Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 And then maybe Marie and me could even get married and I could sleep in her bed , and we could be all married and that .
2 That man and me can never meet , not on any terms . ’
3 Evolution in the computer would then really take off , for the conditions would be met for a self-reinforcing " arms race " ( see Chapter 7 ) , and I dare not speculate where it would all end .
4 He had an impulse to say , ‘ This is the music of 1988 ; these are our heroes ; that building on the headland is our architecture and I dare not stop my car to help children home because they 've been taught with good reason that a strange man might abduct and rape them . ’
5 Now I cry every time I write to him and I dare n't go out in case I meet somebody else .
6 And I dare n't go . ’
7 Well I used to cycle from Gedling to Apsley , me debit was at Apsley and I used to have to cycle from there to Apsley and I used to take bit of food an and bread and cheese and pieces of anything I could pick up in me pocket , and I dare n't come home till I 'd got some business .
8 I thought maybe I 've got a puncture and I ca n't feel it or something sticking out of it or something but could n't see anything .
9 It 's dead in n it ? and I ca n't feel it .
10 There are one or two feeding problems with the infant , and I ca n't delegate until they 're ironed out . ’
11 I ca n't allow myself to rely on anyone , and I ca n't cope with anyone relying on me .
12 Darrel , Darrel and Tom and that , I mean er who , are er erm if you look at them though they 're , they 're not really that I , I , I ca n't cope with it cos I , I 'm just calmer than that and I ca n't cope with
13 And I ca n't cope walking around in my reading glasses but I 've got
14 And I ca n't lock the door .
15 And I ca n't depend on Dotty keeping guard on me .
16 I ca n't cough and I ca n't move .
17 ‘ I do n't know what the hell you 're talking about , and I ca n't comment until I do . ’
18 ‘ I can not eat properly and I ca n't sleep before a round , I get very nervous .
19 Philip and I ca n't manage .
20 You and I ca n't manage even that to any extent . ’
21 He said : ‘ I could n't do anything about Auschwitz and Dachau — and I ca n't do anything in Bosnia . ’
22 Run ! at me but the message is n't getting through , there 's something else in the way , something else pulling me back , back to Andy and back to that frozen river bank ; I hear Andy crying out and I can still see him reaching towards me and he 's about to slip away from me again and I ca n't do anything … but I can , this time I can ; I can do something and I will .
23 ‘ I think they make the boys work too hard , you see , and I ca n't do anything about it .
24 ‘ But we 'll need to talk it through , and I ca n't do that right now .
25 It do n't get done without it 's me what does it , and I ca n't do it every day with them buggers throwing stuff all over the carpet .
26 and I ca n't do it , that 's the whole point of having a supervisor
27 Do you know what I mean it is erm it 's his car and I ca n't do nothing wrong with it .
28 I 'm old , I know I 'm old and I ca n't do all the things that I used to be able to do .
29 She sounded really cheesed off about I said how 's your revision going , cos I knew she was doing revision , she went cccckkk I try a maths paper and I ca n't do that , and I a chemistry paper and I ca n't do that and I really .
30 She sounded really cheesed off about I said how 's your revision going , cos I knew she was doing revision , she went cccckkk I try a maths paper and I ca n't do that , and I a chemistry paper and I ca n't do that and I really .
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