Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the half-hour I had spent with Lord Byron , I had forgotten that it was again raining steadily . |
| 2 | In the gallery I observed a group of six and seven year old children allowed to ‘ look ’ at the pictures , gravitate towards this before all others in the room . |
| 3 | but I tell you what you know the mark two , have you ever displayed a coder and it rings , rings the bell when the intercom rings , rings the bell if the trunk 's designed to ring and all that , you know when you get the , you put a call on hold and it comes back and it goes brr , brr , brr , the bell starts going ding , ding , ding , a right noise and apparently that 's standard in the system I think that was a bit of an oversight to be honest with you |
| 4 | ‘ Possibly because the new ventilation system I 've recently supervised being installed in a factory in one of the Arab Emirates has proved so successful that I have orders for two more , or possibly because I 've just spent four weeks at full stretch in a very hot country with very little relaxation and deserve a holiday — but more probably because I own a majority stockholding in the company I bought cheap and built up to its present eminence , which gives me the position of chairman and managing director and full autonomy in deciding what I do , where I do it and with whom . ’ |
| 5 | I like to see a career structure in the company I work for |
| 6 | That is really my position and , unless I believed in it I would not feel justified in the course I have taken . |
| 7 | 1 While I was digging in the sand I found a strange gimble. 2 Carl and Jayne are both beamish , but Mike is the beamishest person I known . |
| 8 | Outside in the corridor I grabbed him by the elbow . |
| 9 | Leaning in , choked , I saw the banner above the pulpit in the chapel I had attended so regularly as a child . |
| 10 | And in the chapel I saw us standing |
| 11 | And we have got , I must tell you , I do n't know if you 've been , and win , we have got it in the hall I do n't know if you 've been in recently but ha we have got some new chairs ! |
| 12 | ‘ Tho ’ I was young Thomas Chatterton to those I met , I was a very Proteus to those who read my Works ' : Chatterton 's story is mostly told by himself , and with a felicity of cadence and of reference which can be caught in the sentence I have just quoted . |
| 13 | Somewhere in the middle I spotted Basil , the rough-coated Jack Russell , and squeezed through for an on-the-spot interview . |
| 14 | In the middle I want you to draw a picture of each item , and then , the land population , industry , and why food production , Sam you 're not listening . |
| 15 | And erm I think I was in the middle somewhere , I was n't er brilliant but I must have been somewhere in the middle I suppose . |
| 16 | ‘ About waist deep in the middle I reckon , ’ he told himself . |
| 17 | Oddly enough , later on in the Mess I heard him repeat part of the rollicking , but not my reply , to the station commander . |
| 18 | In the gloom I felt I was in some kind of an enclosure and told the rear gunner to get out and find out where we were . |
| 19 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 20 | She was confined to bed and had infrequent visits from a nurse ; since my father was still in the Army I looked after myself and skipped school to visit my mother who , by this time , was in a hospital for the terminally ill . |
| 21 | In fact during my time in the army I learnt to enjoy and respect it . |
| 22 | There was a little article in the Sun I told you about . |
| 23 | On peering through a hole in the wall I saw that Poulette was a strapping Ardennaise , performing her duties admirably , but that her poor master was having to press so hard to keep the plough in the soil that the entire weight of his body was being taken by his arms and he was advancing across the vineyards behind Poulette with his feet off the ground . |
| 24 | I sha n't put the next one in the test I do n't think so . |
| 25 | Oh in the pot I mean , now . |
| 26 | erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ? |
| 27 | ‘ This is one of the Australian birds ’ , noted Gould in his Handbook , ‘ which particularly attracted the notice of the earlier voyagers to that country , by nearly every one of whom it is mentioned as being very plentiful on all the islands in Bass 's Straits , and so tame that it might be easily knocked down with sticks or even captured by hand ; during my sojourn in the country I visited many of the localities above mentioned , and found that , so far from being still numerous , it is almost extirpated ; I killed a pair on Isabella Island , one of a small group near Flinder 's Island , on the 12th January 1839 . ’ |
| 28 | If they 're abroad I suggest you leave them out , if they 're still in the country I suggest you can leave them in . |
| 29 | When I 'm at home in the country I have breakfast at 9 am — cereal , brown toast and tea — and I 'm at my desk by 10 am . |
| 30 | ‘ We 'd seen so many terrible pictures on TV and when we arrived in the country I wondered if it was all true . |