Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] in [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except that I had in some way to justify myself . |
| 2 | Well I mean one of the women I spoke to that I mentioned in that piece felt strongly that schools were laying too much on children in terms of taking responsibility for how the world is , and she erm mentioned in particular erm the kind of ecological issues that lots of schools and teachers are taking up now and erm children are becoming involved in projects for , you know , recycle this that and the other and there 's a book , is n't there , ‘ The Children 's Green Guide ’ or something . |
| 3 | I first saw her when I was called to see one of Mrs Ainsworth 's dogs , and I looked in some surprise at the furry black creature sitting before the fire . |
| 4 | During our rare separations we wrote letters in her manner , whenever we could find or construct conversations to report ; and I corresponded in this way with our friend , the excellent and long unjustly neglected novelist , Barbara Pym . |
| 5 | And I knew in some sort , I think , that the animal was my brother , in this meek and helpless form . |
| 6 | He was a strong young man , and I delighted in that strength : he once signed a letter to me ‘ Your wild boy of Aveyron ’ . |
| 7 | Until this point , of course , I had believed myself quite alone and I turned in some surprise . |
| 8 | Before I left Fontanellato my father had told me that although he was not against my trying to see Mussolini he would be very upset if I indulged in any kind of cheering or applause . |
| 9 | I think that it would be helpful now if I described in some detail what the effect of the banding arrangements will be , as there has been considerable misunderstanding of the provisions . |
| 10 | Yeah cos I went in that shop and I put on a size ten skirt and it was hanging . |
| 11 | Cos I went in this morning I 'd better on the piss last night . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've had something like it in mind ever since I sang in that charity concert last year . |
| 13 | Is the weather as bad as people keep telling me because it was Okay when I drove in this morning . |
| 14 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 15 | She looked at me and said that when I walked in this morning . |
| 16 | I did mine when I came in this morning . |
| 17 | There 's one in the window I 'm just gon na have a look , cos I never had noticed when I came in this morning |
| 18 | Cos they , when I went in that shop it 's , he 'd tell me he had n't , he 'd failed his driving test . |
| 19 | and when I went in that lavatory , there 's seven on there , when I went in that lavatory I , I |
| 20 | and when I went in that lavatory , there 's seven on there , when I went in that lavatory I , I |
| 21 | Erm , it took , it took a week and a half before the fresh foods secretary even spoke to me when I went in this place to do the free appointment , nobody 's told me how I 'm doing , so then what 's the point of doing these things if nobody 's going give you anything , it 's just a waste of time ? |
| 22 | Well I , when I went in this morning after you 'd seen it , and I thought oh ! |
| 23 | I suffered a dislocation as acute as when I arrived in this country . |
| 24 | I think it is best to suck it off with one of those tiny battery-powered vacuum cleaners you can get for about a tenner these days , as I did in this case . |
| 25 | Their reward could be to find ( as I found in another country ) that chemistry is the most popular subject in the curriculum . |