Example sentences of "and i [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Jamila never closed the door , so Changez and I drank and looked through at our Jamila 's concentrating-so-hard profile , head bowed , as she read and sang and wrote in old school exercise books .
2 ( Anne ) and " I 'd forgotten quite how hot it is " ( me ) , and I stared and stared at her .
3 And thirdly there 's a meeting at Stansted Airport of the Committee tomorrow and I wrote and said so to the Committee and said could we discuss this with the Committee tomorrow and again I asked for information to be available to the public and particularly to local Councils so they could alter the situation .
4 Well I told you what she said about her and Sandra you know and I wrote and said when they you know if they felt like coming for a day that 'll be alright I said but do n't be having anything to eat I 'll bring in sandwiches , I mean I , I know I 've said it 's very kind of Sandra to say , but you ca n't , they , way your relatives are coming and bringing sandwiches can ya ?
5 Ilsa and I wrote and spoke on the phone occasionally for a number of years .
6 And I laughed and laughed and laughed and I put it in and you know what happened then .
7 ‘ Look here , ’ Hugo said , ‘ surely I had something to do with it ? ’ and I laughed and said , ‘ How could you not ?
8 It is usually held in October or November and I thought that holding it today perhaps heralded better news or that we were on the brink of a breakthrough or a decision .
9 it 's four minutes without the description , then four minutes with it and , and I thought that does n't concur with what Cath said to me on Thursday afternoon
10 It 's early days but if the injury hung around and I thought that pulling out of the world championships was a necessary course of action to prevent more serious problems , I 'd do it without hesitation . ’
11 I was born and brought up in this town and I thought and hoped my future was here .
12 In September 1977 , my girlfriend Lynn and I eloped and tried to get married at the Ali-Shavers bout .
13 A courageous and independent elderly woman once said this to me , and I understood and respected her feelings ; for few elderly people want to give up their own home and go to live with relatives .
14 Alec and I lowered and carried Father by turns .
15 Frankly she goes , she goes yeah he 's alright she said but he 's too two faced and I said that does n't sound like him , I said I thought he was quite nice and she goes yeah well he is she says he says one thing to you and then you find out that he 's said something completely different and you hear another side of it .
16 Well , she tells me that she is going to throw Shaun out because Shaun is boring , er , Don put her , Shaun she has no respect for she says because he has n't got a job , he wo n't get a job , he wo n't work , and she said to Lee what did I think of the idea of taking Pete back , once they were properly divorced take Pete back just as a lover and I said that sounds to me to be a very good idea , I said then your not at his mercy because anybody who 's at Pete 's mercy will suffer , his got a very nasty streak , his got a nasty snide way of putting things .
17 His father and I owned and ran the Ontario Raceworld magazine for years before we sold it to a conglomerate . ’
18 I suddenly cottoned on to what he was up to , and I ran and fetched our short washing-line , the one my mum used for dusters and tea-cloths .
19 ‘ So we did that and I went and told everybody , because I was like sixteen at the time I did it .
20 We said goodbye , and I went and waited in the hall , which was ablaze with the Matisse colours of Christmas decorations .
21 A year I had all the symptoms and I went and got a book and read about it and tried to find out as much possible about it and the book scared me silly because it told me all these things that could happen
22 so 's tonight I 'm a different person cos I 've put make up and I went and got my hair done and I feel different tonight but I do n't feel under pressure that I have to wear make up all the time cos nobody treats me any different whether I 've got make up on or whether
23 So I got it off Maggie and I went and got yours back , fetched it back over did n't I ?
24 But then when I left library I just got fed up and I went and went down to help Sue did n't I ?
25 Bang a drum and it answers back , so I was working on a street market at the time and I went and bought a drum and started to learn .
26 Also a photo of all the officers of Walsall that I saw in a second hand shop and I went and bought it for a few pence .
27 He was sitting at his desk and I went and put my arms round him from behind , and nuzzled his ear .
28 I did enjoy physics , but I found geography a lot easier , and I went and spoke to my careers worker at school .
29 He took me down to London and I went and did an audition and I first appeared at what is now the Shaftesbury Theatre at the top of Shaftesbury Avenue .
30 I wanted to make sure they were long enough , and I went and started at Christmas , and I , er , this is so gross , and I just felt the scummiest thing , it was sort of , it 's not exactly how you wan na feel just before you get married , and then I went and had my legs shaved er waxed .
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