Example sentences of "and [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not kept my old key , because I had hoped that my association with Cutwater Charters was done , so I was forced to carry my heavy pack into the tangle of dark alleys that lay behind the straw market and where I planned to find Ellen and borrow her key . |
| 2 | When I got into Holloway they have them little forms and they 've got pictures of a body with all arrows and everything , and where I had any bruises the doctor put these marks . |
| 3 | " Two weeks later I was ready to go to a place I did n't know , and where I knew no one . |
| 4 | A policeman came to call on me that Thursday evening , after Angy 's body had been found , asking what time the class ended and where I went afterwards … that sort of thing . |
| 5 | ‘ I wo n't get a fellow , I 'm from nowhere , a decent fellow would n't be able to talk about me and where I came from . |
| 6 | I see the sign saying Welcome to Inverness just as I remember where I left the car and where I left from this morning and just before I turn and stamp to the nearest desk and demand in my highest dudgeon to be taken to Edinburgh on a charted Lear if necessary or limoed immediately to the highest-starred hotel within a reasonable radius for a free overnight dinner , bed and breakfast and unlimited bar tab . |
| 7 | It took her a while to understand what I wanted and where I wanted to go . |
| 8 | The compass could tell me in which direction I had to go — it could n't tell me what lay between where I was , and where I wanted to get to . |
| 9 | And where I learned to speak ? |
| 10 | More still are for sale legally over the counter in shops like the Brass Rail on La Brea , the store that sold guns to the Black Panthers in the 1960s and where I watched white and Korean men wearing jeans queuing to buy . |
| 11 | Just to look at the cradle he had ready and waiting with its green cover there in the living room transported him , ‘ though it was only a hospital where she was lying and where I sat near her . ’ |
| 12 | And I remember one , a Yorkshireman he was appointed yardmaster of Portobello Yard , and where I worked . |
| 13 | I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni . |
| 14 | and me want a , er , not and that I got two |
| 15 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
| 16 | When I spoke I made it clear that I intended to do something about the position of the ‘ early leavers ’ and that I thought it right that people should not suffer if they transferred their pension from one job to another . |
| 17 | I warned her that Drennan was trying to bribe your father with land and that I thought your father would accept the bribe ! ’ |
| 18 | Standing up , I assured her that I was n't drunk but tired and that I thought it was time for me to walk her home . |
| 19 | And a lot of the book is concerned with developing this theme , and that I thought came out quite well in the classes , so I wo n't bother to repeat all that , because I thought we did that fairly thoroughly in , in the class . |
| 20 | that 's , that 's gon na happen and the fellows go along with it like when Tony first decided to move and that I thought oh great he 's found a place back in Basingstoke you know , we went and looked at them and everything and he turns round and changes his mind or he 's in the , you know he 's worried or nervous |
| 21 | He then said that he now had confirmation from the police and that I qualified for a transfer and would receive an offer for Govan ( where my dad is ) within a week . |
| 22 | But later , finding myself sharing a sofa with her at a friend 's dinner-party , I mentioned the film and that I understood she had approved of it . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sure that you 're aware that my mother was American and that I lived in London for many years as a boy when my father was military attaché at the German Embassy . |
| 24 | I knew that I possessed a sidereal compass and that I belonged to another world . |
| 25 | It was the sort of look between us which would have started alert interest in me if I 'd spotted it between others , and I thought I was hear to losing my grip on what I was supposed to be doing , and that I 'd better be more careful . |
| 26 | I suddenly realised that there were all these great black players around in Louisiana , and that I 'd missed them completely ! |
| 27 | I replied cautiously , acutely aware that I had n't seen Spock and Kirk do their thing for years and that I 'd only seen one episode of the new series . |
| 28 | I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it . |
| 29 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 30 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |