Example sentences of "i [verb] in [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I asked in surprise . |
| 2 | I asked in surprise . |
| 3 | I asked in surprise . |
| 4 | I asked in surprise — and with some degree of shock . |
| 5 | I asked in surprise . |
| 6 | I asked in Greek if he had lost anything . |
| 7 | I asked in front of the whole class , and you get out Lorna . |
| 8 | I asked in disbelief . |
| 9 | Holding the door handle , I savoured in advance the small luxury of waking him . |
| 10 | Over the volcanic centre of North Island I gazed in wonder on the mighty peaks and craters , remembering some of the Maori tales of love and feuds and jealousy that surround these mountains . |
| 11 | One such trip was during the first week that Mr. Shipsey started his business — the bakery door was open and Dad and I stood and watched the proceedings , I gazed in amazement as the tin loaves were drawn from the oven , trays of currant buns brought out , brushed with sugar water applied by a three inch brush and doughnuts sprinkled with sugar . |
| 12 | I gazed in admiration at the splendid mellow brick Tudor gatehouses of Trinity and St John 's with their painted coats of arms and their octagonal towers ; at the oriel windows , and the fantastically-patterned corkscrew chimneys ; at the playful Gothic-revival fantasy of the Bridge of Sighs . |
| 13 | At night when storms lashed from the North Sea I gazed in awe at the hill where the Hunmanby Dane had built his wooden castle and yearned to enter the past . |
| 14 | I would n't want readers to think I 've gone soft on freedom to roam following a comment I made in July 's Scottish News . |
| 15 | ‘ I wish to impress on you that the rules I made in London still stand . |
| 16 | As to this , counsel for the council accepted the correctness of the following statement ( so far as it went ) which I made in Powell v McFarlane ( at 471 – 2 ) : " … the animus possidendi involves the intention , in one 's own name and on one 's own behalf to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title if he be not himself the possessor , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . " … |
| 17 | Suppose , for example , that the suggestion I made in Chapter 3 is sound : that there is widespread if tacit agreement that the ultimate point of law is to license and justify state coercion of individuals and groups . |
| 18 | At the end of the summer I shall complete two years as the caretaker of Report ( the fulfilment of a verbal obligation I made in August 1968 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ I still lie awake at night trying to justify the decision I made in Libya . |
| 20 | Yeah do I , do I throw in objections or |
| 21 | I mean in response to the general tone of the argument which was they want us to increase the leadership roles in the , in in local government and in in local communities and local councils we would we thought that |
| 22 | I mean in Italy for example , you know some of the bigger clubs , you know they 're literally run by your Fiats etc. , big very very big companies , and I would say eventually , I 'm not saying in the near future , but certainly eventually , that that might happen here . |
| 23 | I mean in China they families and what have they got ? |
| 24 | I mean in Ireland . |
| 25 | yeah , I mean in Ireland they , fair enough , they call it the unionist party |
| 26 | No , you know you know as you 're going down the corridor before you get to the doors to go down the next set of stairs , I mean in O S D , the last one is er for the P C that does all the man er you know all the duties and things like that , and in his office there 's a great big board with all the vehicles on , and the key 's hung up at the end and who 's got 'em out , and the bottom one is that green van , because he went up and picked 'em up , when I was there . |
| 27 | And I mean in Spain it rains . |
| 28 | Well , well his parents I mean the extreme Protestants are , are on the rise I mean in South America you know I mean the world 's largest Pentecostal Churches are in Lima and Peru and millions are now becoming erm born-again Christians in South America . |
| 29 | I mean in school right |
| 30 | No but I mean in Manchester it was shocking was n't it ? |