Example sentences of "and i [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd felt powerless when I was abused as a child and I 'd felt the same powerlessness with the bank manager . |
| 2 | On this occasion the N1 cam was to the right of centre and I 'd knitted the right side of the neck correctly , with no problem . |
| 3 | I had made my decision and I 'd taken the first step . |
| 4 | Eyes looking back and I 'd got the old bit moving all the time keeping , he said righto get out , you 're leading me , they were too pleased to get rid of them . |
| 5 | and I like to see the little ones but er concert no . |
| 6 | I like to watch the phosphorescence curling away from the hull and I like to watch the brilliant specks of light fade in the black deep water far in the ship 's wake . |
| 7 | I have in the last couple of lectures erm outlined or tried to outline erm Locke 's basic decision erm his concept of how we as individuals are related to nature , to each other and I 've emphasised the crucial importance of this notion of how we are related to God . |
| 8 | She said , ‘ Come to my dinner party ’ , and she said ‘ Why not ? ’ , and she said , ‘ Beuno will be here and the Molesworth are coming , and I 've asked the two girls who are staying at Ty Fach . ’ |
| 9 | And I 've disabled the Tertiary Controls , of course . |
| 10 | ‘ And I 've reached the grim forties , ’ said Masha , pouting her lush red lips . |
| 11 | Many 's the time I 've been with people whose eyes glazed over when I 've said I was a feminist and I 've done the same with people who say they love to play golf . |
| 12 | And I 've eaten the other nana . |
| 13 | And I 've seen the old man in this state before . |
| 14 | And I 've lost the second one . |
| 15 | And I 've got the standard cost here I need to get up . |
| 16 | Yes and I 've got the smelly straw now . |
| 17 | I 've got the narrow and I 've got the thick . |
| 18 | And I 've got the very task for her ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Look , if I live next door to an enemy and he has a knife , a gun and a machine gun and I 've got the same , I 'm not going to chuck mine before he chucks his . |
| 20 | resources and her own houses in America , and I 've got the same thing here . |
| 21 | I took on this franchise 2 years ago and I 've got the same amount of customers now as I had then . |
| 22 | I have fished some of the best salmon water , giving the damned fish every opportunity to outwit me , and I 've caught the odd one here and there . |
| 23 | And I had locked the back door . |
| 24 | We had held the reception at the melin , and I had conceived the pretty idea of decorating it throughout with wild flowers . |
| 25 | Partly I bad believed for reasons which were extraneous , and I had used the emotional commitment I had found in this to cover for a lack of genuine commitment . |
| 26 | It was the one shared walk of the Rambles and I had forgotten the golden rule when introducing someone to the hills , never to stretch them beyond their ability . |
| 27 | And I had to get the old erm quilt down . |
| 28 | There was no water-borne sanitation , and every other day Tidey and I had to empty the few sanitary buckets , burying their contents in holes dug in the garden , as well as trying to keep the houses clean and collecting fruit and vegetables . |
| 29 | As you must know , Barbara and I had left the Black Swan before she drowned . ’ |
| 30 | All on the same alder tree we saw coal tits , gold crests , marsh willow tits and long-tailed tits and I learnt to distinguish the whip-like whistling note of the marsh tit . |