Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mine varied from too large to too small but I was encouraged by the laughter of the women around me and their urging me on with ‘ good , good ’ or ‘ work , work ’ . |
| 32 | I was also interested in the possible help for tension , worry and lowering my blood pressure which had lately begun to rise and which concerned me greatly . |
| 33 | I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it . |
| 34 | I had been remembering another rose garden lit by shafts of lightning and somebody telling me not to be afraid and to go to sleep . |
| 35 | Everyone says how well I 've done and nobody teases me now . |
| 36 | For one thing I learned to cope with it better and then , well , I started growing and nobody singled me out for ridicule any more . |
| 37 | That is over a million pounds right in that budget for committee administration and you ask me where we can save fifty thousand pounds , well start producing a few less reports . |
| 38 | And you know me very well Tom . |
| 39 | It 's a very considerable stride forward altogether and you know I highly commend it . |
| 40 | And you know I never give up on something I want . ’ |
| 41 | When we went to John Lewis 's in , in High Wycombe , they got some cheap fabrics on in lace or , or fine material , and you know I very much now regret not getting some , because I want to dress up , remember I had a , a lace cover , a fitted lace cover on my kitchen table |
| 42 | ‘ Yeah , ’ replied the motor man irritably , ‘ you can say ‘ I came amongst you and you took me in ’ . ’ |
| 43 | He said well I give you that Avenger estate he said cos I thought you were building your house , that 'll be handy for you you know yeah you did and you let me down badly ! |
| 44 | ‘ I told you that , ’ said Sam , indignantly , ‘ and you told me not to be so stupid . ’ |
| 45 | You are a good model and you suited me very well . |
| 46 | ‘ You 're in complete charge and you resent me anyway . ’ |
| 47 | Then you come along , and you tell me not only who made it but what his name was , how many eggs he laid and the colour of his tentacles . |
| 48 | I ask and you tell me where you think the record is wrong . |
| 49 | I know what , I 'll swop that for a pound coin , yeah , and you give me back the pound coin and plus that fifty P , yeah ? |
| 50 | and er I picked him , I picked him up in the road and you see I just told him , I says oh I says , you 're the very man I 'm , I 'm looking for . |
| 51 | And you knock me down even further ! |
| 52 | One card read : ‘ I 'm your Mom and I love you and you love me very , very much . |
| 53 | I said so , and you fobbed me off with the excuse that you 'd been talking about Lilian 's twin . |
| 54 | It was my mother who taught me to cook and who taught me too about being a mother . |
| 55 | ‘ I saw her , in the midst of the warriors , and she saw me too , and knew me . |
| 56 | Mrs Webster had a Friend ( to whom she always gave a metaphorical capital letter in speech ) , and she told me how much her Friend liked reading . |
| 57 | And she told me how many shifts you work , the different groups in this home and what type of clients , how to treat them . ’ |
| 58 | I asked Maureen about this strange and spectacular bird , and she told me how it came to be in her care . |
| 59 | And she told me then , after that , why she 'd laughed . |
| 60 | We met that evening and she asked me straight out if I 'd be interested in an exclusive story : a scandal affecting a government minister . |