Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [am/are] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have a close friend who 's pregnant , and I 'm getting to the stage where I ca n't bear to see her because I just feel so jealous . |
| 32 | And I 'm calling from the station . |
| 33 | And I 'm inundated in the garden with them . |
| 34 | Then I arrive in America , I make Robocop and I 'm grilled for the violence . |
| 35 | I make Total Recall and I 'm grilled for the violence . |
| 36 | I make Basic Instinct … and I 'm grilled for the violence . ’ |
| 37 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 38 | So I go back and I 'm standing in the doorway , and there 's this kid on the bed and he 's thrown up all over the cover and now he 's starting to shake . |
| 39 | Oh , no I 'll let you listen to it later , I ca n't be bo I 've only just played it and I 'm recording at the moment so , I 'll let you listen to it in a while . |
| 40 | It 's been a privilege to have done this and I 'm overwhelmed by the enthusiasm I 've encountered . |
| 41 | I 'm up here and I 'm perched on the ledge |
| 42 | They 're all statues and I 'm dancing into the gaps between them , rolling into the spaces like I 'm a ball of water — a red watery marble rolling along the street and nobody ca n't see me and nobody ca n't catch me . |
| 43 | And I 'm haunted by the fear that we 're going to pay a hefty price for ignoring the claims of Kenny Benjamin and Anderson Cummins . |
| 44 | I 'm up here on the … no , it 's not a stage , it 's a swimming pool , and I 'm walking along the top of it . |
| 45 | I owe you a pound , yeah , I ca n't give it to you dear because I 've still got exactly a ten pound note dear and I 'm waiting for the pools lady dear |
| 46 | But Newbon goes on to explain : ‘ He 's now gone and I 'm talking to the present managing director . |
| 47 | and I 'm putting on the spot |
| 48 | you 're losing your concentration , it 's very interesting but materials list there , types of building list there and I 'm going to the loo and I 'll come back . |
| 49 | no if I 'm going to the pub on Saturday and I 'm going to the Galleria on |
| 50 | I 'll never forget old , about two days I 'd been there , and I 'm going across the square and I see this bloke with sombreal on , so I did flung him up a salute cos that was wrong , he says come here |
| 51 | And there 's a time when my father lived at the , and I 'm going up the road this night and I hears this queer kind of grunting , and I could n't understand it of course it was dark and I hears it again . |
| 52 | But I was gon na tell you about there was one day I was at for money and I 'm coming up the road , and here this chap was standing in the road and er kind of thumbing a lift , so I says to him , I stopped and I often lift people in the road but er after he got into the , I had an old Bradford van at the time , and he said er , I said to him , I says , are you on a hiking holiday ? |
| 53 | ‘ I 've run out of money and I 'm trapped with the children and I do n't like it here . |
| 54 | I 'm in the dark hotel at the side of the black loch and it 's close to midnight and I 'm drunk but not stoned and so 's Andy and his pal Howie and I 'm sitting in the old ballroom on the lower ground floor , looking out over the waters to where grey ghostly moonlit mountains rise , tops glowing softly , capped with snow , and I 'm playing computer games . |
| 55 | You would n't back any well you made the score against any of them and I 'm sat in the studio here . |
| 56 | And I 'm concentrating on the road |
| 57 | The people slide past like fish and I 'm sucked down the street , heading for the next and then the next set of lights . |
| 58 | The truth is , Ah suppose , if ye 've got a berg sailin' down on ye and ye 're trapped in the ice there 's no thickness of steel that will save ye from gettin' crushed . |
| 59 | You are responsible for that job and you are identified on the project quality plan check list as to what you will be doing and what other members of the team will be doing . |
| 60 | No prizes for guessing what happens to the net — and you are left with the task of extricating the hedgehog without damaging the net or wasting too much time . |