Example sentences of "and i [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I was still living with my parents at the time and I 'd not long passed my driving test — with Bernie 's assistance — so I borrowed my old man 's Austin Cambridge one Sunday morning and drove over to Nick 's .
2 And I 'd just about begun to believe him .
3 I 'm expecting like a lights or something are flashing so I got the off the jet wash and I 'd just about got to the where I started again it 's gone bib bib bib bib bib is that it ?
4 I had done the score for Warren for Reds and I 'd never quite finished it , so I always felt I owed him one . ’
5 And I 'd certainly never sleepwalked before , if that was what I had done .
6 The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see
7 Sometimes if I 've had a particularly bad day and I go out there thinking I 'm going to have a particularly bad gig I 'll have a really great one .
8 So really it sounds the sort of thing that 'll be nice for you and I to go really just to get away from the children .
9 Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was .
10 And I got close enough to count them as they rode past .
11 He sat on the examination table in his underpants , and I noticed how desperately thin he was getting .
12 Access is easy , for although the car parks are few , they are strategically placed , and I 've not yet come across a walker with tales of local farmers barring the way .
13 And I 've not even took them out the thing .
14 Well I did n't go , no , cos Chris int going , so I did n't bother going but I must admit , I mean , when she gave me the papers and what have you that goes with it , I come home , I put it in the cupboard and I 've not even looked at it since .
15 I felt that I was using a part of me that was n't used to functioning and I 've just recently started juggling
16 And I 've just about managed to get staccato in the right hand .
17 And I 've pretty well beaten my disability .
18 And then something ha no that is completely in your mind because I 'm rude to people all the time and I 've never even thought about it and I still do things and I do n't , you know , it does n't even cross my mind .
19 Yeah , I have worked all my life in various jobs and I 've never yet met a man who hated me nor have I hated any man , and I think there must be many women here who think the same thing .
20 ‘ I have been around certain bands and been in bands and I 've never actually seen a groupie .
21 and I 've never actually seen it .
22 you know and I 've never never said anything about them
23 Well it , it , at least it 's gold , I mean , I , I , I was in the jewellery trade when I first left school , between school and national service I worked at a manufacturing jewellers in Birmingham and I 've never really gone along with the idea that nine carat is actually gold .
24 That attracted Pompey , and Whittingham explained : ‘ I decided to buy myself out for £450 and take the plunge — I 'm glad to say Portsmouth did pay me back the money — and I 've never really looked back .
25 Now I 've used it elsewhere in the garden and I 've never really had any problem with it except it is inclined to make the water very alkaline because the chippings that are quite often used on a flat roof and they 've got a very high P H and therefore you 've got to be aware that the water that comes off is not likely to be soft it 's more likely to be fair fairly hard but for reasonably tough plants I do n't think I would waste it , especially in times of water shortage .
26 And I 've really just put it up erm because erm this is a complicated story but , one does want to be careful I think about seeing the sides as too neat .
27 And it all comes over in hard black and white in his report to me , and I 've really only got what he says to go on , in that sort of case .
28 But if just once I feel I 've run as hard as I possible could , in good shape , and I 've still only done 27:50 , maybe I 'll be happy to say , ‘ Oh well , Solly , you 've been kidding yourself all along ’ . ’
29 And I 've always secretly thought , Carmen will be another spinster .
30 ‘ I 'm beginning to know exactly how they feel , ’ Lindsey smiled , ‘ and I 've always rather prided myself on having a pretty good sense of direction . ’
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