Example sentences of "and [verb] i i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karen came and asked me I says alright . |
| 2 | One day the screw came up and told me I had a visit down in the solicitor 's ; I went down and this man presented himself as a court welfare officer . |
| 3 | ‘ After Nicholl was sacked Ian Branfoot took over and told me I had no future under him . ’ |
| 4 | Has anyone rung up and told me I 've won a million pounds ? |
| 5 | His friend held my other hand and told me I 'd been brave . |
| 6 | If I go on denying it they 'll all wag their fingers and say ‘ Aha ’ and tell me I protest too much . |
| 7 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 8 | I 've never met anybody who supports royalty and believe me I have searched . |
| 9 | You wanted to wake up with him right there in the room and to turn to him and quote the next line of the film right back at him , to whisper it to him , make me almost believe that we are a pair of young lovers without any shame , and I do n't mean that in some tragedy queen way , but in order to say of Boy that truly I do think that it is a beauty like his that makes it all worth while , and I do feel that if we are fighting for anything , and if I was asked in a questionnaire what it was I was fighting for ( and believe me I do feel like I am fighting , more and more I think that ) , then I would answer , beauty . |
| 10 | Yvonne wakes me up after an hour 's sleep and tells me I have to leave . |
| 11 | One of the monks , describing the presence , said he could ‘ perceive the fragrance of such a wonderful odour , as if all the flowers on earth were gathered together in one place ; I feel also a glow of heat within me — not at all painful , but most pleasing — and a certain unusual and unexplainable joy poured into my heart , which all of a sudden so refreshes and gladdens me I forget grief and weariness of every kind ’ . |
| 12 | I 'll go and get me I want and organ . |