Example sentences of "and [adv] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We made straight back to the airport and I was put on a Rhodesian plane for Salisbury , where negotiations were renewed and eventually I returned to London . |
| 2 | This sort of behaviour is very irritating and eventually I resorted to giving him a kick . |
| 3 | And then er , there 's a long line of changing jobs and eventually I came to Dudley . |
| 4 | Mrs Field was such a grand lady , and eventually I moved to Lartington to become her lady 's maid . |
| 5 | I 'm sure that when I came out of the room I was staggering , and instinctively I pawed at my mouth . |
| 6 | replied the doctor in his delightful Scottish accent ( and rather I think with a lovely Highland lilt to it ) . |
| 7 | He 's almost halfway across and suddenly I go from being terrified and annoyed to being exhilarated , intoxicated ; overjoyed . |
| 8 | Miss Sowerby — by now an enthusiastic convert — and I had taken turns at massaging the damaged calf muscles , and suddenly I said to him , ‘ Jimbo , just imagine it 's you that 's making the muscles move . ’ |
| 9 | And then expand on it , and so I go into each of these and I go to the and I say a few words about each of these particular themes . |
| 10 | Because they 're geared to Marks and Spencers , now there 's the advert for them they work with , with mass production , that 's where it goes wrong because we 've lost our individuality and so I go to the Italians in order to get the sort of yarns they offer me , now they 're the sort of yarns they offer me . |
| 11 | And so I looked at my uneasy mistress with an anxious and angry eye which she was unable to meet . |
| 12 | And so I resort to buying bottled water . |
| 13 | And so I took with I say with her blessing , took a er a picture of it for posterity . |
| 14 | And so I wake in the night panic stricken over a lack of fuel . |
| 15 | He knew exactly what he wanted and so I relied on him one hundred per cent . |
| 16 | An evening thunderstorm suggested that the situation would not be CAVOK , and so I struggled with the telephone . |
| 17 | I was given the job of going to fetch the agent , but Dad offered to go and so I went with him . |
| 18 | But a friend is a friend , and so I went at once to his house . |
| 19 | And so I went to sea for the second time . |
| 20 | The woman at the villa , Barbara Coleman , would n't tell me where it was and so I went to Durance and he was equally determined about it . |
| 21 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 22 | When I first went to work , I went and joined the union , there was n't one in the factory I was working in and so I went to the nearest er trade union office and joined . |
| 23 | And so I walked to Whitcross , the lonely crossroads on the moor , where I had arrived a year ago with no money or luggage . |
| 24 | And so I waited for the darkness of the Tongan night to lift , my fingers tightly crossed . |
| 25 | And so I ran to the forge to fetch him . |
| 26 | I just felt I ought to be doing something and so I stuck to it . |
| 27 | And so I progressed to secondary school . |
| 28 | ’ So this was an order and so I had to and a young woman opened the door — about eighteen years . |
| 29 | And so I had to sort of go round the room and say I 'm Tony and this is , and go all round , and I got round the room . |
| 30 | Oh I know , he said erm , let me see , oh he says , er like that , if it was a narrow road er you er pretty well covered the road and I looked , I said , covered the road , I said I know I 'm big , but not that big a and of course everybody , the magistrates on the bench and everybody laughed , you see and there were newspaper reporters sitting down there writing all this down , you see and so I said to the sergeant , I said , would you be kind enough to send me a newspaper to er tonight and he to I am not sure if I can oh yes I think I did . |