Example sentences of "i [verb] [indef pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was a student in London but I was at home on this occasion when I met someone in the park . |
| 2 | ‘ I expect someone in the village will tell — ’ |
| 3 | If that 's the case , I suggest anyone in the past who flunked an O-level exam writes to these people to demand that their E and F failures be upgraded to passes , with honours . |
| 4 | ‘ — I want everyone in the centre of the chamber — ’ |
| 5 | I want someone in the square tomorrow , Alan ! ’ |
| 6 | I collated everything in the evening , I improvised , it would be a pleasure . |
| 7 | Or have I missed something in the rules ? |
| 8 | " Did n't I see something in the paper about one of them sinking ? |
| 9 | I hear everything in the valley . |
| 10 | I know someone in the Council who might perhaps-it is only a perhaps … |
| 11 | I know someone in the States has married an eighty year old and she was only eighteen ! |
| 12 | I get one in the morning and then at night . |
| 13 | Erm I 'm always overjoyed when people say things like that to me , that you 've just said , er but I think I understand acting more than I understand anything in the world . |
| 14 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ — Coursebooks for the '90s , EFL Gazette |
| 16 | I find nothing in the Act to indicate that Parliament thought or intended to lay down that indulgence in these practices is not corrupting . |
| 17 | Hobbs v. Clark was considered and followed in two further driver 's option cases , Director of Public Prosecutions v. Magill [ 1988 ] R.T.R. 337 and Regan v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1990 ] R.T.R. 102 , but I find nothing in the judgments in these cases which provides independent support for what I have called the doctrine of driver 's preference . |
| 18 | from my vantage point I saw nothing in the few seconds between the County Inspector 's announcement to have incited what appeared to be a concerted start by the police . |
| 19 | I often walked along the shore , and one day I saw something in the sand . |
| 20 | I saw one in the box once when she was trying her pearls on to see if they went with one of the dresses . |
| 21 | Ivan H. May of Hampstead Garden Suburb writes : ‘ As a 70-year-old full-time carer looking after a wife suffering from dementia , I do everything in the house : shopping , cooking , washing-up , cleaning , washing , ironing , bed-making , mending and paying the bills , not to mention doing the garden and most of the decorating . |
| 22 | If , she said to herself , writing Marjorie Richardson and Lady Mayhew and Miss Dunstable down for Easter lilies , if I do everything in the parish that I should do , and I keep the garden going and the meals and the house ( sort of ) and the translation , then where can be the harm in doing this other undeniably humble little thing that so curiously makes me feel strong and alive ? |
| 23 | I was very frightened as I remembered something in the Book of Remembering : ‘ In those days there were trees … ‘ |
| 24 | Because I had one in the garden here and we moved it actually when we , we took the er hedge out er to put the fence and the gate on er and we moved it somewhere else and it er it just died off . |
| 25 | Er I thought I had one in the house yesterday I went , as Sheila was going erm Jackie was in her garden |
| 26 | Whilst I had nothing in the way of academy to display , I had won an open competition at the YMCA Baghdad Tennis Tournament , and was scrum-half for a 15 that was scratched up to play odd sides like the Palestine Police , or a crew from a Red Sea sloop on a visit . |
| 27 | Then I 'd er erm a friend come in in the afternoon and er ca n't remember if I had anybody in the evening or not . |
| 28 | I have one in the bathroom for dirty washing , which doubles as a seat ; I have one in my bedroom for ironing and one in the other bedroom that holds all my sewing materials . |
| 29 | Well I have one in the morning |
| 30 | I have none in the whole world to call my own . |