Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [pron] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink . |
| 2 | It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’ |
| 3 | It is important that I put myself in a position to be able to give you the best possible advice . |
| 4 | Now that I seek myself in a serpent |
| 5 | I got so tired of having juice pouring into my bag that I take it in a little lemonade bottle now . |
| 6 | I tell them that I have the heart of a small boy and I keep it in a jar on my desk ’ |
| 7 | The cottagers of Pook 's Common used to have grazing rights but I 'm the only one to keep an animal now and I keep mine in a paddock belonging to Tom . |
| 8 | I know , I went , I got some whelks once and that was in Bay , they were lovely whelks and I put 'em in a bucket and er did n't think and now I used to put some flour in with 'em . |
| 9 | And I saw him in a month , and he took the bandage off and me arm flopped of course . |
| 10 | ‘ It takes , they say , seven years to make an electrician ; and I did it in a fortnight . ’ |
| 11 | Finally , one day a boy called Charlie bawled out , ‘ Nigger ! ’ at me and I chased him in a fury . |
| 12 | She barked back , the door slid open wide enough for me to enter and I found myself in a roomful of dames all with rigor mortis of the third-finger-of-the-left-hand . |
| 13 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 14 | and I found myself in a bare street . |
| 15 | But if I met , but then that 's slightly different because if I met someone in a nightclub or something like that then I would be quite wary . |
| 16 | If I bring you in a bottle of concentrate ? |
| 17 | Personally , I have a basic level of awareness which I raise if I find myself in a place or situation which could prove a problem . |
| 18 | Firstly , an emotion may be expressed involuntarily or voluntarily ; if I say something in a ‘ happy ’ way , this may be because I feel happy , or because I want to convey to you the impression that I am happy . |
| 19 | Secondly , an attitude that is expressed could be an attitude towards the listener ( e.g. if I say something in a ‘ friendly ’ way ) , towards what is being said ( e.g. if I say something in a ‘ sceptical ’ or ‘ dubious ’ way ? or towards some external event or situation ( e.g. ‘ regretful ’ or ‘ disapproving ’ ) . |
| 20 | Secondly , an attitude that is expressed could be an attitude towards the listener ( e.g. if I say something in a ‘ friendly ’ way ) , towards what is being said ( e.g. if I say something in a ‘ sceptical ’ or ‘ dubious ’ way ? or towards some external event or situation ( e.g. ‘ regretful ’ or ‘ disapproving ’ ) . |
| 21 | I make , cos I make it in a microwave |
| 22 | Just cos I beat him in a race . |
| 23 | look I said I do n't mind vinyl , I do n't mind good vinyl the only good , the only one that , it was good for the toilet , but I got it in a pack cos we 've got such a small single toilet |
| 24 | ‘ It would have taken forty-five minutes by bus , but I did it in a quarter of an hour by bike , ’ he said . |
| 25 | But I see myself in a different life |
| 26 | I was terrified of him , but I found myself in a horrible Catch 22 situation . |
| 27 | He enjoys it all with equal enthusiasm , and when I visited him in a small hut on Denham airfield where he was instructing ab initio pilots in Cessna 172s I detected the same dedication , pride and affection he has for all his aviation exploits . |
| 28 | When I put her in a small paddock while I muck out , she licks the soil for about ten minutes . |
| 29 | The vast majority of academic writers , as I discovered myself in a trawl of more recent literature , tend to recycle old material , relying upon out-of-date statistics and official reports . |