Example sentences of "and i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Sticking plasters , safety-pins , lipstick , comb , bus pass , piece of string , rubber bands , Vick inhaler , dried rose-hips that I picked last autumn and forgot to plant , and a cracked , yellowing snap of Otley and me roller-skating at Margate . |
2 | So Grandma and Grandad had one bedroom , Mother , Father and me slept in the other one , and the two brothers slept downstairs . |
3 | Just before she died , she asked Elizabeth and me to go to her room . |
4 | Would you like Bigwig and me to go over there first , by ourselves , and report back ? " |
5 | So here we are lying here just you and me thinking about things that we used to do babe , turning lady ! |
6 | At least , out here , I have — I admit this with shame — I have delivered an extended breech with the nurse giving chloroform at one end and praying and me delivering at the other end and swearing , and the baby lived , the mother lived , and everything was all right . |
7 | We conducted a two year study to assess the effectiveness of the family smoking education and smoking and me projects in influencing smoking behaviour . |
8 | ‘ Ernie and me went to school with Johnny ; Sarah was older . ’ |
9 | And then they went to the different islands and I remember this for when we were at the hotel me brother and me went across , well me was on it too we were all young then . |
10 | There there are three of us er , that is Mr Allenby Mr Heselton and me looking for an answer to a question which was about |
11 | Stephen , a boy of about sixteen in a school not far from Susan 's , told me the following story : Extract 2 : Sounds are for big people Me was trodding down de road and me come across me bredder " e — me ask " im for some money an " e say " e na got . |
12 | Recently he 'd encouraged Allie and me to talk to him . |
13 | We again slept in the cab , Sean taking the bed and me improvising with an inflatable mattress across the driver and passenger seats . |
14 | In the summer of 1924 , during my first year at Eton , Ras Tafari , later to be Emperor Haile Selassie but at that time Regent , paid a State Visit to England and invited my mother and me to call on him in London . |
15 | There was a long pause during which a kind of stage fright seized me and perhaps him too : we remained in our positions , Richard sitting up in bed and me standing at the window , looking at each other helplessly like actors who have forgotten their lines . |
16 | ‘ I did not want things that Picasso gave Douglas and me coming on the market , and Billy very decently gave me the drawing ’ . |
17 | He appeared to Mollie and me to stick to that view during the Conference until the Saturday when he told us he was consulting his doctor . |
18 | Perhaps they bugged a dozen other people as well but they 'd only hear you and me talking about naming names on her bug . |
19 | Perkin knew it was I who had remembered that the floorboards should have floated , and on Monday he 'd seen the plank on the dining-room table and heard Doone and me talking in close private consultation . |
20 | That left only Annabelle and me to help with the washing up . |
21 | ‘ The whole time since I heard that Walter would be released unconditionally I have been wondering how things will work with him being allowed out at night and to talk to whoever he wishes and me sitting at home in the evenings , gagged . ’ |
22 | The picture of it : Mum and me sitting on hard grey chairs in that clinic , me being soft-soaped by this pseud doctor , Mum being probed about my problem . |
23 | He is Cancerian and I 'm a Sagittarian and he describes it as him rushing towards the dark , and me rushing towards the light , and we both drag each other back , into a kind of middle earth . |
24 | JTR and I parted company at Rothesay ; he to go on to Arran on the Iona and me to zigzag over there via Wemyss Bay and Ardrossan ferries . |
25 | Anyway , we spent the whole round with Tom stomping off and me scurrying alongside him trying to keep up . |
26 | Then , unexpectedly , he invited Brian and me to stay in Northumberland where he had taken a grouse moor for the summer ; thereafter we went each year until he died , first to Otterburn and then to Wark . |
27 | ‘ Do n't be stupid , ’ I snap , and I suck on my Jameson 's . |
28 | Crilly comes to my bedside with a neatly prepared square of foil and a tube , and I suck from it happily . |
29 | I think most fundamentally she transmitted her inner core of pride and I acquired from him both doggedness of purpose and the confidence to decide what was just and unjust in the world as I met it . |
30 | There 's blood in your body , and I get to thinking about what would happen if your blood froze . |