Example sentences of "and [verb] 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 | He came and put his arm round my shoulders then and led me gently towards the door . |
| 4 | Bullinger stayed with me , and asked me quietly whether I thought that there was any hope for her … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | That experience angered and frustrated me sufficiently to consider coming to this place to try to change the evil which the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) was letting loose on decent families in decent communities . |
| 7 | He wanted to take me where the cold would hurt me and make me more miserable . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | That 's been very pleasing and offers me very attractive playing options . |
| 10 | I thanked them for praying for me and seeing me now , hoped they thought their efforts worthwhile . |
| 11 | I was painting away merrily in Cirencester and realised I really needed a sound academic education . |
| 12 | I still have the very first letter I wrote from home : ‘ Please Mam , say you love me and bring me home ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Take it away and bring me about a quarter of it . ’ |
| 15 | That took an hour , and made me so tired that I was able to lie down and go to sleep . |
| 16 | Nigel invited them all in for food and drink and listened spellbound to feats of derring-do , asking endless questions and reminding me slightly of the painting The Boyhood of Raleigh . |
| 17 | ‘ He game me a bit of a shoulder into the body which flew me a bit and got me rather p— . |
| 18 | Now you d you went and interrupted me there and , and I 've forgotten what I was saying which was right . |
| 19 | And there was a lot of space between the hut and the door and the wind took me and flung me right up against the tank and I went down to the ground and crawled on me hands and knees . |
| 20 | They recognised you , and described me well enough for him to start making enquiries . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps you could give me one of these coins and send me away with a beating ? |
| 22 | But you pat me on the bottom and send me home , and hope I 'll ‘ keep in touch ’ ! |
| 23 | You want to psycho-analyse me and send me home with all my little idiosyncrasies ironed out ! ’ |
| 24 | His master closed his book and invited me politely to the table . |
| 25 | He reaches for me and holds me tight , and the tremble of him is tremendous . |
| 26 | As we have just seen , in a population of nice strategies they will all look and behave I exactly like one another : they will all COOPERATE all the time . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ But I have to be honest and say I never marked her as someone who was going to become a great journalist . |
| 29 | I took a firmer grip , squeezed tightly and immediately a cloven foot shot out like a whip lash and smacked me solidly on the knee . |
| 30 | I ca n't say touch for touch how we became lovers because , really , we had been ever since he came into the room and found me still there , waiting and pretending . |