Example sentences of "and [conj] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not kept my old key , because I had hoped that my association with Cutwater Charters was done , so I was forced to carry my heavy pack into the tangle of dark alleys that lay behind the straw market and where I planned to find Ellen and borrow her key . |
| 2 | That , and my only tape , ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ , reminding me of where I 've been and where I 've come from . |
| 3 | If I may my Lord there is an issue that was raised in my learned friends reply er which er was a new point er and where I do take issue with him and this concerns the issue of the relevance of the directive here the , the issue relating to er whether or not the er Lloyd 's Act and the society have got any relevance in respect of the directive , his submission as I understood it , was that under article one , eight , nine the directive only addressed itself to states , to the British Government and that therefore the reliance on the directive by the society and in relation to the Lloyds Act was er a misconceived er reliance . |
| 4 | It took her a while to understand what I wanted and where I wanted to go . |
| 5 | The compass could tell me in which direction I had to go — it could n't tell me what lay between where I was , and where I wanted to get to . |
| 6 | And where I learned to speak ? |
| 7 | And a lot of the book is concerned with developing this theme , and that I thought came out quite well in the classes , so I wo n't bother to repeat all that , because I thought we did that fairly thoroughly in , in the class . |
| 8 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 9 | I suddenly realised that there were all these great black players around in Louisiana , and that I 'd missed them completely ! |
| 10 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 11 | I told her who I was , and that I had met her father . |
| 12 | That she had lied to me , that my father had been betrayed by Mills and that I had avenged her husband 's memory . |
| 13 | He said he did n't want to see my baby , and that I had to go into a home for unmarried mothers . |
| 14 | He had written a book called Stilfragen on the history of the acanthus motif , and that I had studied as a student . |
| 15 | I said , more 's the pity and that I had seen the term both in the Petit Larousse Moderne and the Figaro Littéraire . |
| 16 | One afternoon , when Aunt Lilian was lying down , I told Aunt Kit that Richard was on the ‘ other side ’ over Suez and that I had decided to leave him . |
| 17 | I told him that this bizarre gift had frightened me , made me feel vulnerable ; and that I had felt compelled to develop a magical system of my own to prevent my hyperactive visual memory from destroying me altogether . |
| 18 | It was also agreed that the gallery had been overheated and airless and that I had drunk too much . |
| 19 | She added , ‘ He 's very good to Margaret ’ , and I felt that simultaneously she had nodded towards the past while affirming the present and that I had fallen somewhere between the two : nothing but the body of a ghost , nebulous and deserted . |
| 20 | I knew it did me good to be reminded of how much I loathed the suburbs , and that I had to continue my journey into London and a new life , ensuring I got away from people and streets like this . |
| 21 | Stopping to ask a local woman where I might find Dr Mareda , I discovered that I was speaking to his companion , Vera , and that I had stopped outside their front door . |
| 22 | After nine months of tests , I was told that there was ‘ probably ’ nothing wrong with my kidneys and that I had had a bladder infection . |
| 23 | She was delighted that the coffee was real and that I had used a glass jug on a silver stand , where a nightlight kept it steaming . |
| 24 | I told him that I was English , an ex-paratrooper and that I had come to be a legionnaire . |
| 25 | The reader who has survived so far may recall that during my wartime service in the Navy I had nursed a great curiosity about the enemy we rarely saw , and that I had promised myself that at some time in the future I would find out more about them , the ships they had fought in and the sort of people they were . |
| 26 | They were spreading rumours that Mac and I knew the starter and that I had got away with a false start . |
| 27 | ‘ I was imprisoned and held captive by the very forces I had so long sought to perfect and that I had honed and polished until they were stronger and more glittering than anything ever known at Tara . |
| 28 | That one , that 's the big toe , is where the foot actually is twisted outwards this one is where the foot is curved under , and that I 've put in red because it 's the most common sort , very common , that is where the foot is forced up and that one is where it looks as though it 's standing on its toes . |
| 29 | I only mentioned it because I want you to know that I realise the problems we 're facing — and that I 've got plans to put us back on our feet . |
| 30 | How many times have you supposed to have taken something back or have it repaired or something and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there and it 's collected du , I 've got things round the house that I 've been working on and that I 've got ta , I 've got ta and it 's collected dust . |