Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [to-vb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ I was thinking only the other day , ’ he went on , ’ that if I did n't have a wife and child to support I would throw in my resignation , take the voluntary redundancy on offer , sell the flat and go . |
| 2 | Because I am 84 and live alone , she also pops in every morning and evening to ensure I am all right , and she gives me a bath once a week . |
| 3 | I am not exactly pushing a supermarket trolley but I make sure I have plenty of apples , bananas and water to keep me going . |
| 4 | Father had given up tobacco and alcohol to send me £2 15s ( Pounds 2.75 ) a week to make ends meet . |
| 5 | Whether it was the distance , whether the record , because it must have been a record , had been deliberately slowed — there seemed to be some tonal distortion as well — I could n't tell , but the song came with a dreamlike slowness and dimness , almost as if it was being sung out of the stars and had had to cross all that night and space to reach me . |
| 6 | I got my just desserts from Dad , which made my Mom cry more than me , but all in all I was given enough love and affection to cushion me against all the hardships that were to come . |
| 7 | If you knew what I was doing you 'd have moved heaven and earth to stop me . |
| 8 | There is something paradoxical about this aspiration to lift myself out of nature by the use of reason , since I can not without setting arbitrary limits to reason forbid the sciences of physiology , psychology and sociology to reincorporate me into nature , as a phenomenon in principle explainable and predictable like everything else . |
| 9 | If , through your aggression , you control what I do , it takes your time and energy to supervise me , thus creating a paradoxical self-imposed servitude . |