Example sentences of "and i [vb base] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's an apprenticeship and I get a day off each week to go to school . ’ |
| 2 | Oh , dear , she thought , half an hour late , and I get a persecution complex — of course people were n't staring at her . |
| 3 | We visit the charming sheep and I get a chance to wear my wellingtons after all . |
| 4 | He shakes his head and I get a shiver , remembering just that gesture of his , repeated and repeated so that it became like a nervous tic after a while , back in Strathspeld , after Clare 's funeral in ‘ 89 ; a gesture of disbelief , refusal , non-acceptance . |
| 5 | I 'm 32 and I get a lot of shit for it . |
| 6 | ‘ They are entertaining and patient creatures and I get a lot of pleasure from them . |
| 7 | I think about Mr Jackson and I get a sort of uncomfortable feeling when I remember he was waiting for me at the house and I did n't come back . |
| 8 | Tony and I dig a platform for the tent , lowering the snow by about seventy centimetres to give us a nice protective wall . |
| 9 | For example , we meet and I tell a joke ; we both laugh ; you respond with a joke ; we both laugh . |
| 10 | Sadly , I have n't finished it ; I have it in typescript and I hope a lot of editing will take place , but the plot is great . |
| 11 | I mean I remember when I went , first went to my cheap caravan site where there is n't a toilet and you have to walk to the toilets , and I remember a couple of times when I was little , shitting my pants on the way to the toilets , you know , cos I could n't hold it in . |
| 12 | Gombrich sombrely recalled hearing about Auschwitz while working at the BBC Monitoring Service during the war : ‘ They claimed at that time — I remember that as if it were yesterday — they claimed that at least five million people had been killed , and I remember a colleague of mine coming to me to check this figure , because it seemed impossible . |
| 13 | It was the sort of London garden which grew London Pride and smelt of snails but there was room to play cricket or French cricket on the grass ( You ca n't have five children and a nice lawn , as my Father sagely remarked ) and I remember a time when obstacle races round the gravelled path on our bicycles was popular with my sister and me . |
| 14 | And I like a man with lots of muscles and |
| 15 | I like Duane Eddy , and I like a guitar to sound twangy and hard and brittle . ’ |
| 16 | And I like a lot of the contemporary American rock groups . |
| 17 | Erm you know I like Georgian and I like a lot of other architecture but that I think has got tremendous character . |
| 18 | — Tim Loughton , of Battersea ‘ Now my name 's Binge and I like a party , but these parties are something else again . ’ |
| 19 | I was delighted to see that th on the if you are now considering buying extra funds to see an encouragement residential home places There is however an important issue where you get shall we say a quality development in a rural area , and I mean a quality development , which would be probably has to be above the rates quoted here where talk a discussion with the owners because they may not be available to local people and that does concern me a bit in rural areas . |
| 20 | And I mean a point when I was with her , right ? |
| 21 | You , erm , I use buses and cars and I use a bike as well , er , er I think that , we used to have a car and I stopped using it , I used it , we had it when the kids were small and I found it really good for getting them around and it really was necessary to young mothers but their big now and I do n't have to chauffeur . |
| 22 | When my two children are very naughty I also smack them , and I use a slipper because it 's the softest thing that comes to hand . |
| 23 | I only look towards someone like Dylan because I see the things that have happened in his career and the conclusions he 's come to and the way he 's responded to outside forces , the audience , the press … and I recognize a similarity to how I feel in my career . |
| 24 | I 've come to terms with the blow and I 've a marriage to arrange . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're hardly older than me , and I 've a year or two to go before I 'm forty . ’ |
| 26 | Setting up one 's own business is a pretty big enterprise , and I 've a five-year-old daughter whose welfare I have to consider . ’ |
| 27 | My daughter 's bringing the children over and I 've a lot to do . ’ |
| 28 | And I 've a feeling he 's lonely over there and all |
| 29 | But they 're not the only ones , by the way , I 'm also concerned about the fact that more and more young people seem to be in this syndrome and I 've a feeling that that comes down not just to government things , but also to the problems in the family as a whole . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's me on clarinet , you on horn and I 've a tuba player called Chase . |