Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [noun] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But there are so many different styles in Texas and I think that 's what I liked about growing up there ; you could just hear so much stuff . ’ |
| 5 | I 've just spent six months in Cottonvale and I mean its degrading , I mean cos your locked up in a cell from eight o'clock at night till six o'clock in the morning and your not got any toilet facilities you 've got to use a potty if you want to go to the toilet and it is degrading , I mean there 's people in there , well I was a first offender the first time I was in , but I mean there 's people in there seventeen year old that have n't a clue about life in general and it is degrading for them . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I was five months in Brazil and I thought then , if I want to get further into South America I need Spanish . |
| 7 | It was only a few square feet in size and I made it into a carpet of flowers . |
| 8 | I stayed with my mother 's parents in Eltham and I wrote to every theatre company and virtually every person in the world , but nobody would even look at me because I had n't done drama school . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Whether that would have been , at that time , for the benefit of the mass of the Chinese people we 're talking about erm I do n't think I , I rather think that the er turn that Mao took probably in the long run , in the long term , was to the benefit of the mass of people erm the peasantry , the workers in China because I think the alternative would have been erm international exploitation . |
| 11 | 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 ’ ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I was a policeman for twelve years in Jordan before I joined the Black June . |
| 13 | I 've been here nine years in August and I 've cut no end of it down . |
| 14 | ‘ Even Husak has spent many more years in jail than I have , ’ he said . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | she wanted to do some concerts in Europe and I booked the tour . |
| 19 | Well it , it , at least it 's gold , I mean , I , I , I was in the jewellery trade when I first left school , between school and national service I worked at a manufacturing jewellers in Birmingham and I 've never really gone along with the idea that nine carat is actually gold . |
| 20 | Too difficult ! ’ and oaths in Arabic that I did not understand . |
| 21 | I knew of the Knowlton Circles in Dorset but I had never seen them , although I had seen an air photograph . |
| 22 | I was so caught up in my plurals or situations in hardship that I did n't notice that the subject in more senses than one is a singular lack , and the verb should be is and not are , therefore I must ask the indulgence of the general assembly to change the verb . |
| 23 | You 've put me down for holidays in September and I 've been telling you about the cruise in October for months . |
| 24 | It was the first time that I had run a 60 metres in years and I improved my personal best to 6.63 seconds , which I was pleased with — but not so happy , obviously , to lose to Lincoln by one-hundredth of a second . |
| 25 | And of course er I knew something about America , my mother had been there and er we had some c I had eighteen first cousins in America when I went there . |
| 26 | I 've seen the laws in action and I have n't been too impressed . |
| 27 | I was going out with this guy called John Colley whose relations were sort of minor gangsters in London and I went to work for them because they did n't mind my not being English . |
| 28 | ‘ We spoke about the very good relationships between our Churches in Britain and I spoke about our foundation under John Wesley , with the links between personal piety and the search for righteousness in social justice We spoke about these things linking our two Churches together at quite a deep level . |
| 29 | My right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) went through the various clauses in detail and I do not want to add to anything that he has said . |
| 30 | Well er , basically , the I want to ask our General Secretary , i if this is the case er , non-trade union members can indeed elect represent representatives in councils and I say that there should be any election to these bodies should be by the usual manner by union representatives in the workplace I move . |