Example sentences of "[noun] in [noun sg] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly the leg shape is tricky to achieve , and to have shaped a pair of legs in mahogany before I touched the ebony was good practice . |
| 2 | My hand groped for the light in terror as I wondered what this object could be . |
| 3 | Fortunately I had heavy duty minders in the form of my sister , Karen , mum and aunt , who were able to keep the kids in line while I translated the menu and discovered it came down to largely burgers , chicken , steaks and ‘ flipper friendly ’ fish . |
| 4 | I closed my eyes in reverence as I chewed then as I reached for the pint pot again I looked up at the small figure on the bin . |
| 5 | I even read the same book , Being Happy , that Faldo reads to get my mind in tune but I realise it 's your ability to put those thoughts into practice that counts . |
| 6 | You tape it me and give me the tape and I 'll give you a tape in exchange because I wan na keep it . |
| 7 | Although I say that this story could really happen , I doubt that there would be the character of Simon in reality as I think that a boy his age would realise the dangerous situation he was in , and join the other boys . |
| 8 | Cos it 's it 's puts it do , I know you were saying about it 's difficult to answer yes or no to a question but i in this case it 's really true because I answered no but I 've I 've got erm I mean I 've I 've got a degree in politics and I studied er , I did a a course women in politics |
| 9 | It was only a few square feet in size and I made it into a carpet of flowers . |
| 10 | Have nasty moment in bathroom before I realise that recycled bog paper is full of eccentric imperfections . |
| 11 | To each his fun in his own way , of course , but I much prefer to use my ferrets to the full , clearing each burrow in turn as I come to it . |
| 12 | After a TOPS course I got a full-time job in computing and I moved to a different part of London . |
| 13 | and it 'll flow out , okay , now we know that 's the difference in colour and I 've already told you that the arteries have got muscles in their walls , what 's the difference in between the wall of the muscle , muscular wall , let's put my teeth back in , the muscular wall of the artery and the wall of the vein ? |
| 14 | It lasted three days in court and I had to do night duties and then , finishing between 12 and 2 a.m. , going on nights again , going off early , going to court . |
| 15 | I listened but if it 's of no evidential value there is no point in listening because I 've got so much on my mind at that time erm to sort out that threat in there that I certainly ca n't recall what was exactly said or even along the lines of what was said . |
| 16 | Ronnie 's news , I found , had given me a good deal more confidence in Fringe than I had had on Drifter , illogical though it might be . |
| 17 | I had to go — I had a meeting in town and I did n't want to miss the train . |
| 18 | If I went out at the age of 68 at Drury Lane to celebrate Rory Bremner 's 50 years in showbusiness and I had n't got my pyjamas on , somebody would shout ‘ Where 's your pyjamas ’ ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Even Husak has spent many more years in jail than I have , ’ he said . |
| 20 | For I swagger and I swallow and the earth is my hotel And I chew my meat in heaven and I lash my tail in hell ! |
| 21 | I bow my head in shame when I think of the countries we 've looted and the people we 've subjugated . |
| 22 | But , by and large , and Wanda was an exception , all the things in life that I 've most enjoyed have been the things that I 've been paid really very little for , and most of the things that I 've been paid most for have been the least interesting . |
| 23 | Soon after this the same Shanny became a dark greeny brown in colour and I noticed rows of eggs on the underside of a rock in his cave . |
| 24 | We 're very obsessed with things called viewing figures in television and I worked out quite simply that if everybody among the eleven million people who are supposed to view Keeping Up Appearances every Sunday , popped a penny into a money box for Save The Children Fund one Sunday night , that would raise a hundred and ten thousand pounds within an hour , now why do n't we get going and encourage people to do that . |
| 25 | I saw the video in court and I have played it again er since this case was adjourned in November . |
| 26 | actually we , mm , at some length and had a few ideas , erm I 've got an appointment with someone at the Arts Council in a couple of weeks that the Arts Council 's got a new fund called erm consultants in research and I thought I 'd make a bid to see if we can get someone |
| 27 | I 'm now a professor of mathematics , but I have not had any formal instruction in mathematics since I left St. Albans school at the age of seventeen . |
| 28 | Moreover , I always think that working with you will lessen my spell in Purgatory when I die . ’ |
| 29 | I found coming into Suffolk from Hertfordshire I had n't heard the , any East Anglian dialect before at all erm I did n't find it difficult , there were only two cases and I can remember thinking there were two people er , one of whom is still alive , er who I had great difficulty in understanding and I thought when I can follow both of them without any difficulty I shall know I really belong . |
| 30 | I was going to send some pictures to Marcus in prison but I do n't suppose they would let him have them . |