Example sentences of "and i [vb base] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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1 | He lights the match below the brown patch and I suck in and follow the smoke . |
2 | and I says , Good afternoon could I speak to the person that does advertising etcetera , and I get through to that particular person , and I said , How would you like to save money by us printing all your portfolios free of charge high quality er portfolios it would n't cost you a penny . |
3 | I 've managed to overcome the problems and I get around quite quickly — but I 've got chunks knocked out of the back of all my necks where the slide catches ! ’ |
4 | Individually they are fine and I get on very well with most of them , but put them together in a group and they seem to have an attitude problem . |
5 | Says Miss G : ‘ Mother and I get on very well . |
6 | The delicacy of the situation , with their parents and often their grandparents there and everything ( as in a thwarted erotic dream ) , would hardly explain the lack of visual stimulation ; and I get on like a house on fire with the girls in the officers ' bordello . |
7 | Selina and I get on like a house on fire . |
8 | Mum and I get on a lot better these days . |
9 | And I get on less than two people |
10 | Tony and I get up as quickly as we can , brushing the snow free from clothes before putting them on so that it will not melt with the heat from our bodies . |
11 | A sequence in which they knock me down and I get up . |
12 | So they knock me down and I shake my head and I get up . |
13 | Well it 's he 's , he gets up at six in the morning and I get up at about five o'clock and I go to bed later than him anyway normally , so it must be |
14 | And I get up about half four , right ? |
15 | The driver calls ‘ Loving ’ and I get off the bus … ’ |
16 | He and I get along very well now . |
17 | I normally catch quarter-past-five bus and I get in about ten-past-six , but he wanted me to work late and I says , well how late ? |
18 | But almost immediately Kafka — me , dammit — begins thinking again , and I get out of bed . |
19 | What we are saying there are other emergencies and I get down to the word loneliness now is there any reason why senior citizens should n't have the facility whereby they can make telephone calls if those , they so desire , to members of the family who in many instances they have n't seen for long periods of time ? |
20 | Then I see a policeman and I go over to him . |
21 | ‘ Sergeant Jennings here will make some tea , then she 'll stay with you while Mr Morgan and I go over to the stables . |
22 | He breaks up with Michael and I go round cu , I I 'll give them the car and get the amplifier , and he goes what amplifier ? |
23 | I have written elsewhere ( Bolton , 1982 ) that the basic skill of acting is : ‘ an ability to engage with something outside oneself using an ‘ as if ’ mental set to activate , sustain or intensify that engagement' and I go on to say , ‘ I am using the word ‘ engagement ’ as a central feature because it implies a relationship at an affective level between a person and the world outside him' ( p. 135 ) . |
24 | ‘ And I go on working on my memorials to her , to gather the strength to write more … . |
25 | A sergeant appears from what a plate beside the door indicates is the dentist 's and I go up to him and tell him my name and that I 've been told to report my movements by Detective Inspector McDunn . |
26 | And I go up there . |
27 | but as soon as he start , get ready , go , and I go up to Lisa 's and . |
28 | So there is a drawback , in the sense that if you 're flitting around here there and everywhere , as I am , I ca n't readily do that if I know it 's engaged and it 's on call park , and I go off elsewhere , the call comes back to my handset , there 's nobody there , of course eventually , where would it go ? |
29 | She switches the light on in her room , and I go in and sit straight down on the chair . |
30 | Her girlfriend , Josephine , does not take to the water , so Kelly and I go in alone with Simone , treading in unison till the chill is mellowed , and swim to the deep end where we cling to the buoy and discuss other people . |