Example sentences of "i [verb] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He maybe sees a different process and and I do n't know about you Chairman but it would it would help me to see if to hear whether they they see a different process at work . |
| 2 | Also I mean that means that you might you know maybe Jan will say yeah okay as long as you you know . |
| 3 | I eat and drink like there 's no tomorrow . |
| 4 | There I snored and whinnied and gnashed for nearly three hours , awaking refreshed and raring to go at a little after one . |
| 5 | Accordingly , without ever rising from my sordid bed , I lay and groaned and babbled , and altogether gave a wonderful impression of a man in extremity . |
| 6 | Now that my wages were no longer required to subsidise the café , I scrimped and saved and redoubled my efforts on the clubs , saving the money for furniture and carpets . |
| 7 | I arose and spoke and told them that I could not and would not do it . |
| 8 | I sit and read and I 'm tightening up like this and I like that to sort of |
| 9 | I planned and connived whilst at Ludlow but never , even in my wildest dreams , did I envisage that , when we did meet , it would be in such dire circumstances ! ’ |
| 10 | Aye , he said there was a I checked and went and |
| 11 | He said : ‘ I checked and re-checked and still did n't believe it . |
| 12 | When I left school , which was in nineteen thirty , it was a bad time for employment , there was a lot of unemploy unemployed people and I tried and tried and eventually I was offered a job at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company in Bell Lane Alexander works , it was er er Squires 's were , er it 's a family er er concern , and erm it was the first offer I 'd had for employment so I took it . |
| 13 | As for the point my hon. Friend raises about the Opposition 's attitude to legislation , it is up to the Opposition to speak for themselves — and I say that knowing that they will do so honourably . |
| 14 | I say that to show that the payments are ludicrously inadequate — £6 last year , £6 this year and presumably the same next year . |
| 15 | But at the end of all I sigh and think if I could but see old England again , and the dear , dear treasures it contains , I would contentedly sit down at my working table and stroke , stroke away to the end of the chapter , that is health permitting . ’ |
| 16 | I disagree and think that a lone driver should never give lifts to strangers . |
| 17 | Anyway , she told me to bring someone so I phoned and asked if I could bring you . ’ |
| 18 | Time and again , however , I recognized the helplessness of the medical profession in the face of most of the genetic problems which I encountered and wondered if there were not some way in which more effective treatments for these diseases could be found . |
| 19 | I could , I used to run it down and er , and that 's the only reason me mother would let me , but they was pleased as punch when I stopped and went and worked for me dad again . |
| 20 | I stopped and asked if we were going the right way for the castle . |
| 21 | I went over to Sheridan to ask him to be quiet and he grabbed my wrist and tried to pull me on to his lap , and I overbalanced and fell and hit the table hard where he was sitting , and I caught the cloth somehow and pulled it with me and everything on it landed on the floor . |
| 22 | I learnt that to love and to be patient are the most important things in the world . |
| 23 | I told her how Aisha kept a close watch on what I ate and drank and how I had to take care of the house and children to pay for my board and lodging . |
| 24 | At first it was part of a dream , which vanished as soon as I woke and knew that I was alone on the broch island , lying on the turf in a sleeping-bag , with my head pillowed on my rolled-up sweater , but seemingly connected with the earth itself , from which , apparently right below my head , came a sound every bit as strange as the mermaids ' song of the seals . |
| 25 | My husband , who 's 41 , hates the fact that I smoke and moans that I eat too much . |
| 26 | Weather gets nastier here — my week in 21–28 October was warm and wet , so I lazed and read and ate — read a lot and ate a lot which , given the state of the bathroom scales , enriched both mind and body ( HA HA ) so I have been trying to eat and drink less . |
| 27 | He added : ‘ I hope and trust that ratifications will come from all countries within six months . |
| 28 | ‘ I hope and pray that the decision to give me the Nobel Peace Prize will encourage all those who pursue the cause of peace to do so in a renewed spirit of optimism and strength . ’ |
| 29 | I hope and pray that you will win — God willing , you will because you have all the ability in the world — but I have discovered over the last few days that there are people prepared to go to great lengths to stop you . |
| 30 | If it does , I hope and pray that they will stop there and leave you alone , at least for the time being . |