Example sentences of "in [noun] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My arm was beginning to hurt pretty badly , so I decided to pull my chute straight away in case I fainted from loss of blood . |
| 2 | Tricia sat between Melanie and me , which made me change gear ever so carefully in case I brushed against her ample thigh , and Melanie shouted instructions around her . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , in case I seem to be just er avoiding the question , er I would have to say that this has been asked for before and we have resisted time and again , that 's the history of the matter , on the grounds that what these parents are really asking for is baptism and it 's our opportunity to er , to speak in these terms er and it 's a gold golden opportunity if they actually come to us . |
| 4 | Going back to the railway station was for the moment out of the question , just in case I bumped into someone who recognized me . |
| 5 | I did n't venture further in to find the owls in case I bumped into a Brother . |
| 6 | My mum and dad had been through a very bad divorce , so I suppose she was frightened of being too strict and pushing me away , in case I turned against her . |
| 7 | In Harehills I belonged to the upper crust of the lower middle classes who were getting out as fast as they could . |
| 8 | One of the things the group in Wolverhampton I think at the Theatre Royal there is , is doing both audio descriptions by sign language I think and one of the things they 've , they , they do is meet in the bar |
| 9 | In Cardiff I went to the local elementary school and in 1939 , in the competitive scholarship examination , won a special place at Cardiff High School . |
| 10 | In Guildford I saw for the second time the travelling exhibition ‘ Architecture in Context ’ , staged by the RIBA 's South East Region . |
| 11 | In addition I explained to her that , having found the original event and looked at it through adult eyes , there was no danger that she would put an end to one problem only to replace it with another , as might have happened if we had not investigated its origins . |
| 12 | In Experiment I reported by Mitchell and Green ( 1978 ) , subjects read extracts from Tolstoy 's War and Peace three words at a time . |
| 13 | No changes were envisaged in Chapter I dealing with service , and the long intermission in the activities of the Conference until its revival in 1951 prevented any action . |
| 14 | Now , another thing that erm one should bear in mind I suppose in talking about child sex abuse , is the way a great many of terms are contentious . |
| 15 | With this in mind I travelled to Woburn for the Superstars ' Celebrity Challenge . |
| 16 | In rehearsal I go through my links with great care . |
| 17 | A part of that obviously I think is going to be that there was an expected higher level of productivity than we 've actually achieved , cos you know in January I think in , in Christine 's area for example , to start off with I mean er er er productivity plummeted erm and it 's now , and she changed the system and , and one or two other things . |
| 18 | On the day in question I attended at Buckingham Palace and was received by Lord Plunket , and to my delight also found Lady Susan Hussey , who was the Lady-in-Waiting and the wife of my old friend Duke Hussey . |
| 19 | And so in conclusion I looking at it and the exhibitions we 've made to you and to the county in the course of the consultation draft is that this county does not need this policy and that it is in fact an insidious and repressive kind of policy that it contrary to national planning guidance and should not be included in the alterations . |
| 20 | As English tutor at Haworth College in Cambridge I deal with them every day . |
| 21 | One evening in November I waited for him to finish his day 's work . |
| 22 | We climbed aboard the transport and as we moved away in convoy I gazed at Francoise from the back of the truck . |
| 23 | I think these proposals not only are a way forward but also in light of what is actually happening in the area of Highfields with er the high numbers of unemployment , with the high rate of people underachieving in education I think for the last two and a half years there has been no clear guidelines or structure that has systematically brought about any results in the two centres to move forward where people have lost out by this issue being bureaucratic and a political football that 's being kicked about and I think it 's about time where we now have cross party consensus that we move positively forward and work towards these proposals . |
| 24 | As in Belcourt I think to myself : I am seeing what he saw , the same light , the sky , but it fails to work as it should ; it changes nothing , neither enhances nor diminishes my experience of the place . |
| 25 | One morning in mid-January I jumped over the railings and climbed up to the parapet of the gate . |
| 26 | It shows a little bit , not in Jack , I do n't mean in Jack I mean in Andrew . |
| 27 | It will be noticed that the dates of buildings covered in Volume I overlap with those in Volume 2 . |
| 28 | ‘ When I was in Egypt I thought at first that the sun and the desert , the empty sky and the empty sand — that there was nowhere more grand . |
| 29 | ( Funnily enough , years later in France I saw in the Orange branch of the Credit Agricole exactly the same slogan used to advertise personal loans . ) |
| 30 | In turn I answer to the Assistant Commissioner of Specialist Operations who has a seat on a specially convened COBRA sub-group . |