Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FERDINAND … . my imagination will carry me To see her in the shameful act of sin … . |
| 2 | and things like that and it only , it 's only become and really it 's only actually set up as a business school quite recently as well , I mean what in the past ten years or something |
| 3 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
| 4 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 5 | I found myself in the curious position of being the sponsor minister of the industry and also the minister ultimately answerable for health service spending . |
| 6 | I stayed there for a week in January and for once I found myself in the overworked brochure cliche : Marrakech is a city of contrasts and a fascinating blend of the old and new . |
| 7 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge . |
| 8 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge |
| 9 | The WAAF suddenly wound the chair back and I found myself in the semi-prone position with the white bulk looming over me . |
| 10 | ( Once , taking the night train from London to Paris , I found myself in the locked sleeping compartment of a locked coach in a locked hold beneath the waterline on a cross-channel ferry ; I did n't think of Jonah at the time , but perhaps my panic was related to his . |
| 11 | The chair was comfortable but low and I found myself in the disconcerting position of having to look up at him while we spoke . |
| 12 | By chance , I found myself in the royal apartments , a long , polished gallery where the freshly waxed wood winked in the sunlight and the walls shimmered with the exquisite tapestries hung there . |
| 13 | But afterwards , I found myself in the dim bathroom of my hut staring at a haunted face . |
| 14 | Without knowing how , I found myself in the smart medieval quarter again . |
| 15 | When I made my way down its spiral staircase I found myself in the main thoroughfare of the town where I was born . |
| 16 | I caught it in the other hand . |
| 17 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
| 18 | I hold you in the greatest esteem for the peerless courage you displayed in all you undertook . |
| 19 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 20 | My best dress that she 'd sewed , my blouses with her embroidery : I put them in the hard square leather case . |
| 21 | No I put it in the last two times . |
| 22 | I was bringing my own but I put it in the wrong pocket of my coat and it fell through the lining and smashed . " |
| 23 | ( Have I got it in the first place ? |
| 24 | I kick her in the mental shins . |
| 25 | I ca n't stand it , I hear it in the early hours . ’ |
| 26 | Notice what Jesus says in verse seven , he says , I tell you in the same way there 'll be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents , than over ninety nine righteous persons who need no repentance . |
| 27 | I tell you in the same way , there will be joy in heaven over one sinner that repents . |
| 28 | ‘ I tell you in the Welsh town of Abercwmboi [ the accent was bogus Welsh ] |
| 29 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 30 | ‘ 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 |