Example sentences of "in a [noun] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided , therefore , to ask her about this in a conversation I conducted after her interview : |
| 2 | So in a panic I went into a room , closed the door , and started screaming until I got hoarse . |
| 3 | In a panic I phoned tom to ask if he could come home early as I wanted to discuss Peter with him before the boy got home . |
| 4 | After a Turkish coffee and a nip of brandy in a kapheneion I started to walk back . |
| 5 | Bill : I was wondering recently what effect the AIDS hysteria has had outside the gay movement and I was talking about it a bit in a pub I use down in Sussex . |
| 6 | In a dream I went to the pictures , in Germany I think . |
| 7 | As in a dream I seized the bristly hairs . |
| 8 | In a dream I loosed my voice |
| 9 | But , even while her spirits were taking a nosedive that , supposing he was offering her a lift to Prague , there would n't be any point in accepting if it was unlikely she 'd be able to book in anywhere , he , to her absolute astonishment , was going on , ‘ There 's a spare room in a suite I 've reserved for this month — you can have that if you wish . ’ |
| 10 | In a while I saw Heathcliff walking through the gate . |
| 11 | In a while I consulted the compass , memorised another young tree and made my way there . |
| 12 | There may be more to this than meets the eye ( if you 'll excuse the pun ) as just once in a while I have taken zander during the daytime in water that has been so clear that I would have rated my chances as zero . |
| 13 | If you 've been pretty dominant in a company I do n't think you know when that time has actually arrived . |
| 14 | In a word I found them inadequate , not to say hopeless . |
| 15 | In a flash I realised that my propeller was tearing great chunks out of his cockpit and he was quite literally trapped . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't worry , Cawthorne deserves everything that 's coming to him , ’ said McInnes in a tone I bet he 'd never used on Sorrel . |
| 17 | ‘ Just one moment , Mr Angel is free now , ’ she said into the mouthpiece in a voice I had n't heard since Fenella 's parents had paid us a visit once . |
| 18 | At one point , early on , this kid was counting out money and saying something like , you have n't got a choice there and if you do n't like it you can shop around , when we said , in a voice I 'd never heard before , a voice that no longer pretended to be nice , a voice that expressed all the effort of pretending to be so nice for so long . |
| 19 | In a sense I like below average , I 'm concerned about getting the two damn words in , is n't that pathetic really ! |
| 20 | Yeah so so you 've got to be slightly careful but I mean if you already can use theodolites and things then in a sense I mean what do they mean by experience ? |
| 21 | You know it 's a sort of what 's got to be has got to be in a sense I mean there 's no going back now there 's no surely finally every every strike is settled in the end and they 've got to come and talk . |
| 22 | But in a sense I mean I can erm I mean I agree with everything you 've said , erm but er when Murdoch took over the Sun I mean the Sun was selling , at one point was selling about four million copies which is |
| 23 | So in a sense I had quite accidentally just done the market research . |
| 24 | In a sense I love ‘ Christianity ’ . |
| 25 | Quite for me it depends on i i in a sense I think it 's perhaps more subliminal . |
| 26 | but that surprised the man in the queue and yet interestingly I think that and she said I was right in my assumption that that is part of the partnership philosophy of John Lewis that they work in partnership with their staff and in partnership with the community and they make their profit which is generated to start through the community which they sell to and therefore they quietly give back without wanting to play their own trumpets and in a sense I think that 's how it should be . |
| 27 | I mean i i i in a sense I think he was , he 's been criticized unfairly for , for this because he he , he copped all the blame for absolute egalitarianism , whereas in fact if , if you look at the details behind it he was aware of the dangers of encroachment on the middle peasant and was warning against that and saying look this should n't happen . |
| 28 | It also provides an opportunity , and I think this is quite important , for people to get to know what is happening within the fields of expertise , which increasingly in our society become more and more specialised , more and more hedged off from one another , and in a sense I think that there is a very great danger if intelligent adults in the community , laymen in effect , do n't have some idea , some coherent idea , of what 's going on in these fields of specialisation and expertise . |
| 29 | Can I ask you before inviting you to speak to us in two or three minutes on this , say that the recommendation , in a sense I think it has been overtaken , in that there is now under fifteen a the very distinct possibility of a transfer of a very technical post from the pollution section by the end of the year . |
| 30 | In a sense I re-entered reality as I walked . |