Example sentences of "i [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I became in a conscious way feminist I pondered long what it meant that a woman could not in such a way depict Christ as being in her image . |
| 2 | Be that as it may , I perceive in your decision to purchase these shorts — you did purchase these shorts , did n't you ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If I want to cry , I hide in the toilet and feel desperate ’ , was a common reaction if I asked someone where she cried . |
| 4 | I hide in the bedroom , pretending to work on my lines . |
| 5 | I asked in surprise . |
| 6 | I asked in disbelief . |
| 7 | I asked in the beginning . |
| 8 | I asked in surprise . |
| 9 | I asked in surprise . |
| 10 | I asked in Greek if he had lost anything . |
| 11 | I asked in what I hoped was more or less a normal voice . |
| 12 | I asked in some surprise . |
| 13 | Because I asked in the other classes , three or four American students , and I asked them the same question . |
| 14 | I asked in surprise — and with some degree of shock . |
| 15 | I asked in surprise . |
| 16 | I asked in a you-don't-have-to-tell-me-anything-about-Carol voice , with an I'm-on-your-side sort of sigh . |
| 17 | Cos I asked in here a few weeks ago and they said . |
| 18 | I asked in front of the whole class , and you get out Lorna . |
| 19 | Holding the door handle , I savoured in advance the small luxury of waking him . |
| 20 | Anyway , in the course of these preliminary studies I succeeded in identifying certain exceedingly small but specific bodies in genes . |
| 21 | I shook the embryos rather violently during their two-cell stage , and in several instances , I succeeded in killing one of the cells , while the other one was not damaged … |
| 22 | So with a series of jerky motions I pumped that handle , but all I succeeded in producing was the sound of a set of bagpipes . |
| 23 | It was by chance and with the support of a visiting teacher of drawing who also happened to be a lecturer at Goldsmiths College that I succeeded in getting a place at art school , the first and last totally blind student to have ever done so in Britain . |
| 24 | So I succeeded in training her to feed on the fist . |
| 25 | I was lucky : I succeeded in getting ticks . |
| 26 | Finally I succeeded in persuading her to try . |
| 27 | The weather being too boisterous to admit of a boat being lowered , I endeavoured to capture the bird with a hook and line , and the ordinary sea-hooks being too large for the purpose , I was in the act of selecting a hook from my stock of salmon-flies , when a sudden gust of wind blew my hooks , and a piece of parchment ten inches long by six inches wide on which they were lying , overboard into the sea , and I was obliged to give up the attempt for that day ; on the next I succeeded in capturing the bird with a hook baited with fat , and the reader may judge of my surprise when on opening the stomach I there found the piece of parchment , so completely uninjured that it was dried and again restored to its original use. , |
| 28 | Independently of a great number of new Birds I succeeded in procuring the nests and eggs of at least two thirds of the species inhabiting that interesting region . |
| 29 | But in the course of developing our case we have found no grounds upon which I could have validly chosen my present ends except that they are the ones to which I spontaneously tended when most aware ; on what grounds then could I persist in preferring these ends to a further advance in awareness which would undermine them ? |
| 30 | Because if I load in You can do it it because when I when we originally loaded this , |