Example sentences of "and i [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He explained that his wife was a permanent invalid , unable to come to church , but said he : ‘ Since the day we got married we have shared everything we had and I am bringing this home to give to her . ’ ) |
| 2 | He is provincial ; and I am using provincial as a word of high praise . |
| 3 | I thought you would be interested to see some of the questions raised by Members so far , and I am enclosing these and the responses to them at this current stage of our thinking . |
| 4 | ‘ And I am getting used to picking you off battlefields , ’ Ratagan added . |
| 5 | I 've found it difficult to work , have n't made any friends and I am dreading next year . |
| 6 | It 's 8:15 on Friday morning , and I am writing this letter in Chambers ' car park . |
| 7 | And I am growing old before my time ( 'fore my time ) . |
| 8 | ‘ And I am growing older . |
| 9 | We need to move somewhat quickly , and I am reminded that , I did see Caroline come in , but we have two people who 've come in connection with item fifteen , Community Concerns in East Oxford , are you agreed that we take that now , so that they can |
| 10 | ‘ But I have been approached to consider seeking a nomination in another ward and I am giving that some consideration . |
| 11 | The business sponsorship incentive scheme has been a great success and I am giving further encouragement to sponsorship of the arts by increasing its budget by £1 million a year to £4.5 million . |
| 12 | Now that I had to get it to the by taxi and she had seven stitches put in the leg and , I had to leave her there for six hours , well then it was a taxi back home , I could n't now I am on income support , but that cost me fifty four pound , ninety five and I am paying that . |
| 13 | Secondly , my palette is changing and I am introducing more colours . |
| 14 | The only problem is — Francisco and I are buying this villa from Mum and Dad . |
| 15 | Good gracious , ’ she breathed , ‘ if you really do believe that Rob and I are conducting some sultry little affair , do you think that either of us would be fool enough to use an office which adjoins yours ? ’ |
| 16 | Mrs Gracie and I are leaving those poor children — there is nothing we can do for them , after all — and going back to her house in Highbury . |
| 17 | Eventually everyone leaves the room to shower and drink coffee and do all things that people usually do after intercourse — communally in this case — and Samantha and I are left alone . |
| 18 | ‘ Tatum and I are having marital problems , just as many other married couples do , ’ McEnroe said in a statement . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | People going and collecting and I 'm hoping first prize winner 's there . |
| 21 | And I 'm hoping that next year we can afford our advertising . |
| 22 | So I got together with the main designer at Ibanez in Japan and we traded ideas , and the new prototype — I 've got one already and I 'm picking another one up in a month — is very unusual , and I think a really exciting development for a jazz guitar . |
| 23 | Time , right , I am moving the amendment the reference back and I 'm handing those papers to the Chief Executive and I 'm gon na ask the Chief Executive to get someone independent to do this because you ca n't get away from the numbers that the numbers I 've get someone independent I 'll ask for that . |
| 24 | We insist the conceptual design , and I 'm underlining conceptual design , is the responsibility of the function and section engineers , who have bottom line responsibility for each project . |
| 25 | It depends what I feel like playing , because I 've got into the blues lately and I 'm learning all these licks I should have learned ten , fifteen years ago ! |
| 26 | I 've got into the blues lately and I 'm learning all these licks I should have learned ten , fifteen years ago ! |
| 27 | This is only my second season of fishing and I 'm learning all the time . |
| 28 | I , I maybe fall asleep for maybe an hour or two and then I 'm woken and I 'm coughing all the time . |
| 29 | And I 'm eating all the stuff I should n't be eating ! |
| 30 | Pamella ! ’ and I 'm just freaking out and hanging on to Tim Taylor , trying to get to the plane , and I 'm wearing this scarf on my head to cover my face and they had pulled a straw — they said this ! — for who was going to tear the veil from my face and this fat guy got it and ripped it , pulled my hair , poked me in the eye — I was physically assaulted ! |