 's gone missing I ca n't help wondering . |
| 8 | And while I adored them both , I was closer to her ladyship . |
| 9 | and when I looked they did n't have it threaded up right at the top at all I had to re-thread the machine . |
| 10 | These I knew well were not what her whim had remembered , and when I brought them to her she said nothing , but put them aside , sadly shaking her head . |
| 11 | And when I left them , the thing that had seemed so horrible to me was transformed into happiness of body and soul for me . " |
| 12 | They 've been in touch with the undertaker and when I left they were arguing about the funeral . ’ |
| 13 | I viewed A&R men the same way and when I met them I realised that they knew even less than I thought they knew . |
| 14 | Oh , how I do like those lines , and when I repeat them now it brings back so many happy memories of that scamp of a grandfather of mine . |
| 15 | ‘ I know , but she phoned for her results — she was surprised to get me , she seemed to have hoped you 'd be waiting by the phone — and when I told them you 'd gone , her mother took the phone and was in quite a tizz and had a word with Mr Fry and then said they 'd get the next plane home . |
| 16 | And when I told them that in my country there were millions just like me , they did not believe me , but just smiled . |
| 17 | I heard there was a West Midlands League and when I contacted them , they said if I could get a team together we could join . |
| 18 | And that 's why this is very interesting for you because you now know what your preference is and what you need to think about is that I may be a very high reflector , but I can see there 's , there 's Lou in particular was a very strong activist and when I put them together training , I need to ensure that it 's not the way I like to learn , it is a balanced approach others can also gain , I need to ensure that others gain from this . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't even take many holidays and when I do they are pretty disastrous . |
| 20 | ‘ I give his little cars to my grandsons to play with and when I watch them playing I can see Brian as he was playing with them . |
| 21 | But she added : ‘ The people at work think I 'm insane and when I showed them the video of the bungee jump it just confirmed their opinion that I 'm a lunatic . ’ |
| 22 | One participant , Rinchen Dolma Taring , wrote in her book , Daughter of Tibet : ‘ The Lhasa women had made many anti-Chinese posters and when I joined them they were lined up around the Barkhor shouting slogans , ‘ From today Tibet is independent ’ and ‘ China must quit Tibet ’ . |
| 23 | Walking through the lobby of Hotel Vancouver one day I happened to see Shelly talking to a smart looking young lady and when I joined them he introduced his assistant , Hellen Semmens . |
| 24 | My eyes were shut most of the time now as I blundered round the park and when I opened them a red mist swirled . |
| 25 | ‘ I shut my eyes , the ball hit me on the nose , and when I opened them it was in the back of the net ’ . |
| 26 | and when I gave them a questionnaire saying how would you label someone as gay they said , we never make those kind of assumptions . |
| 27 | Spaces had to be left for some animals to be added as and when I found them . |
| 28 | Evan Roberts noticed them , and as I touched them , felt their cool cleanliness and the slight resilient weight on the backs of my fingers . |
| 29 | The suspects were then brought up by number , a single man at a time ( and as I heard them begin with ‘ one ’ , the skin of my neck tightened in anticipation of gunfire which never came ) . |
| 30 | I kept my birthday a secret , except that some students wanted me to sign some books , and as I signed them I put the date and I happened to say that ‘ I am signing this on my 44th birthday ’ , and after that the news spread mysteriously and my whole class greeted me with ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in English , and today , when I saw the other class , they sang ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in Portuguese . |