Example sentences of "and [vb past] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | The specialist diagnosed an ‘ inflamed pubic bone ’ and recommended that I wear an athletic support for sport . |
| 2 | He sent it to several publishers and recommended that I accept an offer from Norton , a fairly up-market American book firm . |
| 3 | The GP visited again 10 days after his first call and asked that I continue to review the wound regularly and alter the dressings as necessary . |
| 4 | The executives agreed and asked that I act as the facilitator . |
| 5 | I went in , explained the position I was in and asked if I could see one of the rooms . |
| 6 | ‘ He said he would be seeing Mr Moi in Bonn the following week , and asked if I would like him to set up a meeting with the president . |
| 7 | Several times it 's happened to me that someone has come up to me and asked if I 've ever done a play . |
| 8 | On a night in early winter , one of those wild exciting nights with a brilliant moon sliding in and out of the racing clouds , Mrs Browning rang , and asked if I would go down . |
| 9 | An upper-class homosexual-looking man with white hair and glittering eyes came up to me and asked if I wanted to go to a Black Mass . |
| 10 | He then turned to me and asked if I was signing a contract too . |
| 11 | When I said she did n't , he rang for his chauffeur and told me he was going to see her and asked if I wanted to go with him . |
| 12 | I rang Peter from a callbox in Paddington station and asked if I could drop in to see him before going back . |
| 13 | Nell smiled sweetly at his departing back and asked if I 'd ever noticed how important everything was to actors ? |
| 14 | There were these two outrageous guys , splashing about , and they just came up and asked if I 'd ever considered doing anything in the advertising world and I said , ‘ No . ’ |
| 15 | On 26 April I was summoned by Mr Baker to his office at the Department of Education and Science , and asked if I would chair a Working Group to prepare proposals for English in the National Curriculum . |
| 16 | I did n't want to stay so I followed her and asked if I could go along with her . |
| 17 | With that she lifted the latch , but before opening the door she turned to me and asked if I would like to go shopping with her . |
| 18 | Mum and Dad were dozing in their chairs but Dad opened his eyes as I sat down and asked if I 'd enjoyed the picture . |
| 19 | I did n't understand what she meant by this but she smiled and asked if I would like to go to the ‘ flicks ’ the following Saturday . |
| 20 | She turned to me and asked if I had spoken to my husband today , was he well , and the children . |
| 21 | A year beforehand , Chudnovsky , who was a collector from Leningrad , and a very well-known one , had been to see me and asked if I could help him . |
| 22 | ‘ About forty minutes before the train was due to arrive this man came up to me and asked if I 'd be interested in making five hundred francs . |
| 23 | A minute after I got into the water a large woman in an orange bathing cap swam up and asked if I was a newspaper correspondent . |
| 24 | But then should I also have said that Oliver rang up the next day and asked if I 'd liked them ? |
| 25 | As an afterthought I have remembered that when I worked in London in the very early twenties I once went , in my lunch hour , to the Temperance Hospital and asked if I could visit a patient , though I knew it was out of visiting hours . |
| 26 | Eventually I went along to the British Association of Psychotherapists , where I was assessed and asked if I wanted to see a male or a female therapist . |
| 27 | I wrapped my trenchcoat over the bulge and asked if I could telephone . |
| 28 | My first encounter with Kagan took place when Wilson telephoned me and asked if I would see him . |
| 29 | My mum got home from work about 10.30 p.m. and asked if I was all right , but I told her that I thought it was a false alarm . |
| 30 | Anyway , this man came up to where I was standing with my mother , and asked if I was for hire . |