Example sentences of "and i [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother did n't feel like being left all that time , so she took my two sisters and me to visit her school friend Beryl , who was married to the poet Robert Graves . |
| 2 | Now that Hindley was the master of the house , he ordered Joseph and me to spend our evenings in the small back-kitchen , as we were only servants , while he , his wife and Catherine sat in the main room . |
| 3 | and I get my book the following Monday . |
| 4 | Like , go away and I get my dinner ! |
| 5 | And it comes to the first of August , and Graham gets his car , his new X J S , and I get my new Lada , and we 've been out at midnight doing all this , but we come to the branch in the morning , and he parks his X J S there , and I park my Lada next to it . |
| 6 | It was a way of escape and I buried my nose in their fragrance . |
| 7 | I used to love riding , but I went over a jump seven years ago and the horse stopped , but I kept on going , and I fractured my back , so I thought , I 'm too old for that . |
| 8 | ‘ But if you got that for this place and I sold my apartment , together we 'd have enough money to get married and buy — ’ He broke off , a flush appearing beneath his tan as he realised he was pushing her too far along the relationship path and could also be sounding mercenary . |
| 9 | ‘ In fact , Ursula and I accepted his invitation to go over to Macau with him and Cavell Fielding on Tuesday evening for dinner and a spot of gambling in one of the casinos , and a very enjoyable few hours they were too . ’ |
| 10 | As you know , you have always had my warm personal support , and I accepted your decision with deep regret . |
| 11 | The coffee hit the spot , though , and I drank my way through the whole pot and threw in a couple of cigarettes for good measure . |
| 12 | ‘ One word of this and I tell your local rags where you learnt your craft . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I hear a song and I tell my musical director what tempo I want it in , and how it 's going to end . |
| 14 | The city has potential , and I hope your feature will be the first of many to show a side of Belfast that is usually ignored . |
| 15 | • Glad you like the magazine , Stuart , and I hope our counsel is of help . |
| 16 | Promotion is the priority and I hope our missing fans will see this as a positive move in the right direction . ’ |
| 17 | But nonetheless the literal translation I understand is that people who are Dutch citizens in this country should contact the er ambassador at thirty eight Hyde Park Gate and seek the relevant forms in order to register for the election and vote in the U K and I hope our friends er in in the Binnenhoff have taken that a little more seriously than appears to have been the case in in the Home Office . |
| 18 | When I had occasion to talk to the Home Secretary about this , I asked him about this and he said oh , we want it to be local and I said you mean local not region and he said yes , local and I hope my noble friend who was there will remember that when he comes to decide whether this region things ever going to get a running . |
| 19 | Another fine prospect is Adrian Davies , the Cambridge University captain , but he has n't been blessed with much luck recently and I hope his experiences in Australia , when some of his team-mates threw in the towel , will not have destroyed his confidence . |
| 20 | And I remember her father coming here from . |
| 21 | Little red head the first one and I remember her face |
| 22 | In those days I used to hang out at the Giaconda Cafe in Denmark Street where all broke musicians hang out , and I remember his first single came out and he dragged me into the record store next door , Francis Day & Hunter , and he said , ‘ Have a listen to this ’ . |
| 23 | We became good friends and I remember his comments one day when we were discussing the ever-rising cost of living ; Lawren said , wrinkling that high forehead under the white mane of hair , ‘ This high cost of living worries me ; one of these days , if it continues to rise , I 'll have to dip into capital ! ’ |
| 24 | The transport was a yellow fever-van drawn by a horse , and I remember my mother weeping after the bizarre vehicle had made its way slowly up the road . |
| 25 | Fifty years ago , Debussy fans could only buy records of this or that piano piece from the Préludes , Estampes , Children 's Corner and so on , and I remember my pleasure as a child in acquiring HMV 's 12-inch shellac disc of Rubinstein playing the Prélude from Pour le piano ( labelled as ‘ Prelude in A minor ’ ) coupled with Ravel 's ‘ Forlane ’ from Le tombeau de Couperin . |
| 26 | And as I I recall on a Saturday morning I used to have to take the er one and sixpence each Saturday back to this House , and they used to issue us a little receipt and I remember my father keeping all those receipts until it was paid off . |
| 27 | And erm I remember I was I was about fifteen now and my young brother was only a little tot about two I think three and I remember my father came in and he did he went straight for my mam for nothing at all . |
| 28 | Now er w w with every respect , to say that he survived it is something of a crass statement , because I remember reading about him thinking is n't this country getting good that we can have a black guardsman , and I remember my own disappointment when I read that he had to leave the regiment . |
| 29 | ‘ My father , Leslie , was his agent and I remember my father screaming down the phone at Joseph , usually about money ! |
| 30 | He smelt clean and I shut my eyes . |