Example sentences of "and [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 31 | But he raised his left hand again , this time to silence me ; took my arm and led me to the edge of the colonnade . |
| 32 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 33 | His catches at Tring on flavoured maggot were extraordinary and led me to follow him . |
| 34 | Quigley , with a short , convulsive movement that was halfway between a bow and a twitch , took my hand and led me towards her . |
| 35 | I need her to hold my hand and sit me down . |
| 36 | They will understand me too quickly ; they will turn my own generosity against me and despise me for the lovers I took ; and they will cast me as the woman who briefly threatened to interfere with the writing of the books which they have enjoyed reading . |
| 37 | I was so rattled I glanced round to make sure this was n't a signal for an army of bunnies like this Dobermann of a beast to come up from behind and tear me to shreds . |
| 38 | He sat beside me and lent me his shoulder as a back-rest . |
| 39 | But the dogs chased after me and attacked me , and I was soon knocked to the ground . |
| 40 | In the meantime , I want you all to try and build me a decent-sized castle , right ? ’ |
| 41 | I go out and tend to the suffering populace and she sits at home and patronizes me . |
| 42 | For ten days I spent all my spare time in a question-and-answer session till the experience started to confuse and hurt me , also — much to my horror — defile me . |
| 43 | Once she told me about sending her kids to boarding school and asked me what I thought . |
| 44 | He had no answer , but in the meantime the manager appeared and asked me to come into the office . |
| 45 | ‘ Sir Alfred was at Goodwood that day , ’ says Rudd , ‘ and asked me why de Graffenreid was blowing us off . |
| 46 | At last he reached me and asked me to demonstrate el thwing . |
| 47 | By this time David had started up the Arts Lab and asked me if I would teach street theatre and improvisation there , so I was destined to go to Beckenham . ’ |
| 48 | ‘ Oh , ’ she said , ‘ a friend came round and asked me to go with her … |
| 49 | She seemed flabbergasted , but rallied and asked me if I would look in at the Gray Mare in Kilburn and say ‘ hello ’ to her son Joe Kelly who worked there . |
| 50 | A surly man stepped from a trailer doorway and asked me for money . |
| 51 | Raised his cap with a pretty gesture , blushed to his eyes and asked me to come and see his work . ’ |
| 52 | Bullinger stayed with me , and asked me quietly whether I thought that there was any hope for her … |
| 53 | In late 1976 , Radio Telefis Eireann , the Irish state television service , decided to produce a documentary on Lebanon and asked me if I could locate any films that depicted the country in the days of peace . |
| 54 | He said he 'd flown over urgently to see me and asked me to come to the Cheshire Cheese , that pub in Fleet Street , at ten o'clock that night . |
| 55 | Going down the second fairway he told me he 'd lost his yardage book and asked me what I thought his second shot was . |
| 56 | ‘ He came in to the shop and asked me what he should wear on the date . |
| 57 | He thought he should acquire a sober ‘ Anthony Eden ’ black Homburg hat and asked me where to buy one . |
| 58 | While I was gazing at the chamber a schoolgirl who was touring the gallery with her father came up and asked me how it worked . |
| 59 | ‘ Much to my surprise and delight , sure enough in ‘ 84 he contacted me and asked me to take part in the Mozart ‘ Coronation ’ Mass to be performed in front of the Pope the following year . |
| 60 | ‘ Flick wrote last week and asked me to stay with them at Gerrards Cross . |