Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He did not ask : how much can I earn in a day if I do as much work as possible ? but how much must I work in order to earn the wage which I earned before and which takes care of my traditional needs ? … |
| 32 | At least back when I lived in a hole I knew everything there was to know about living in a hole , and now it 's a year later and I 'm at a place so far away I do n't even know how far away it is , watching something I do n't understand go to a place so far up there is no down . |
| 33 | I lived in a squat in Battersea . |
| 34 | I lived in a nursery which smelled of boredom and liniment . |
| 35 | From 1935-39 I lived in a flat on the top floor of number 45 in the ‘ high street ’ in Knightsbridge . |
| 36 | I lived in a house with twenty-five other soldiers . |
| 37 | For a term I lived in a room which looked out straight across to the tower . |
| 38 | I lived in a room off the kitchen , so thin-walled that it was impossible not to hear what was happening in the dining room unless Wu had a gadget going . |
| 39 | I lived in a town called Littlehampton . |
| 40 | I lived in an outcrop cube of thinnest glass , |
| 41 | But it reminded me , of this bloke I met in a port once . |
| 42 | It was this guy I met in a cafe . |
| 43 | As I kneel in a kind of mourning , someone calls . |
| 44 | I sit in a sleeping bag once they 've gone to bed . |
| 45 | Later still , my realisation was confirmed for me when I read the following statement from one of Bruch 's patients : ‘ I am completely isolated , I sit in a glass sphere . |
| 46 | Adapt this by inserting bride 's or groom 's name ; e.g. ‘ When Steven/Annabelle was a young reporter he/she heard a shout from someone drowning in a river … ’ |
| 47 | Well yeah I I got in a lavender bush when I was small so |
| 48 | " I got in a fight . " |
| 49 | ‘ The important thing is that I got in a couple of block tackles , which was significant . |
| 50 | Can anybody shed some light on an old air pump I got in a box of aquarium bits recently , at a car boot sale ? |
| 51 | and then I got in a muddle and I was so tired I was , because it 's my eyes you see |
| 52 | ‘ Oh Christ , oh Christ , ’ I mouthed in a panic and first set about getting the sticking plaster off him . |
| 53 | Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ I thought you might like some tea , and a slice of the fruit-cake I found in a tin . ’ |
| 55 | Security is a word I found in a dictionary . |
| 56 | I lives in a house . |
| 57 | I had never spoken to anyone who used a wheelchair before , and we soon found ourselves immersed in a conversation about our mutual ‘ problems ’ . |
| 58 | Jungle English was the title given by A. P. Herbert to writing so confused that one has to read each sentence several times , struggling with the words to find some sense like someone caught in a jungle . |
| 59 | I mimicked in a falsetto voice . |
| 60 | WHY SHOULD I INVEST IN A PEP NOW ? |