Example sentences of "and [conj] i [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steven suggested Spenser and Shakespeare , with perhaps Scott and Hardy , and if I insisted on an up-to-date author , William Goulding . |
| 2 | If I lay on my side , my shoulders and hips gave me particular trouble ; if I lay on my front , my back ached ; and if I lay on my back , the springs of the mattress dug into what little flesh I had left . |
| 3 | You 're just a piece of shit and if I stepped on you I 'd scrape you off my shoe . |
| 4 | They were absolutely horrid and if I went on the beach , the first thing I did was to dig a hole in the sand to put the feet in and then just stay there all day … . |
| 5 | I pulled up outside Tremayne 's house and while I put on my socks again she said she would come in for a while for company , ‘ to cure the trembles ’ . |
| 6 | When he 's finished his ballet routine — ‘ Lots of people come to see what Joe Mangle is going to do , and when I appear on stage doing my best arabesque , you can feel people thinking ‘ Oh no , he 's really lost the plot ’ — he throws out a few one-liners . |
| 7 | The others went in the car and when I arrived on the bike a little later they 'd been down the 51 steps to the house and found it like the Marie Celeste , everything open , radio playing but no-one around . |
| 8 | Brand told me that they 'd been friendly from way back and when I leaned on him a bit he admitted that they 'd had a thing going but it had been broken off two or three years ago . ’ |
| 9 | And as I went on not getting jobs , I felt my credibility was on the line . |
| 10 | Certainly she presented me with my medal for the 100 metres and as I stood on the plinth she did not bat an eyelid . |
| 11 | And as I sat on the beach , I idly picked up some of the myriad stones lying on the shore , and one of them surprised me with its remarkable colours — it was pure marble glistening and sparkling with mica particles imbedded in it . |