Example sentences of "and i [verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had a première of Requiem , and one of the main critics had a real go at it — and at me — and I remember sitting up in bed with Andrew and just wanting to weep . |
| 2 | Pop and I remember going up to the captain 's cabin after you had gone to bed and eating lovely bala chaung sandwiches . |
| 3 | Sweets were produced and I remember going around with a bandaged head for a day or so . |
| 4 | It was my turn to go to the bank for the wages and I remember going back to the shop saying King George VI had died . |
| 5 | ‘ I like it there : I like the smells , and I like the food , and I like wandering about , and I like the people — even though in Japan I feel more like a foreigner than I do anywhere else in the world . |
| 6 | I believe we should not only be looking at simple traffic calming , I believe we should be looking at er greater use of subsidised school transport and in fact transport called for a report and I gather going on right out . |
| 7 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 8 | You stop firing at me , and I stop sniping back ? |
| 9 | I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no . |
| 10 | ‘ Poor darling , you 've had such a time and I keep rabbiting on and on about it . |
| 11 | and er , I said what you mean Charlie , cor all dog 's mess all over the place , I said it is n't , I , I said have you ever been and he said no I , I said well there you are , I said if you have n't been I said you do n't know what it 's like , I said you 're talking about some old girl that lives on , in Little Sandhurst , who 's got a thing about dogs and I said kicking up a lot of fuss about it , but I said the women 's a dam liar |
| 12 | And I went storming down to the office , did n't I ? |
| 13 | The weather ca n't be controlled and I hate sitting around waiting for it to clear up because I ca n't sit still for too long ! |
| 14 | The man and I began edging out of the kitchen . |
| 15 | And er , but I felt and I feel looking back on that particular er decade between nineteen sixty and nineteen seventy , that the work which the shop steward 's movement did er even in a preliminary way , prior to the Donovan Report coming out , was based on reason and fair play . |
| 16 | With coughing , he opened his eyes and began groaning which was at least some sign of progress , and I started looking about to see how we were going to get out of what appeared to be uncomfortably like a prison . |
| 17 | Doing about sixty , seventy , normal speed , in hurry to get somewhere and er I I just sat there and erm all of a sudden I I thought I was miles past this other car and I started going in , just to let him go past , obviously and he 's I I did n't realise this other car was keeping up with me and I 've gone towards it and I thought sh I 'd looked in my mirror shit it 's still there ! |
| 18 | So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’ |
| 19 | He 's a beautiful hunk of male virility , something you 'll never be , and I enjoy playing around with him , as you so delicately put it . ’ |
| 20 | Great care had to be taken negotiating a stretch of unstable rocks and I considered turning back . |
| 21 | Then my money ran out and I stopped going out at all . |
| 22 | And I hated turning out even more since my marriage . |
| 23 | The exact circumstances are forgotten , but I do remember serving as baby-sitter for the Menuhin infant while Papa Yehudi took his violin off to the concert , and I recall walking up and down with the child in my arms to keep it from crying . |