Example sentences of "and i [verb] [be] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met her one day when she was coming out of the hairdresser 's and I 'd been in to make an appointment for Caroline . |
| 2 | K. M. I was on the Dingle Lane gate — Shell Mex place — and I 'd been down there a few months . |
| 3 | no , I forgot well see I forgotten and I 'd been down to Boots an all I , aunty Mary had them once , one time and said |
| 4 | birthday and I 'd been out , had a few drinks and that . |
| 5 | And I 've been up till , I 've been paining me all night Doctor , |
| 6 | ‘ I suppose the humans or whatever knew they would be coming back , and I 've been up and looked at the controls and , you know , it 's probably easier than the truck was , only of course there 's these extra levers for the hydraulics , but that should n't be a problem if there 's enough fuel , which … ’ |
| 7 | and I 've been up the one before that |
| 8 | Being a local councillor suspended and I 've been up and down like a yo-yo , as regarding the principles of this government . |
| 9 | I 'm taking numbers off of caravans where they 're letting and I 've been round and spoken to people who are in them caravans , and not one is happy ! |
| 10 | And I 've been down here two year . |
| 11 | and I 've been out of there for three hours and loved every minute of it . |
| 12 | And I joined the the engineer 's union , one Saturday night in Newark , had to go back there and they had meetings in the townhall , a room that was hired and er was er particulars taken and I 've been in ever since . |
| 13 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
| 14 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 15 | took the kids up a couple of times and then Mick and I have been up there with the |
| 16 | Erm on the audit side both Karen and I have been round to all the branches in order to deal with our old equipment . |
| 17 | Lyn and I have been over and over it to see if there was anything we could have done but that kind of abuse gives very few signs . |