Example sentences of "and i [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I says I want to learn sommat so I went to and I do n't know what it was , whether it was my attitude , but they , they asked me to do this and I was so good at it , so they started finding jobs for me and it was at and I was anxious for knowledge , and I tell you took anything on , which is important and the big firms did n't . |
| 2 | Our smiles of anticipation dimmed somewhat when he led us into the coffee shop , but he was a good sort and I hope we did not embarrass him . |
| 3 | The delay in making progress has blighted the development of the provision in the area and in particular , the leaking of the report of the problems of the moat centre has brought some dreadful headlines about the area and I hope whoever leaked that document is pleased with himself herself himself theirselves . |
| 4 | And I hope you did n't forget a rope . ’ |
| 5 | Well , however it struck you , it 's a slice of life and I hope you found it interesting enough just for that . |
| 6 | And I hope you found the talk informative , interesting . |
| 7 | Johnson revealed : ‘ It was a great result for Cambridge and I hope it helped my position , but all I can do now is wait and see . |
| 8 | She said yesterday : ‘ He was nothing but scum and I hope I hurt him . |
| 9 | Well , it was a fantastic display by the boss , and I hope I did my bit . |
| 10 | ‘ I enjoyed myself immensely and I hope I did myself proud . ’ |
| 11 | It 's fairly knocked about but has vintage feel and character and I hope I ripped him off . |
| 12 | We would have visiting bands for the dances , too , and I remember one called The Five Aces who came from Copley and were very good . |
| 13 | Some people were surprised , and I remember we played up to this a bit . |
| 14 | And I remember we had two men once , one used to keep his hand very very tight , squeeze it hard and the other used to make a very big , loose , untidy , whiskery sort of a rope . |
| 15 | Our intention was to reside half the year at Southall , and the remainder in London , and I remember we moved there on the 26th June , 1830 … |
| 16 | I asked my father about the people in the adjoining houses , they must have lived in perpetual fog , and I remember he told me that perhaps they got their houses at a reduced rent . |
| 17 | And we travelled down to Brighton from London and met in his home George Albert Smith , who was then in his nineties , a charming old man , very good-looking , and very , very interested to share his experiences of the past with us , and I remember he showed us his account books . |
| 18 | I wanted to go to Scotland and I remember I came to say goodbye to my parents and that was in the evening and I went by train to Liverpool Street and it was pouring with rain and I had to make my way , I had a taxi across to Euston , you see , and er and I went up th the left side of the country , see , past Carlisle and and then across and across and then and to Greenock er er to Dunoon , you see . |
| 19 | and up the steps out of the underground there was this lass there and I , I ca n't help it I mean I 'm always aware of the fact of having this twenty five year old child , so offspring and there was a girl roughly about his age or slightly younger and she was grey you know that translucent look your skin gets when you 're not eating properly you know that grey sort of pallor and I had an overnight bag in one hand and a briefcase and a handbag in the other and I remember I walked past her and she was begging and I had gone to the sleeper and I 'm sitting there and I 'm thinking you bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep , you could of put briefcase down , overnight bag down , handbag down and got some money out . |
| 20 | As I lay on O 's chest something moved me to snap the locket open , and I remember I asked , who is that ? thinking maybe this was the solution to the mystery , and he said , in the same voice that he talked with later in the night , a sleepwalker 's voice , without taking his eyes off the ceiling he said , I do n't know ; I just found it in a magazine . |
| 21 | Well you said you had and I remember you had . |
| 22 | We would visit her on occasions and I remember she had a rather splendid grandfather clock . |
| 23 | On the whole I hate spoofs and I like everything played straight . |
| 24 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |
| 25 | I Children 's World and I got I got books . |
| 26 | And it and it 's emergency hospital on it , and I mean they 'd flown doctors out from Aberdeen , and medics off other platforms round about . |
| 27 | When they start probing you , they go right back and I mean they went back what ten , twelve years did n't they ? |
| 28 | Mervyn and Georgina , well it 's Alice the er mother and I mean they had two stunning looking girls right , but they 've both married , they 're both involved with rich farmers . |
| 29 | Yeah , I mean I 'm I 'm very lucky because my parents are very liberal , and I mean they discussed sex with me quite early on and I 've never had a problem discussing it with them . |
| 30 | And erm later on let's see f when the war started and I mean they wanted cheap labour and all that , there was room for apprentice . |