Example sentences of "and i [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kids bring out the natural father in me and I get a crinkly mouth every time I look at an ankle snapper . |
| 2 | So then they have to fill out all the forms all over again and I get a stern warning against giving false information to police officers ! |
| 3 | Lucker and I get a few beach items together and set off across the dunes towards the shimmering shore . |
| 4 | The guy beside me in the doorway calls in and mentions I 'm there , and I get an immediate order to fade . |
| 5 | Er , and I slided a wee bit . |
| 6 | The offer of a glass of Calvados was politely refused and I accepted a large glass of red wine that really tasted good . |
| 7 | And I remember a great orange moon floating on warm , richly scented evenings . |
| 8 | The shows on that 1987 reunion tour are among the best we 've done and I remember a cracking night in the Olympia which would have been the last time we visited Dublin . |
| 9 | I 'd crumpled on to the door mat and I remember a fearful pain , but whether it was my head or my ankle , I do n't really know . |
| 10 | The anger goes , no point in being mad , and I remember a tasty bit of gum I 've got stashed in the classroom , and I fancy it . |
| 11 | There have been lots of others , of course , and I remember a lovely beast called Daisy who would have been grand . |
| 12 | And I remember a whole boat-load of these young Irish lads and lasses coming aboard you know , weeping and wailing . |
| 13 | And I remember an earlier epoch when the geologists were told by the physicists , including the great Lord Kelvin himself , that they were foolish to postulate so many millions of years for earth history , when it could easily be calculated from classic physics that this was quite impossible . |
| 14 | ‘ It may be age , ’ he says , ‘ but I 'm rather drawn to adversity and I like a good wash-out ; but nothing happens here except a steady loss of money . |
| 15 | and I got a greater kinship because they 're a small group . |
| 16 | There was a spring in my step and when Craig Brewster played a nice through ball into the box , my old legs managed to carry me there and I got a second goal that I did n't expect . ’ |
| 17 | I was in a shop once , buying scented candles , and on the radio came Steve Wright with a collage of Smiths ’ songs , and I got a distinct chill , almost as though the hand of death was tapping me on the shoulder , saying : ‘ put yer candles down , it 's time to go ! ’ ’ |
| 18 | The father moved in and I got a full-time job in another engineering company . |
| 19 | ‘ But let me add , Liza and I got a great education . |
| 20 | When I first went in for forensic medicine he used me a lot and I got a great deal of experience I would n't otherwise have had because he was never too proud to ask for a specialist opinion . |
| 21 | And I got a great big box of chocolates of him . |
| 22 | The Emperor Napoleon got a good deal because France would have had to give it up sooner or later anyway , and I got a good deal because Louisiana gave me a lovely companion for life with all the legendary charms of your people . " |
| 23 | That disgusting hood you were wearing slipped , and I got a good look at the back of your head . |
| 24 | The total amount of marks possible was two hundred and five and I got a hundred and nineteen or something I do n't know and , and goes yes I had to average five of his marks because he was absent . |
| 25 | Yeah , when I started in nineteen thirty one and in those days you got a rise every six months and I got a one and three rise after they 'd been there six months and at the year I was earning seventeen and six . |
| 26 | We were n't enclosed long enough for it to become worrying and I got a real adrenaline rush when at one point one side of the passage was replaced by empty space leading to a huge open chamber . |
| 27 | I recently sang live at the Asian Pop Awards ceremony and I got a real buzz realising I was before my own people . |
| 28 | And I got a separate receipt for Andrew for his hundred and twenty so we 're up wi the receipts . |
| 29 | Saying , that we 're needing new , you can only get a good shoe , and I got a wee good shoe . |
| 30 | And I got a frail and thrashed that . |