Example sentences of "and i [be] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both cases the wages of journeywomen were so low that he associates them with prostitution : " Take a survey of all the common women of the town , who take their walks between Charing Cross and Fleet Ditch , and I am persuaded more than half of them have been bred milliners . " |
| 2 | They actually think that when Matt and I are dressed up as Jesuits we actually are Jesuits ! |
| 3 | And for us to go forward that is the first major thing we need to do and I 'm appealing today that if people can give us two hours on Saturday morning or a Friday afternoon , we need people , we do n't need two people on a street corner cos we 've done it and it is it we do n't get the effect we want , because most people walk past us . |
| 4 | ‘ The moment those lights go out , ’ said Birkett , ‘ I 'm getting behind that stove and I 'm staying there until the whole shooting match is over ’ |
| 5 | There are kids near the railings playing Piss On The Most Petunias , and I 'm lurking about like I want one of those little boys with chipolatas for my tea . |
| 6 | I 've taken the lorry back to the depot and I 'm walking home if that 's what 's worrying you . |
| 7 | You see I I think er er probably one of the best erm Ministers of er of er Education that er has been for quite some considerable time and I bet you throw your hands up in horror when I say this you will totally disagree and I 'm talking here cos his name 's just slipped out of my mind . |
| 8 | And I 'm driving along and I 'm thinking all about Christmas |
| 9 | And I 'm going up as well , but I 'm |
| 10 | and I do n't give any of this shit with lights If they 're doing seventy miles an hour , and I 'm going faster and they 're , all the overtaking lanes are taken , then I 'll slow down to their speed , I wo n't |
| 11 | And I 'm finding now that my grandchildren are just the same . |
| 12 | and up the steps out of the underground there was this lass there and I , I ca n't help it I mean I 'm always aware of the fact of having this twenty five year old child , so offspring and there was a girl roughly about his age or slightly younger and she was grey you know that translucent look your skin gets when you 're not eating properly you know that grey sort of pallor and I had an overnight bag in one hand and a briefcase and a handbag in the other and I remember I walked past her and she was begging and I had gone to the sleeper and I 'm sitting there and I 'm thinking you bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep , you could of put briefcase down , overnight bag down , handbag down and got some money out . |
| 13 | I had wanted to regain the weight in a controlled , steady way , but instead I find myself stuffing wildly ( mostly when I 'm babysitting ) : biscuits , chocolate , great hunks of cheese , cakes , pasties ; and I 'm feeling more and more anxious as the food runs out — I end up eating dog biscuits , and frozen cakes and Angel Delight powder and raw jelly and dry cereal . |
| 14 | The roller-coaster cliff-top walk was tiring but both Vanessa and I were spurred on as we approached the final climb up Golden Cap . |
| 15 | He and I were eating heartily when Byron threw down his fork and cried , ‘ Oh for the horrors of polite society again ! |
| 16 | Once once I opened the door and I were knocked back and all me rent and . |
| 17 | At the time I was playing a Les Paul , which was n't my first choice because I had been playing Telecasters when Stevie ( Nicks ) and I were working together before we joined Fleetwood Mac , but when we joined the band there was an existing sound and the Telecaster was n't cutting it . |
| 18 | I hoped there was somewhere to sit down , it was nearly half-past eleven and I was worn out and hot and sticky with all this wandering . |
| 19 | Nothing was to be removed , and I was to go home and keep my head down . |
| 20 | I was beginning to feel sleepy , and very cold ; the temperature seemed to have gone down , and I was shivering even while I sweated from the furnace-like emanations of the curry . |
| 21 | They did and I was dragged out and thrown on to the grass . |
| 22 | And I was called back and they said Right . |
| 23 | There was n't any new town or anything and er they 'd built those er Council houses in the front in and he also erm , he said would I like a nice new house , to have plenty of hot water for the boys for bathing and everything , so I moved into a four bedroom and er I was there , er brought my family up there for , till er , unfortunately my mother came to live with me and unfortunately erm I had to go away erm because I was n't very well on a holiday and I was called back cos she was found dead on the toilet my poor mother and er after that erm I came back and erm , in the middle of the week from holiday , oh bother it will it be okay ? |
| 24 | But the dogs were very fast and I was getting closer and closer to him . |
| 25 | and I was dancing about and I said , I 'm not gon na make it . |
| 26 | And I was walking past and for some silly reason I felt like putting my fist through a couple of windows . |
| 27 | Well when we went there was Phyllis , Julie , and me and I was in the middle of because I 'd never been on ice skates before , I 'd been roller skating holding each side of them right , and they let me go and I just went and I was going down and I went bang right on the bloody side . |
| 28 | And I was wondering maybe if I 'd be better going back on them . |
| 29 | There is a famous story from the fifties about the discovery by nutritionists that you were better off eating the box than the cornflakes inside it , and I was wondering hopefully whether it might be better to eat my column than to read it , or alternatively whether it might be toxic . |
| 30 | But I stooped like lightning and got the nail up and into my skirt pocket — specially put on — and I was standing exactly as he left me when he jumped back . |