Example sentences of "and [verb] [adj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just wanted to teach you a lesson — and make sure I had your name and address . |
| 2 | ‘ Now all I 've got to do is get it in shape and make sure I pass the qualifying trials this weekend . ’ |
| 3 | Please check and make sure I 've done things |
| 4 | The safest course of action seemed to be to shore up the bunker and make sure I did nothing to upset the fragile eco-system that was supporting me , for however much we wanted to disguise it , I had nothing to fall back on . |
| 5 | ‘ I just want to get it right and make sure I do the best for each of the students in my charge . ’ |
| 6 | and make sure I do it right . |
| 7 | Chris arrived , notepad in hand , hair flying , and made sure I knew that we were both going out on stage at the end of the Benefit . |
| 8 | He stood there with the filthy little bits of orange sauce on his so-clean clothes and looking sheepish I do n't want any lunch , I snapped at him . |
| 9 | and that , I said I could n't sit down and do that I said , I |
| 10 | Okay Chair , that 's just a note that it er , it 's a matter we 've raised with this Committee on several occasions in the past , and getting close I think to being able to present some detailed figures as to the likely costs in future , of firemen 's pension sch scheme to Shropshire County Council . |
| 11 | Oh he 's He 's alright a couple of days and getting old I think . |
| 12 | Meanwhile I had to get Harry well propped so that he would n't fall forward and drown after all , and to do that I reckoned we needed to be in the corner . |
| 13 | And to do that I do have to say something about what truth is , in order to explain why we should want it told . |
| 14 | But to understand fully why and how they are allowed to do this , the above questions must be tackled and to do this I need to document the black kids ' experiences at two levels : the family and the school . |
| 15 | My conviction is to stay here , to love this country ( which I have found — in spite of its beauty and its sunshine — hard to love ) , and to give all I have to help these people find their miracle — for the sake of the rest of Africa . |
| 16 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 17 | Do n't look at the whole answer and then cover it up again and think right okay that 's a start and then try and do all I mean you 're not going to have the book to help you in the exam . |
| 18 | And making sure I get the right one . |
| 19 | I see now that it was just his way of keeping me on my mettle and making sure I did n't get big-headed . |
| 20 | I could send you a list of vacancies , and mark any I thought might suit Mrs Ross and which I could vouch for . |
| 21 | And if anybody comes up behind me and does that I scream and elbow . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm so flattered you want to discover more about me , but there 's disappointingly little to discover , ’ she managed , with an artificially sweet smile , ‘ And rest assured I do n't feel in the least threatened . |