Example sentences of "and i [verb] [pron] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | And me thinking I was hiding them ! |
| 2 | I 'll repeat what I said chairman , and I hope it was helpful that in terms of er er demand , I think all sectors would indicate that there is erm er demand er development demand , marked demand erm right the way er around Greater York . |
| 3 | but the Principal of the Technical Institute at Lowestoft was quite a character , a Mrs , a Miss G C and I remember it was the day after the erm , the bombing and the building was pretty well devastated and er Miss rung up and said , she 'd got an idea she said erm how about hiring a bus , a double-decker bus , I could have my classes in the bus and erm |
| 4 | And I remember it was a a one lot was a a . |
| 5 | George Underwood : ‘ When you leave school , you have to queue up and see a career 's officer and I remember I was standing right behind David in the queue and asked him what sort of job he was going to say he was looking for . |
| 6 | And I remember I was sent to er a neighbour 's house the day of the funeral , I was erm seven . |
| 7 | When he used to chase his tail and I remember I was walking I was walking round the shops with him and there 's this big alsatian and Roly was giving it cos you know how scared he was of dogs it was barking at him ! |
| 8 | All of the grooms , except one who was asleep on some hay bales , had chosen not to sit in the car with their charges , and I imagined it was because of Leslie Brown 's daunting presence : racing lads on the whole felt a companionable devotion to their horses , and I would have expected more of them to be sitting on the hay bales during the day . |
| 9 | And I got I was |
| 10 | But I mean it was it that we were taken to first , and I mean thee was a lot of people on it and I mean it had obviously saved a lot of lives . |
| 11 | Well it was at night and I mean I was lucky enough to be working which is a thing that 's probably accounted for saving a lot of people . |
| 12 | He said that 's when they put presents round and er he come in on the Friday on the Friday night and I mean I was in a right state , I mean we 've been in there about seven weeks and I was like at the point of like a nervous breakdown and he said to me how do you feel about me taking Matthew from you , so I said I he said I think you need a break . |
| 13 | And I mean it was er I accept that it 's hardly that that Russia perhaps was intervening in the interests of er of of erm of of of of er Russian policy in that area . |
| 14 | You know , I catered for my father who was disabled and I mean it was nay till I was much older , oh he is disabled ! |
| 15 | And I mean it was a difficult start , and I was in fact a junior detective for five and a half years before any alteration was made in the staff , there was no promotions or leaving so that as junior detective for five and a half years , I got all jobs that nobody else wanted |
| 16 | I was out with erm an nephew la last night and I mean it was n't icy but it was sort of getting late and it was cold . |
| 17 | The Black Bull , Boroughbridge it was wonderful really was and they treat us really , and I mean it was n't expensive and I had sa fresh salmon and duckling and oh then I |
| 18 | And I mean it was an official thing from the tax |
| 19 | ‘ Everything 's been apologised and I mean there was nothing serious happened . ’ |
| 20 | And I mean there was they walked to . |
| 21 | And I mean there was hair on the tables , you know where he 'd been |
| 22 | While I was lying there staring at the ceiling counting the number of tiles I heard a girl going ‘ ouch , ouch that hurts ’ , when I looked over she was having difficulty with the needle going in and I noticed she was barely gripping the nice bit of perspex . |
| 23 | His ball had gone into deep rough and I noticed he was walking toward it much faster than usual and he was talking to me faster . |
| 24 | And , er , and I noticed there was lines there and I thought oh , I must wipe that |
| 25 | Potential new readers of Spare Rib would not think of looking under that section for a women 's magazine , and I assumed it was a mistake on the part of overworked staff . |
| 26 | Nobody had , I 'd done it myself , you see and I did n't want to know and er I did n't want anybody to know you see but er , he was marvellous I know and I know there was something else tiny came away it 'd only be about six or eight weeks but it was , I think anyway what was lost was found and I was in hospital for about fourteen days . |
| 27 | Erm I know there had been occasion when we had people sleeping on the the stairway and you know , I think occasionally and but I think sometimes that was maybe somebody got home from a blues party , and had too much to drink or something , and they came into the warm , the heat w from the the downstairs flat , er k comes up on the stairwell , and I know there was someone sleeping there . |
| 28 | And I know he was very good to us in the war cos my father was , got a terminal illness and er he used to see that I had a bottle of whisky for dad you know , er the manager did . |
| 29 | I noticed his concern for me , and I know he was concerned , but that might have been there all along . |
| 30 | And I know I was madly , madly involved with the symphony to the extent that when it was done — and it is one of the few works I say this of — I would not dare touch it again . |