Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [v-ing] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So how 's about moving over and letting me get on with it , eh ? |
| 2 | I says on a night-time , I said , you know , she ca n't leave her home now , I said , she ca n't manage to put coal on fire , and she ca n't manage to get up up to eat and drink and that , I said , I do n't mind dropping off and taking me turn on the night-time but I mean , but it 's hard , it 's hard with me with kids every night . |
| 3 | What I 'm trying to do is chair a meeting and to prevent what happening what 's just happened when people start jumping up and shouting I do n't think that 's productive ways to chair any meeting or allow that to happen . |
| 4 | right , two things first of all I mean I think this is the first one and once Napier get it up and running I think it 's exportable |
| 5 | ring me up and asking I understand you Anyway to cut a long story short , he was basically saying well do you know of any computers ? |
| 6 | The most consistently bearish — well he is a Brit — Stephen Smith of PaineWebber , says that until recently , saying you did n't like IBM was ‘ like standing up and saying I do n't like apple pie . ’ |
| 7 | But he came back three days later crying his eyes out and begging me to forgive him , he looked like a helpless puppy . |
| 8 | It felt like my stomach had decided to take a sabbatical ; all that food was just sitting there , unprocessed , locked in , slopping around and making me feel horrible . |