Example sentences of "of the [noun] i [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the stories I have in mind , Othello and Desdemona , Samson and Delilah , Dido and Aeneas , only the third is spoken of , and it is spoken of oracularly . |
| 2 | You must guess the colour of the flower I chose in Windsor Park . |
| 3 | Nervous exhaustion , no doubt ; perhaps , too , a guilty reminder ( in the way our bodies are juxtaposed ) of the gratitude I sampled in the camp . |
| 4 | I have n't told the management about the lymphoma , and have n't had a repeat of the weakness I experienced in Birmingham , so have put it down to adrenalin overdose and imagination . |
| 5 | One day , I fear that a demonstration of the kind I faced in 1982 will go wrong and someone will get hurt . |
| 6 | At the last meeting of the committee I did in fact congratulate the director and his staff for the way in which community care had been implemented current year and I 'd certainly like to congratulate him on the way he 's presented er proposals for next year . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Nikos , ‘ that 's one of the things I had in mind . ’ |
| 8 | Which really is the worst sort of hype , because although I think that some of the things I did in The Birthday Party were good and some of them were great , some of them were just , ‘ So what ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Well , ’ I replied nervously , ‘ This is some of the stuff I did in the early days , it 's all medical and rather boring . |
| 10 | I found a photograph of Paul as a baby in one of the albums I kept in the loft , and after the ceremony I wrote the name of the new catapult on the back of the picture , scrunched it up around a steelie and secured it with a little tape , then went down , out of the loft and the house , into the chill drizzle of a new day . |
| 11 | It 's typical of the states I get in here I suddenly told myself that the digging would have to be done over a number of days , the only stupid thing was to expect to do it all in one . |
| 12 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought you might like some tea , and a slice of the fruit-cake I found in a tin . ’ |
| 14 | I reckon most of the kids I knew in care ended up in trouble . |
| 15 | ‘ Had the current changes taken place 10 years ago , many of the kids I coached in townships could have reached the top . |
| 16 | Most of the time I worked in the bunkers , trying to keep the stoker supplied with enough coal to fire the furnaces ; he would rattle his shovel in the hatch if I fell behind . |
| 17 | ‘ Most of the time I live in the real Peru , ’ he told me , ‘ but the Cross Keys is designed to be Not Peru — a place where the gringo and the expat who live here all the time can escape from all the hassling , the beggars and all that crap — and relax . ’ |
| 18 | Men not in Botha 's mould , nor like some of the bangers I saw in some up-country games . |
| 19 | I am reminded of the lesson I took in a school in Sylhet which I described in my first article and the way the understanding of the task helped the children to understand the English I was using . |