Example sentences of "and i [verb] [vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . ’ |
7 | And I 've disabled the Tertiary Controls , of course . |
8 | ‘ And I 've reached the grim forties , ’ said Masha , pouting her lush red lips . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | And I 've eaten the other nana . |
11 | And I 've seen the old man in this state before . |
12 | And I 've lost the second one . |
13 | And I 've got the standard cost here I need to get up . |
14 | Yes and I 've got the smelly straw now . |
15 | I 've got the narrow and I 've got the thick . |
16 | And I 've got the very task for her ! ’ |
17 | ‘ 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 . |
18 | resources and her own houses in America , and I 've got the same thing here . |
19 | I took on this franchise 2 years ago and I 've got the same amount of customers now as I had then . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | And I had locked the back door . |
22 | We had held the reception at the melin , and I had conceived the pretty idea of decorating it throughout with wild flowers . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | As you must know , Barbara and I had left the Black Swan before she drowned . ’ |
26 | In recent months I have had the opportunity to go to Kashmir by arrangement with both the Pakistani Government and the Indian Government , and I have seen the profound suffering among Kashmiris of both religions — Hindu and Muslim . |
27 | Johnson 's superiority complex goes on show : while there , he used the power of his frown and his supervening wit to silence MacAulay 's disregard for the English clergy : ‘ This is a day of novelties : I have seen old trees in Scotland , and I have heard the English clergy treated with disrespect . ’ |
28 | Forced to reply the following July to acknowledge a sum of fifty francs from Theo , he said grimly that he was writing ‘ with some reluctance ’ because ‘ you have become a total stranger to me , and I have become the same to you . ’ |
29 | I use it for a wide sleeve gathered in at the bottom and I have knitted the main part of the garment with a 2x1 welt . |
30 | So I have to say that though I at this moment very close to this in the smallest county of England I have also had experience in three other major counties in mainland England er and I have found the same experience the difficulty of finding people who will even be councillors or magistrates , let alone these other jobs that the er that the er Home Secretary seeks to find . |