Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] i [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you ask me any body 's names around here I could n't even tell you Sylvia 's name next door . |
| 2 | I said ‘ Come on ’ , I said , ‘ Let's go in the sitting room and sit down , and you tell me all about it ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ The business I 've just bought is on the rocks , and you tell me that 's lucky ? ’ |
| 4 | And you bring me some food . |
| 5 | I give you a number and you give me some other numbers that are tied up with it in some way . |
| 6 | And she told me that , while working at another bank , she had once been summoned to an office four flights away . |
| 7 | And she told me some character called Steve produced a gun when Newman , the foreign correspondent , interrupted their tete-a-tete . |
| 8 | Mrs Chamberlin has more than a dozen and she gave me such beautiful eggs to bring home . |
| 9 | And she rang me this morning for , well er it was so comical cos Gemma had said to me yesterday you know what about the holiday and I said sure that does n't have to be paid till the end of the month and erm you sure before we go into this ? |
| 10 | So I had to go to the , like the job centre and they offered me this , which I did n't really fancy at the time . |
| 11 | ‘ — and I was placed between Harry Burrows and Piers Langley and they told me all about hunting round here and really it was so interesting that I hardly noticed what we ate , some sort of fish and pheasant I think and , oh yes , there was an ice but by that stage , you know , I did n't have the smallest corner to put in so much as a mouthful — ’ |
| 12 | I mean in terms of population I think I somebody did er Strathclyde regional council used to be a client of mine when I was with Three M er well you know a client of my rep up here but er and they told me some time that I think a huge percentage of the whole of Scotland 's population |
| 13 | we 're still involved , and they tell me that life on a fire station is still very pleasant so I 'm sure it must be . |
| 14 | eighty pound if it 's not one thing you know it 's fortnight ago from Co-Op it 's forty one P a packet , went last week it was forty six P a packet , so Richard and Angela went the other day for nan and they got me some at same time , she leant me the money , yeah , cos I was absolutely broke , gone back down again to forty one |
| 15 | And they give me all the equipment I need . |
| 16 | And Ford 's put up a lot of the money and so they wanted their cut from the publicity , and they gave me another award , and their manager in Brighton came to present it . |
| 17 | And they says , Well a person who lived in your flat before you had a telly , you know and they gave me some excuse , you know that the the the person who lived in here before me had ripped them off and they says , How do we know that you 're not that person , you know things like that . |
| 18 | I read them , furtively , like boys do pornography , and they showed me another world . |
| 19 | The thing is my father was a journalist , and he taught me all the fucking tricks . |
| 20 | Well and he wrote me this letter saying erm saying I , I realise that there 's been something on your mind recently and I hope you can talk to me about it . |
| 21 | and he told me many funerals used to pass |
| 22 | He refused to eat , the stupid man , and he sent me some angry letters . |
| 23 | And he brought me these forty baskets of tomatoes this Friday night . |
| 24 | Well for a number of reasons , that 's one of them that 's one spinner and one yarn , and he offers me all of those colours , ex stock , in sort of ten days delivery and er one carton at a time , if I wanted . |
| 25 | ‘ I spoke to him on Sunday night and he wished me all the best , while I thanked him . |
| 26 | And he sells me this fucking massive two two air rifle which you 've seen have n't you ? |
| 27 | I , he asked me the one , you know , we were on about this morning , the only one we looked at , fifty miles an hour and he asked me that one and I knew it . |
| 28 | He come in laughing one day , look at this Paul , look at this and he shows me this big long letter that this teacher had wrote on . |
| 29 | He retired after the last C E T and he gave me all his pens and stuff . |
| 30 | and he gave me that information repeatedly and he 's terribly involved . |