Example sentences of "i [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rarely saw a lesson in which the students had not gone to some considerable length to vary their material and their activities to take account of the level of the class , the length of the lesson and the time of day or week . |
| 2 | that we had that like a little sitting room , I just had a settee in there and a couple of chairs , it was lovely and cosy in there |
| 3 | One thing you should remember : when he says , ‘ I just made a hole in one , ’ do n't say , ‘ I did n't see you . |
| 4 | I just spent a week in Iraq and they used one photo with no other stories playing . |
| 5 | I just wanted a religion in which gender was not of significance . |
| 6 | Erm chairman could I just ask a question in relation to that ? |
| 7 | I once heard a sermon in which the preacher defended atomic weapons on the ground that Satan would never use them because it would hasten his own destruction ! |
| 8 | ‘ I once had a week in a boarding-house called St Monica 's , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I once asked a colleague in linguistics if this meant that the criticism of , oh , Addison , Keats , Hopkins , Forster , was valueless . |
| 10 | And it was not Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery who once stated that : ‘ I once saw a bowler in Australia thunder to the wicket and bowl a flatout underarm to the batsman . |
| 11 | I once visited a pensioner in my village and mentioned that I occasionally like jam but never make it myself because I do not eat it often enough . |
| 12 | ‘ I once did a crossword in which all of the clues were susceptible of two quite different solutions . |
| 13 | I once read a case in the newspaper about a man who jumped in front of an Underground train . |
| 14 | There were sometimes dangerous people near Haworth , so I always had a gun in the house . |
| 15 | I always take a turn in the restaurant to see there are no complaints . |
| 16 | I always keep a bottle in my desk drawer , but this character was putting it away on an industrial scale . |
| 17 | I still had a stone in my hand , and the moment the bobby turned into the alley I threw this stone up the other end . |
| 18 | I knew I 'd win because after the semi-final , I still had a lot in my tank . ’ |
| 19 | I still have a foothold in Baldersdale , which is not widely known . |
| 20 | ‘ I hardly missed a game in eight years , and , to be honest , on one or two occasions it got boring . |
| 21 | I usually estimate a fall in body temperature in these circumstances of about one-and-a-half degrees Fahrenheit an hour . |
| 22 | I usually dig a hole in my back garden and bury it . |
| 23 | It was a small , stuffy room , and yet I distinctly felt a chill in the air , like a draught , and I knew that it must be coming from that other world my uncle had told me about , and that the threshold to it was somewhere very close at hand . |
| 24 | I also began a campaign in the press and elsewhere against the lily-livered Scottish Rugby Union . |
| 25 | I also have a flat in Belgravia in London , and , when I 'm spending my working week at Silver Star Navigation , I occasionally sleep there if I have a late dinner appointment . |
| 26 | I nearly had a fight in school ! |
| 27 | It was felt by some members , the secretary told me , that as I now had a residence in Edinburgh , I ought to become a fully paid-up member . |
| 28 | I even knew a chap in hospital once who was more concerned about his totally symptomless brain tumour than about the lobar pneumonia from which he was cheerfully recovering . |
| 29 | Mr Hallam said : ‘ I then felt a kick in the face . |
| 30 | At lunch time Derek and I almost caused a riot in the dining hall , because between us we could obviously only sit at two tables at once and every table wanted us to sit with them . |