Example sentences of "and i [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I says , what on earth 's that , I says , there 's something in that ditch , and I went back and I looked and here 's Old Bob lying on his back in the ditch and the water running round each side of his head . |
| 2 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 3 | said down the corridor he walked in his full uniform , the first morning say and that memory son will always stick ya , cos when I give her over that picture of the twins at Christmas , she , she looked up , she sort of looked up at me , she said I 've got tears in my eyes have n't I , and I looked and like I was choked as well and I , she sort of , I said yeah you are and she said , every time I look at them it brings back those memories the first memories of this little boy |
| 4 | Anyway I were looking and I looked and I looked and I looked and I says well what cigarettes do you use for it ? |
| 5 | Anyway I were looking and I looked and I looked and I looked and I says well what cigarettes do you use for it ? |
| 6 | Anyway I were looking and I looked and I looked and I looked and I says well what cigarettes do you use for it ? |
| 7 | Well Martin , Joe , er er Martin just said erm what would look nicer in there are some erm some mushrooms , and I looked and I thought , well we always do mushrooms in |
| 8 | I go up to her and I go cos it makes her sick but I 'm not actually doing it I 'm just making the sound . |
| 9 | So she puts a dress on , when she feels well enough , and I go and look and she talks to me about the times she wore it before . |
| 10 | that was the first time we had an inkling there was anything , and that was the Sunday before we moved and he said do you mind if I come and bring the shed up and then I can stop in there and I go and have , a , anyway , he came with Alan and she made you a cup of coffee did n't she ? |
| 11 | And I go and he goes no I did n't think so . |
| 12 | there 's two elements in relation to the air conditioning itself , er spreading viruses , and we take two preventative actions one of which is that we spray all the air conditioning ducts work quarterly with , what 's known , as a virucide and I relate that to the equivalent of sticking a a toilet block in the toilet , it kills all all known airborne germs sort of thing . |
| 13 | Jamila never closed the door , so Changez and I drank and looked through at our Jamila 's concentrating-so-hard profile , head bowed , as she read and sang and wrote in old school exercise books . |
| 14 | And I worry that the tension of gambling might be bad for the heart . ’ |
| 15 | We gained energy from each other and I determined that this strength must be used creatively . |
| 16 | There was no way I wanted to be robbed again and I determined if I had to stand in a queue it would be with this chain in my hand . |
| 17 | And I liken that to the power from above which can execute our sinful selves . |
| 18 | Such writing rapidly palls , and I hope that in the novels to come , Motion can curb his reckless passion for it . |
| 19 | ‘ His investigative talent , which he displayed in this instance , will no doubt stand him in good stead in the future and I hope that he will have a long and distinguished career , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Success in this field is going to become even more important as we move into the 1990s and beyond and I hope that in this book I 've been able to give you the benefit of my experience , to pass on the kind of backstage know-how that can make that vital difference between winning and losing . |
| 21 | ‘ And I hope that we shall be paying the taxman quite soon , ’ he beams . |
| 22 | At £12.50 the book is good value , and I hope that chemists will find it useful as an introduction to an area of growing interest and application . |
| 23 | We are , therefore , anxious that he should not be thrown away in some other role and I hope that any plan he has made will be carefully examined so as to ensure that as far as possible he does not do something foolhardy . |
| 24 | This is a very useful book , and I hope that the organisers can be persuaded to hold other symposia covering areas they were not able to cover this time — eg corrosion inhibition in manufacturing engineering . |
| 25 | Presumably that 's why you read the column , and I hope that you are considerably richer as a result . |
| 26 | ‘ And I hope that stepmother of yours appreciates it , too . |
| 27 | In addition , I had hoped to put in motion programmes in 3 separate areas and I hope that they still may be started in the not too distant future . |
| 28 | I am not due home for another year or so and I hope that by then a little more of the Peruvian culture and faith will have rubbed off on me . |
| 29 | The Labour Party does not believe that councils or schools should promote homosexuality , and I hope that no-one in the Committee has any doubt about that ... |
| 30 | By this time , the whirligig of time had actually brought Hill back into fashion , and I hope that his shade had a cackle at the sight of the Thames executives attempting to clamber back on to the bandwagon . |