Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb base] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But he checked every bit of my work of course and so most of the time do it by himself and let and me do other things . |
2 | ‘ And I get paranoid , ’ she says , ‘ about giving even a flash . ’ |
3 | Did n't he and I get drunk many a night together — ‘ |
4 | And I get bored with nothing to do on holiday but lie in the sun . ’ |
5 | ‘ I ca n't sit still for long any more and I get bored quickly , ’ he says . |
6 | We are waiting at both ends like a pair of bookends and I get impatient and ask , ‘ Who is this ? ’ |
7 | And I get annoyed ! |
8 | ‘ I have n't had any breakfast yet and I get dizzy if I start moving my feet fast before I 've eaten . ’ |
9 | ‘ I wish you did n't have to do that awful job , it takes up too much of your time , and I get jealous . ’ |
10 | I only have to go a few quid over and I get snooty letters threatening to take it off me . |
11 | Just minding me own business and I get fucking things thrown at me , timesheet ripped timecard cut . |
12 | And I go sorry , and he goes makes a jolly good Christmas gift and I go I ca n't do it |
13 | And I go back door here . |
14 | I , like the honourable member , happen to believe the point he 's made is right , that this should be a high priority , the money is there for local government to do it , I 've explicitly recognised the needs of the disabled in my settlement for next year by increasing it substantially and I hope local government will respond and do the decent thing . |
15 | But if religious beliefs have provided presupposition , sanction , even motivation for science ; if they have regulated discussions of method and played a selective role in the evaluation of rival theories , the possibility of a more wide-ranging , and I hope rewarding , inquiry opens up . |
16 | I look at him — when I can bear to and frankly if you can persuade him to use a clean T-shirt you 'll be doing all of us a favour — I look at him and I remember dear little chubby hands clutching one , and the way their faces used to smell of soap and milk . |
17 | I can remember , we used to have like mints in a bowl , lovely mints did n't we and erm potat , and we used to have the mints just in the bowl and I remember boiled potatoes , you remember erm , you know like , when we , when we were coming like and I can see everything now and I can see me little bowl and everything |
18 | And I like Gobi ki Sabji and chips and fish , that 's all . |
19 | The weather , and I like entertaining , I could n't do any when I lived with my Mum-in-law … . |
20 | ‘ John and I like different sorts of holidays , ’ he said . |
21 | We still need to know what is in that contract or we need to find out whether there is anything peculiar , and I mean illegal , about Harley 's putter . |
22 | And I mean hot — in the skimpiest , cheekiest black leather or dazzling gold . |
23 | And I mean complete . |
24 | She felt that it was n't children 's job or children 's responsibility to look after the world , it was our job , and that it was not fair to make children feel responsible for doing that erm I mean that seems to me to be a legitimate viewpoint and erm but it 's one of many and I mean other people may feel that in order to save the planet , or indeed prevent wars in the future , it is important to expose children to the dangers of , you know , the current situation . |
25 | Byrne looks embarrassed to be in it — and it is indeed a sore waste of his undoubted talents — while Basinger as usual goes for the lowest common , and I mean common , denominator . |
26 | We 've been a bit lucky because , although our ball is in high rough — and I mean high ; it was up to Greg 's knees — we 've caught a good lie , so he can hit a pitching-wedge back on to the fairway . |
27 | Anyway , she kidded in a large ( and I mean large ) pen with her mother , grandmother and sister with her and after kidding we moved her and her mother to a separate pen . |
28 | However , again like many another , Proust cherished , and I mean cherished , his own psychosomatic troubles . |
29 | Right , now for something completely different … and I mean different ! |
30 | This takes the slim ( and I mean slim ) pillar between Crocodile Crack and Alligator Crawl . |