Example sentences of "up and i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | All these little bits and pieces were starting to add up and I was getting nowhere . |
2 | but do n't get me wrong after a while I just gave up and I was getting them in bouts and I was getting through the Bonjela and the |
3 | On that particular Sunday my chaplain would n't shut up and I was getting hungry . |
4 | Yeah I 'd find it quite difficult well I could see the headlights coming up and I was thinking now how fast is that car coming up I do n't really know . |
5 | I woke up and I was aching . |
6 | so they did n't come , and I did n't go out and Gemma came up and I was sitting there talking and they had a drop , drop of wine and I had one with erm and Gemma finished her biscuits up , we 've got to get some more biscuits now Gemma brings her |
7 | Yes erm how can I say , we were invited Manchester University er to speak at dinner time , four of us went up and I was nominated as the speaker . |
8 | And I got up and I was gon na tie her up like but and by gosh I thought I 'd better make for the door again . |
9 | I filled it up and I was walking out the door as if nothing was happening and got arrested . |
10 | Well , it really speeded things up and I was making quite a bit more , but I missed the chat . |
11 | Take-off time arrived and the oil temperatures were still somewhat below the criteria , but I opened the throttles and very shortly the tail was up and I was heading down the short runway into a brisk headwind , pointing straight for the little pub outside the camp that had become a second home for us . |
12 | After about 50 minutes , three Koreans happened to turn up and I was put with them . |
13 | I dreamt about my nan and I woke up and I was crying . |
14 | Well er anyway as it , as it worked out , although I did a lot of s sloshing about , erm when I actually got to erm on to the four one four and I followed that through to the M one and straight up and I was running parallel with the M twenty five , virtually |
15 | Absolutely , and you will find when we look on the video the number of people who held up a piece of paper if you hold things up and I 'm holding this now because I 'm about to write but if if you stand here and hold a piece of paper then it 's very difficult to make symmetrical palm gestures , open palm gestures . |
16 | but now they 're all set up and I 'm left alone and the children , three of them , have n't got time to look after me to give me what I , what I need and especially one in the truth , that one is less getting in touch with me than the ones that told me the truth , boys ring me , twice , three times a week , Julia rings every , every night , but Ted rings twice or three times a week , three times I could go , the one |
17 | the weeds are coming up and I 'm having to go under the ground cover and get them . |
18 | So I 'm standing up and I 'm saying : Be careful , because it wo n't be long . ’ |
19 | I had an awful dream today , I dreamt my nan , and I woke up and I 'm crying . |