Example sentences of "in a [noun] i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a word I found them inadequate , not to say hopeless . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't worry , Cawthorne deserves everything that 's coming to him , ’ said McInnes in a tone I bet he 'd never used on Sorrel . |
| 3 | But in a sense I mean I can erm I mean I agree with everything you 've said , erm but er when Murdoch took over the Sun I mean the Sun was selling , at one point was selling about four million copies which is |
| 4 | I mean i i i in a sense I think he was , he 's been criticized unfairly for , for this because he he , he copped all the blame for absolute egalitarianism , whereas in fact if , if you look at the details behind it he was aware of the dangers of encroachment on the middle peasant and was warning against that and saying look this should n't happen . |
| 5 | Quite for me it depends on i i in a sense I think it 's perhaps more subliminal . |
| 6 | Can I ask you before inviting you to speak to us in two or three minutes on this , say that the recommendation , in a sense I think it has been overtaken , in that there is now under fifteen a the very distinct possibility of a transfer of a very technical post from the pollution section by the end of the year . |
| 7 | In a way I knew it in a way I had |
| 8 | In a way I wish we had n't re-released that song because it 's not that strong . |
| 9 | In a way I wish you had pursued it . ’ |
| 10 | Some people might think I was approached by Harper Collins with a check for half a million pounds and asked to write the book — in a way I wish I had been . |
| 11 | In a way I wish he had done . |
| 12 | I mean for me I I 've gone beyond hoping in a way I mean it 's just a question of keeping going from week to week and I do n't know how to measure success . |
| 13 | In a way I suppoise it was quite fortunate as we would have been without speed and wallace , who have now got a longer recovery period — as have all the other cripples that we 're carrying . |
| 14 | In a way I blamed her for it , and to start with I think I hated her . |
| 15 | In a way I enjoy it . |
| 16 | As a Methodist minister , Father was a performer of a very special sort , and in a way I guess I just swapped congregations for audiences . |
| 17 | You know , in a way I think she was just bewildered by how long the human young hang about the nest . |
| 18 | I mean in a way I think it 's probably the best thing that 's happened to me for a while cos I could see myself see the thing is I can I was n't ever planning to be here for even six months . |
| 19 | You 're a liar and I 'm gon na have a look in the mirror in a minute I know it ai n't sticking up . |
| 20 | His approach to clients was summed up in a remark I overheard him make to a colleague at the bar : ‘ You know me — I believe everybody ’ . |
| 21 | I said look here , you 've put me in a job I reckon I 've done it alright , the only thing is it 's me that is the worse off now . |
| 22 | And put it in bulk tanks you ken taking milk away down in a tank I mean we used to take it away in cans . |