Example sentences of "and i [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can not prove a personal judgment of this kind , and I do not expect immediate assent to it . |
| 2 | As my letter perhaps indicates , I am not from ‘ the old school of diplomacy ’ as your article would have readers believe , and I do not like destructive reporting in an area which merits a more measured and informed approach . |
| 3 | Supposing that I were to ask you to recommend a good , modern book to read , and I do n't mean good in the sense of morally uplifting , but perhaps more in the sense of exciting or interesting reading . |
| 4 | but these were are all crumped and I do n't want clumsy ones cos you feel as though you 've got Doctor Marten 's or something on you know |
| 5 | I 'm not controlled by food any more , and I do n't feel guilty any more . |
| 6 | Yeah erm yeah he come in Thursday , he 'd got an headache and er Tuesday but he 'd got an headache , a sore throat and I do n't feel well and I do n't want to go to college , you know , and all this rubbish . |
| 7 | And I do n't feel clear of things to do which is very miserable |
| 8 | ‘ It is a culture of our times — and I do n't feel happy ignoring it . ’ |
| 9 | It will be dark long before I arrive home and I do n't feel safe at night with only an old man like Goodison for company . ’ |
| 10 | I belong to a family I know nothing about and I do n't feel secure or grounded any longer . |
| 11 | It struck me with some foreboding because I feel that ‘ lively discussion ’ is a code word for argument and I do n't regard high-pitched argument as the best means of reaching decisions . |
| 12 | I would never hunt , I will also not demand that anybody else hunts and I do n't think other people should say to me what I should and what I should not do and I think that 's the issue . |
| 13 | I 've had an odd feeling of late , and I do n't like odd feelings . ’ |
| 14 | They 're so much more satisfactorily final and distinguished than weddings ; and christenings always fill me with great unease and pessimism and I do n't like sugared almonds . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ He 's a boring shite , though , and I do n't like boring shites . ’ |
| 16 | I think they must have there and I do n't like huge cut , I like the tiny one you can get . |
| 17 | I could envisage a long-drawn-out court case with us all ending up homeless and bankrupt , sleeping in cardboard boxes and begging for crumbs from the rich man 's Scandinavian table , and I do n't like raw herrings , yuk ! |
| 18 | and I do n't like pink clouds anymore . |
| 19 | ‘ She has not been well and I do n't mind admitting now that we were very worried , ’ he said . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm used to people calling a spade a spade , and I do n't understand sophisticated people , ’ she said quietly . |
| 21 | I 'm extremely careful at work and I do n't have indiscriminate sexual relationships . ’ |
| 22 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 23 | I mostly enjoyed staying with my friends away from home and I did not get homesick . |
| 24 | I did n't do anything , and I did n't feel pregnant . |
| 25 | And I did n't feel confident , and I was n't happy within |
| 26 | After the Tabiano incident my parents and I did n't feel happy about possessing a radio . |
| 27 | I could n't imagine her jumping over anything and I did n't think old ladies should mention their undergarments . |
| 28 | I did n't have a Valium injection and I did n't have laughing gas ( who needs that when you 've got an entertaining toothbrush ? ) , and I did n't cry or faint or bite the hygienist or do any of the things normally associated with one of my trips to the dentist . |
| 29 | It seems flimsy and awkward compared with the good-old lever , and I did n't get used to it all week . |
| 30 | And I did n't get funny numbers and silly squiggles , cos I used a reasonable package and not WordPerfect . |