Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave me this and asked me to deliver it to Dick Tavett . |
| 2 | She was quite calm and told me to get a watch and try and time how far apart the pains were . |
| 3 | The altitude is not very good for some of them : a box of old books that I found had congealed together with the damp and had I dared to try and pull one out from the row of upturned spines , to identify it , all the others would have risen too . |
| 4 | That cut our speed some and gave me thinking time , but the traffic seemed to consist entirely of black cabs and VW Golfs full of party-hoppers . |
| 5 | I enquired deeper into the Teachings and the more interested and enlightened I became . |
| 6 | I wish it was yesterday , I wish I was just climbing over the rocks in dear comfortable Mrs McPhee who does n't mind getting wet and lets me breathe — ’ |
| 7 | Now I feel so embarrassed and wish I did n't have breasts at all , or I try to hide them with baggy T-shirts . |
| 8 | At this sort of a reunion , one looks to another and says I do n't look sixty , do I ? |
| 9 | They are at any rate central and have I believe served for various committees of inquiry , etcetera , before . |
| 10 | Coo that was creaking and twisting I thought ah |
| 11 | ‘ That I 'm able to offer specially designed , hand-painted tiling lifts my kitchens out of the ordinary and helps me to market them . |
| 12 | He was terrific and made me realise the only reason I had these thoughts was because of the enormous love I have for you . |
| 13 | Why did I bother to tell her , only to have her shout at me , accuse me of being crazy to wake her up for that and tell me to keep my nose out of her brother 's business , especially since it was nothing to do with me . |
| 14 | I mean I 've backed out of going , having , I 'm supposed to be working on that on the stalls as well but I backed out of that and said I 've got a hair cut , erm , so I 'll have to be done last . |
| 15 | Er I , I was going in the evening you know , doing the tailoring class but of course my illnesses have stopped me doing all of that and made me realize I ca n't do it all . |
| 16 | They took the baby and I remember asking if it was okay and did I have a boy or a girl . |
| 17 | If that 's what you 're doing in practice , say so , do n't put all these exclusions in the document because that makes me suspicious and makes me think you 're trying to exclude these things . |
| 18 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 19 | Now sit still and let me see to your arm . ’ |
| 20 | My wife and I are staying at the Danieli , but she 's not been feeling well and urged me to take up the offer of an observer 's seat here . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Take me in by your fire for I am shivering with cold and I am lost in the forest … oh be merciful and let me share your fire and give me a cup of milk to sup and a mouthful of bread … ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I was 17 and thought I had a god given right to be in Spur 's first team . |
| 23 | He said he 'd just come back from Amsterdam and he had tried some and said it was great and did I know where he could get some . |
| 24 | His catches at Tring on flavoured maggot were extraordinary and led me to follow him . |
| 25 | If you had left well alone and let me carry on my business I would n't be here . |
| 26 | Even Daley Thompson , who insisted he had very little interference from teachers , said they helped him in a non-involved way : ‘ They were all right ; they left me alone and let me get on with what suited me . |
| 27 | My sister and I had a hazy idea that he sold rabbit skins from a sort of tray suspended from his neck — but as he was always beautifully neat and clean I do n't know where we got this idea from . |
| 28 | Now talk some more and let me hear whether you 've come back with an American accent . " |
| 29 | And we try to show that retirement can be a rewarding and fulfilling I find it so anyway so I can sell things in that er sense having an experience rather a young person talking to older people how er fulfilling it wis is in retirement . |
| 30 | I looked at him puzzled and said I did n't have a clue what he was talking about . |