Example sentences of "in [noun] i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a young person , I am often quite afraid to go out on the streets in case I am approached by one of these grey-haired vandals and informed how much worse the world is these days or interrogated as to why young people do n't have any respect anymore . |
| 2 | Various other lines of defence to this action were raised by Mr. Ashworth and I will now consider those in case I am wrong on what I regard as the central issue . |
| 3 | ‘ They are my bodyguards , Sir John , my assistants in case I am attacked . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I should go in case I 'm seen . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's a police whistle in case I 'm attacked while I 'm collecting the week 's takings . ’ |
| 6 | So far I 'd managed to avoid giving him the exact address , but now he asked for it with a determined note in his voice — " Just in case I 'm down that way " and I was forced to invent one , praying that he 'd never check up on it . |
| 7 | Look I do n't want to be so famous that I have to write autographs all over the place , and ca n't travel by bus in case I 'm mobbed . |
| 8 | One more person would n't make any difference to the arrangements , for Rob had thought it wise to cater for up to eight extra guests — ‘ Just in case I 'm more popular than I think I am , ’ he 'd laughed . |
| 9 | Fine , just in case I 'm running over a little bit . |
| 10 | And you have to be wary of upsetting me in case I 'm planning on the wholesale destruction of Sarah Chester Fabrics . |
| 11 | I was a little unsettled by the fury of the blizzard , and hugged the top of the ridge all the way along , but avoided taking in the top due west of Cairn Gorm in case I was blown off my feet . |
| 12 | I had lunch and then sat on the wheelbarrow swatting flies , neither willing to go further out of my way , nor to return , just in case I was on the right track . |
| 13 | I was always on my guard , always playing the ‘ macho ’ role but always worried sick in case I was found out . |
| 14 | I just wanted a reason for having been out , in case I was caught coming back . ’ |
| 15 | This can be proved by comments from the accused to the effect ‘ I carried it to use in case I was ever attacked ’ . |
| 16 | When they reached their van they drove off a short distance in case I was observing them . |
| 17 | I found a road away from the beach , and walked very quietly and carefully along , in case I was attacked . |
| 18 | So I dressed and waited in my room , in case I was needed . |
| 19 | Seven o'clock in the morning at seven o'clock till four , I think it was and then er it would be two till ten , you see , but the Stationmaster was always about just in case I was late er you know , not there by seven . |
| 20 | He said to go shopping the next day in case I was being watched . |
| 21 | He put a forefinger to his temple to illustrate thinking , just in case I was n't following . |
| 22 | But you dare n't take the risk of trying it on in case I was calling your bluff and would refuse you . |
| 23 | today I 'll do my hair tomorrow just in case I was going |
| 24 | Let me put it poetically : in Danu I was a garden plant with roots in the soil that would sustain me indefinitely . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , when I lived in Sheffield I was a founder member of the North Midlands Labrador Rescue . |
| 26 | Crossing a muddy field in semi-darkness I am surprised to hear voices , sounding like Canadian voices . |
| 27 | These , these two collectors are , are our main big fund raising events , erm , we , we have got , we have got erm , is that over , we have got over five hundred have n't we in Harlow I 'm , and Bishop 's Stortford have n't we ? |
| 28 | Hello , yeah , Betty 's number , I 'm just having a recording done of me while I 've been in Harlow I 'm having it done now , yeah , er so I ca n't stop alright ? alright , bye , bye . |
| 29 | Get scribbling to me , if you 're 18-21 , female , pretty , and live in Cambridge- I 'm 20 and like almost anything , including rock music and lipstick smudging ! |
| 30 | In literature I was going to offer both British and American authors , both prose and poetry , so that was no problem , though it did mean that I should have to read authors I disliked — Conrad , Hemingway , Woolf , Graham Greene , C.P. Snow — but I leavened this stodgy bunch with those I felt more in sympathy with , though they were not officially on the syllabus — Waugh , Firbank and Forster at their head . |