Example sentences of "in [noun] [conj] [pron] [vb past] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then it 's a good job I spent time with the Soviet Embassy in Stockholm before they sent me to Washington . |
| 2 | It 's only appeared in Harlow and she told me it would get in the Bishop 's Stortford one but it has n't so far . |
| 3 | The way people talk over here is pure poetry and nobody is really using that in songs so I thought I 'd have a go . ’ |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | So obviously I kept drinking the water and the next day , on the Sunday , the pain was so bad we called the doctor again and he found out I was in labour and he sent me to the hospital and they found out not until the Thursday that it was actually the cryptosporidium that had caused it . |
| 6 | ‘ We returned from our holiday in Hungary and I felt I must write to you . |
| 7 | I asked her her name just in case it was the Devil in disguise and she told me who she was . |
| 8 | ‘ You must come back for our Christmas party , ’ they said in unison as they waved me off . |
| 9 | I tried to impress upon the child that if he had landed in England before he met me , he would not have spoken English and people there might have regarded him as ridiculous . |
| 10 | She warned me against noticing only the differences between life in the Indian sub-continent and in England and she warned me about being seduced by the apparent ‘ exoticness ’ of it all . |
| 11 | I met her in Cambridge and she introduced me to her new boyfriend who was a Dutchman called Erik Hazelhoff-Roelfzema , I was most impressed with this keen and very handsome young man , but I knew nothing whatsoever about him save that he was anxious to get into the Pathhnders . |
| 12 | As I think he might not let me have my half-hour in midmorning if he let me go out earlier , I do n't insist . ) |
| 13 | It looks therapeutic in movies but it made me feel worse than ever . |
| 14 | I was reading an article ( Echoes , March 3 ) by David Isaacs about an old soldier 's experience in Singapore and it reminded me of a conversation with a friend in Carlisle . |
| 15 | ‘ She only bought it in October and she had me wash it every Saturday since , ’ says Tim fingering the glossy body of the car he now drives . |
| 16 | ‘ I saw Miss Lofthouse in Thirkett and she told me . |
| 17 | The regular vet — a friend of mine — has gone to live in Australia and he recommended me to the zoo as his replacement . |
| 18 | I would n't live in France if you paid me . |
| 19 | I offered Benn the chance to fight me in September and he turned me down in favour of fighting Mauro Galvano in Italy . |
| 20 | For the chemo I was in bed and they attached me to the drip . |
| 21 | I said no I was home sick and I in bed like you said I could n't who 's gon na turn round and say well there are Geoff there 's a hundred quid mate |
| 22 | I was in love with her , as much in love as I thought I was capable of being . |
| 23 | he drew me in ink and he etched me on zinc |
| 24 | I 've just put my house on the market in York I 've chosen the if erm that 's that 's you know the whole taking the whole scene into consideration , but if I was in Bournemouth for instance and buying a house in York and I said I phone three or four estates agents and said , Look please send me information through the post . |
| 25 | I 'd been to see my great-aunt 's solicitors in Glasgow and they gave me the keys . |
| 26 | From its throat , where a carelessly tied scarf failed to conceal deep scars , to its feet , encased in boots that I imagined I recognized , the monster was a monument to grime . |
| 27 | " I was in misery and he helped me . " |
| 28 | I 'd been shopping in Smiths and I thought I recognised him . |
| 29 | Speaking of young men , erm I have a letter here from Mr John who is our local M P , who is not able to be with us today , but erm he in fact would not of , I think , been born at that stage , but erm he did write to me a little letter I 've got this morning from the House of Commons in London and he asked me to read it out . |
| 30 | In fact when you introduced me , I thought , ‘ Oh my God , I 'm going to be brought up in front of the assembly for some heinous crime and be humiliated . ’ |