Example sentences of "and i [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But think of this as us helping each other — you get the promotion , and I get to take out the most beautiful woman in the office ! ’ he winked . |
| 2 | It was a little bit awkward , because she wanted to spend a long weekend there in July , and I had to sort out the dates with Alex to make sure they did n't clash . |
| 3 | It was a bad moment and I had to put down a swift impulse to rush to the side and throw myself over . |
| 4 | He turned left down an alley without indicating and I had to carve up a Volvo with Swedish number plates in order to follow him . |
| 5 | ’ And I had to come out a minute early to pay it back . |
| 6 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 7 | She was getting tired of the equipment — the leash and ring and creance — slowing her down , and I had to pluck up the courage to let her fly free for the first time . |
| 8 | Certainly , if I were a script writer , and I had to think up the most inappropriate name for a girl dressed as a man , the above tendencies would lead me to choose a monosyllabic form , using a closed syllable , ending in a consonant as far away from a continuant as I can find — a plosive — and with a vowel as far away from /i/ as I can find , such as /a/ or /o/ . |
| 9 | ( 28/12/92 ) : Stephen , Richard Newcombe and I went to sum up the move to Ron Davies 's barn . |
| 10 | Then suddenly I get all cold , and I have to jump around a bit to get warm . |
| 11 | I read in an old Practical Fishkeeping an article on setting up a South American general community , this set me thinking and I decided to set up a South American Catfish community with a view to keeping some of the more readily-available , but hard to breed catfish and to provide them with the optimum conditions and numbers to hopefully have some breeding success . |
| 12 | Hardly any of them replied and Chris , Nick and I decided to follow up the letters with phone calls . |