Example sentences of "and i [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |
| 2 | It will form the basis of a treaty which the President and I hope to sign during the official visit to Britain which he will make later this year . |
| 3 | Usually I start in my bedroom and I like to get to the top of the stairs by the baby 's lunchtime , and then I stop and give them lunch and then I carry on and get on quite well . |
| 4 | That second night in the porch was enough and I resolved to move on the following day , whatever happened . |
| 5 | Mr Chamberlain 's services to the State are infinitely greater than any I have been able to render , but we are both men who are giving all we can give to the service of the State ; we are both men who are , or try to be , actuated by principle in our conduct ; we are men who , I think , have exactly the same views on the political problems of the day ; we are men who I believe — certainly on my side-have esteem and perhaps I may say affection for each other ; but the result of this dynamic force is that we stand here today , he prepared to go into the wilderness if he should be compelled to forsake the Prime Minister , and I prepared to go into the wilderness if I should be compelled to stay with him . |
| 6 | I knew I should not miss that appointment with him and I had to succeed in the match , ’ he said . |
| 7 | One of these blows actually ricked my neck and I had to lie on the floor beneath the table until it was okay to come up again . |
| 8 | So then er and I had to do with the antique . |
| 9 | ‘ I was one of the richest people in the country , and I had to go to the bank to borrow money to buy my house , ’ recalls Koch . |
| 10 | Mind you , mind you I went er through Newark the other day and I had to go round the mountains to get back on that road out to Lincoln . |
| 11 | It was already nearly six o'clock , and I would n't be able to find a one-hour photo lab open anywhere that evening ; and I had to return to the Sheraton to collect my bag , and be back on the train by seven-thirty or soon after . |
| 12 | And I had to help with the harvest too . |
| 13 | ‘ The roof has leaked for a year , ’ John said , ‘ and I had to cover over the electrics to protect them from the rain . |
| 14 | Faith , her boyfriend and I waited to ride on the same flight as the box . |
| 15 | Those of you that have children or er are involved in education in any way at the moment will be well aware of the cut and problems that are going on er within reorganization within education in this country at the moment and I learnt to sail through the National School Sailing Association a long time ago er and thousands and thousands of youngsters have done that over the years . |
| 16 | Denis Healey is another politician I admire , and I tend to agree with the view that he is the best leader the Labour Party never had . |
| 17 | The person on duty disappeared out the back and I went to sit in the same seat where I had sat the night before . |
| 18 | Maybe I was less fortunate than my colleagues in my experience of Heathrow , but even my landlady in Twickenham was a most severe character , as mean as mustard with food and I seemed to live in the expensive Airport restaurant even when I was off duty . |
| 19 | ‘ It was a trip of a lifetime and I intend to return to the States self-financed , I expect . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It was the trip of a lifetime and I intend to return to the States — self-financed , I expect . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The days grew warm and I began to hop around the cage and try to fly again . |
| 22 | Dawn broke as the field passed through a shuttered Bridgetown , and I began to pass through the field . |
| 23 | A cat dashed over my feet at one point and I began to think about the disembodied hand in the film . |
| 24 | ‘ And I want to come to the wedding , whenever it is . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I want to feed the ducks , and I want to play in the sandpit . |
| 26 | Look , I know something 's going on here — and I want to get to the bottom of it . ’ |
| 27 | And I promise to help with the washing up . ’ |
| 28 | After take-off , a miracle I might have thought in other circumstances , the stewardess handed me a sickly sweet fruit drink and I tried to peer through the tight lattice of scratch marks on the window at the Andes , at the snow , at the jungle . |
| 29 | My scope here is necessarily limited , and I propose to concentrate on the relationships between the political parties and the social collectivities which have furnished their support blocs . |
| 30 | The wood-cuts were on display at the Rick Institute in Kilmanock , and I happened to visit on the day of the General Election . |