Example sentences of "and [vb base] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The zoo-man at the turnstile 'd come rushing out and Vern 'd get scared and drag me away to the place where he 'd hidden my … |
| 2 | Let them find me and bind me again if they |
| 3 | The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream . |
| 4 | He wanted to take me where the cold would hurt me and make me more miserable . |
| 5 | But the prison system — not particularly capital punishment — but the penal system as it is , and the whole apparatus of judgement , people deciding on other people 's fates … that does irritate , and upset me quite a lot . ’ |
| 6 | I still have the very first letter I wrote from home : ‘ Please Mam , say you love me and bring me home ’ . |
| 7 | Except that while she was loving him , gazing wonderingly at his blind eyes , Dr Neil said suddenly and hoarsely , ‘ Quick , McAllister ; put the baby in the drawer over there and bring me as much towelling as you can . ’ |
| 8 | Take it away and bring me about a quarter of it . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps you could give me one of these coins and send me away with a beating ? |
| 10 | But you pat me on the bottom and send me home , and hope I 'll ‘ keep in touch ’ ! |
| 11 | You want to psycho-analyse me and send me home with all my little idiosyncrasies ironed out ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Carry my respectful greetings and compliments to your kinsmen , Gwilym and Rhys ap Tudor and their brothers , and say I still owe them a shrewd knock for their taking of Conway on Good Friday of last year . |
| 13 | ‘ But I have to be honest and say I never marked her as someone who was going to become a great journalist . |
| 14 | and touch me again . |
| 15 | You lift your hand to me and touch me just once with it and I promise you you wo n't be able to walk for days , because I 'll smash every movable thing in this room over you . |
| 16 | Forget it all and kiss me now , aunt . ’ |
| 17 | On 20th February 1803 he recorded a visit to Wastwater , which he reached over Langdale Head , ‘ Went down to the foot of the water , got up the side of the skrees , where there was the most awful and tremendous storm of thunder and lightning and hail I ever remembered . |
| 18 | And I said , look why do n't you meet me in front of Conway Hall and kill me then , it would save so much time . |
| 19 | ‘ Stay as you are and show me just the same ! ’ |
| 20 | I 've got a file called income two , and let me just erase what 's here first of all . |
| 21 | And let me just before we take the music remind you of er the front page of the daily mirror today . |
| 22 | And let me just remind you of the principles of this technique . |
| 23 | That is the scheme er as as I see it and unless , unless I I thi , unless that is progressed quickly then as I say I am extremely pessimistic and let me just say Chairman the dangers of not going along that line the dangers of the present scheme which was at the last planning committee meeting or or or was it one of the social services committee anyway , where four were chosen or or it was said choose a small number . |
| 24 | Which I know is all a lot of money and let me just tell you here , what we have spent this year on advertising . |
| 25 | And let me just say one thing , before Celia talks about the admin course and that is |
| 26 | You see mammals can chew and reptiles ca n't , erm we can chump away , you know ? erm and let me just list some of the changes that took place which help us to chew . |
| 27 | Not the desire to destroy it , but rather to turn time back and let me never have been involved with it . |
| 28 | And let me now posit this : ‘ dignity ’ has to do crucially with a butler 's ability not to abandon the professional being he inhabits . |
| 29 | Sammy , at times rather naive , wanted to remain with us , and walk me home after I parted from Peggy with perhaps a ‘ good-night ’ kiss . |
| 30 | Yeah you go down and catch me please ? |