Example sentences of "and [verb] i [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Must now conclude trusting my dear that every blessing will attend you and trusting I may find you well when I return — kiss dear Fritz [ ? ] for me and believe me to remain Eliza |
| 2 | And suggesting I 'd creep out and send a postcard to some , well , some girlfriend or another ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If you were n't already so bruised and battered I 'd turn you over my knee and make sure you had nothing to laugh about . ’ |
| 4 | And as I became more intoxicated and frustrated I 'd throw open the bedroom window as the dawn came up , and look across the gardens , lawns , greenhouses , sheds and curtained windows . |
| 5 | With the sails furled , the device could be made to fold inward to the mast for loading and unloading I would suggest that here , a good idea lies begging . |
| 6 | I said you and I were man and wife , and to lose me would break or damage your bond with the King . |
| 7 | I may be tempted to offer the spontaneous inclination itself as reason for my choice , and say I shall do it because I want to do it ; but in examining myself objectively I see that a fact about my wants and likes would be directly relevant only to a causal explanation of my actions , and could be used in deciding what to do only as I use any other objective facts . |
| 8 | I would prefer not to have my guy stand up and say I may have been involved in an assassination . ’ |
| 9 | Well if we 're not I 'll ring him up and say I 'll say er |
| 10 | Should watch that clock and say I 'll have one every two hours . |
| 11 | they ca n't tell the difference I mean there 's nothing In fact if I ca n't get Krona at Presto and I ca n't get it at Co-op , I shall write to Kr to Pre to Krona and say I 'll have a I 'll have a box . |
| 12 | If you decide you want to a buy a new cooker and you go to the Gas Showrooms or the Electricity Showrooms and say I 'd like to buy that cooker there and I would like to spread the payments over time , normally nowadays twenty four months or thirty six months . |
| 13 | I went home every weekend for three nights and on Wednesday night , and believed I could blast up the motorway when summoned for the birth . |
| 14 | The Great Britain skipper , out for four of the last six games with hamstring trouble , said : ‘ I 'm glad to be back and hope I can sort things out with the club without too much fuss . ’ |
| 15 | Well yeah , I 've had a come for one day , pay for a day and hope I can sneak in on the two day . |
| 16 | Dublin said : ‘ I hope my first goal will now help me settle and show I can score more for the club and the fans who have been so good . ’ |
| 17 | He had said : ‘ I hope my first goal will help me settle and show I can score more for the club . |
| 18 | But what we 're proposing here essentially , is to say we 've got a seventy thousand pound contingency not specifically allocated , we will reduce that down to thirty thousand , but within that thirty thousand we will have to deal with requests we get to increase grants to people who 're already in receipt of grant support , and also we 've also found it extremely helpful to have a small reserve so that when a body comes along and says I would do this for you , but I do need a small grant in order to do it , and you 're effectively buying a hundred thousand pounds worth of service for ten thousand pounds , that you have actually got a ten thousand pounds to put it in , rather than funding everyone , so that 's basically the policy behind it Chair . |
| 19 | I just would n't , if she rang up and says I 'd say no thanks . |
| 20 | It 's an eight-way-scrolling arcade extravaganza with graphics and sound I could have cheerfully shot my grandmother for . |
| 21 | ‘ But this gives me confidence and shows I can do well on grass . ’ |
| 22 | If I do n't want anything I , I just go in there and I think well I 'll just go and see I may see something which catches my eye . |
| 23 | I really did enjoy myself in the Tests last summer and know I can reproduce that form again . ’ |
| 24 | But I have been divorced 30 years and know I 'd feel the same as the man who was jailed if I found my wife in the arms of someone else . |
| 25 | The clash of ginger on pink as a small skipper butterfly lands on petals of camp ion ; gorse pods popping in the hot sun ; small striped snails creeping out on to the wet path after a cloud burst ; soldier beetles gathered on the white umbels of wild carrot : these sights and sounds I can enjoy at my pottering leisure — whilst the hordes of laden hikers tramp by with stern faces and never a glance to left or right . |
| 26 | But the company 's past and present I can sum up quite quickly , if you like . |
| 27 | I was so elated and relieved I could have kissed them , but immediately felt ashamed that I 'd let them see my fear . |
| 28 | And I , I suspect that they 're on their way out because the way they leap and scream and bang and thump I should think that they , most of them have been on drugs . |
| 29 | As we sat in the garden behind his surf shop and talked I could feel the long grass beneath my feet with a sensual awareness I 'd never experienced before . |
| 30 | A Man must have seen me take stance there regularly and known I might come back again . |