Example sentences of "and [conj] i [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I know exactly who I am and where I stand in the world . |
2 | Probably that I 'm a genius and that I look like a donkey — or something like that |
3 | It is , however , right and proper that we do report to this sub- committee on the activities of the staff commission , and that I do in the paper before you . |
4 | The limitations are the lack of footswitching between the clean/crunch and OD1/OD2 modes , and that I see as a drawback ( unless you find you prefer one or the other and stick to it ) . |
5 | And if I go to a rugby match , I do n't want to be accused of womanising when I 'm at Cardiff Arms Park cheering and shouting . ’ |
6 | ‘ They 've been bringing their dogs to do their business in my front garden , and if I go to the council , d' you know what they 'll say ? |
7 | Nothing gives me more pleasure now and if I go to the to the libraries and a young lad I say a young man like you will come to me and say , Hello Nurse , How are you ? |
8 | And if I fall into the pulse at the start of a piece of music it is a physical joy . |
9 | ‘ And if I live in a factory town , I must speak factory language when I want it . |
10 | And since I swear like a Navvy anyway , |
11 | And so , however unwillingly , and before I return to the dark-haired girl in the coffee bar , I feel obliged to describe now an almost incredible tale about my former friend Robert . |
12 | And so , however unwillingly , and before I return to the dark-haired girl in the coffee bar , I feel obliged to describe now an almost incredible tale about my former friend Robert . ’ |
13 | It 's great , Frankie boy ; I 'm keeping to the fields and the woods and walking a lot and getting lifts and when I get near a town I look for a good fat juicy dog and I make friends with it and take it out to the woods and then I kill it and eat it . |
14 | Already this freedom has benefited him , and when I know of the good I have done him , I feel that freedom is the only way to greater purity … |
15 | And when I refer to the erm primary road network defined in the T P P . |
16 | ‘ I have to walk to the bus stop , and when I wait for the bus there 's some of them slag me off and they push you about . |
17 | Well I asked the girl and the she , we sort of sidetracked and when I come off the phone I realized that she had n't said . |
18 | and she goes why , I goes well every time I got , when I went out the other night and when I come in the other night there was Helena with her arms round Andrew , so it 's not that I , I 'm worried about it but I just think it 's a bit tarty of her cos she 's fancies the pants off Pete and as soon as my back 's turned and Pete is n't there she 's all over Andrew . |
19 | ‘ I 've always been very aware that I needed to give something back after this experience and when I read about the appeal for people prepared to give homes to the Bosnians , I decided it was time I stepped in . ’ |
20 | As Fielding led me back to our table I made a powerfully worded verbal pass at a salacious waitress , who appeared to be all for it but then came down with some deep sorrow in the kitchen , and when I burst through the double-doors to console her two men in sweat-grey T-shirts assured me there was nothing I could do for the poor child . |
21 | ‘ And when I think of the Third-World mothers who do n't even have a roof , and who still manage to love and care for their children , it 's very humbling . |
22 | Cos that really got up , up my back when the , I mean tho ai n't a ba , bad bunch of old boys but I normally go down but they they clear and once we 've done our work before dinner break they all clear off and I go down to the and then I sort of walk back more or less behind them you know , to the break like and as I go past the club , I go and wash my hands , they go straight in , I go and wash my hands and I walk past the and er we should go to dinner at quarter to twelve and I go past , it 's one minute past quarter to twelve so cos when we go in there you see quarter past twelve due to go back I always give them two or three minutes and I say that 's it , that 's , ah we was late coming in , I said no you were n't ! |
23 | The phone is ringing as I fumble with the key , my bladder is bursting and as I fall into the room I 'm undecided which call to answer first . |
24 | ‘ … and as I speed through the dark night to the abyss of oblivion , I can only say thanks , thanks for the memory … ’ |
25 | And as I arrive at the university , Martin Stephenson is well into a meandering anecdote about Hoovers , the capacity audience hanging on every word as he does what he does best . |
26 | And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them . |