Example sentences of "and i [vb past] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alec led the strenuous but short-lived pitch and I continued up the long Needle Crack : sustained but never too difficult ; glorious bridging above the full height of the crag . |
| 2 | I took them to school for Sports Day and decided to try them out by sprinting across the school gymnasium , and I spiked up the wooden floor rather badly . |
| 3 | I got up , washed , dressed , and Benjamin and I went down the great sweeping wooden staircase . |
| 4 | There was a lot of undergrowth to be cleared so Stephen and I went down the following Saturday ( 17/10/92 ) to cut down and burn the weeds . |
| 5 | David and I went out the other Wednesday , he said . |
| 6 | Harvey and I came out the other side looking like a couple of spooks . |
| 7 | Yes , he said , I should go , and he would n't come , cos he ai n't got no answer to it you see , anyway I went and I started back the next morning , he called me back . |
| 8 | I forgot the departmental meeting and I bawled out the wrong kid yesterday , there 's a stack of mail that I have n't even opened in my pigeon-hole , my marking is getting pretty cursory , and I have decided regretfully that I do n't have the energy to organize the third-year science field trip this year , nor the time to prepare properly for my A-level group . |
| 9 | I made myself eat liver — they hate liver — and I gave up the odd episode of ‘ Coronation Street ’ to read them Rudyard Kipling — with actions and funny voices . |