Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] in " in BNC.

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1 Where I go in my free time is none of your business , you interfering old cow . ’
2 I feel it is necessary to state my own interest : I am a retired mechanical engineer , at one time employed by a major international oil company where I specialised in research on fuel and lubricants for internal combustion engines .
3 Where I worked in the university , if a woman came in covered in bruises , no one would say anything , although we all knew what had happened .
4 In fact , they whisked me off to the Nanking Workers ' Hospital , where I stayed in ‘ solitary confinement ’ until this afternoon .
5 The Men came for me where I huddled in the marram grass and they took me back to the low cage .
6 They were still talking when I continued on my way back to my roomette where I sat in comfortable privacy for a while reading the timetable and also reflecting that although I still had no answers to the old questions , I now had a whole crop of new ones , the most urgent being whether or not Filmer had already known the Youngs were friends of Ezra Gideon .
7 I know exactly who I am and where I stand in the world .
8 where I stand in another life ,
9 I understood that pantun was a form of Malayan poetry , and could not grasp how this might annihilate anything ; but , as he continued , I began to see — or I thought in that dazed state I saw that he believed all human perceptions to be governed by words and , indeed , distorted and ultimately betrayed by words .
10 I have sweet soap here and hot water , and either you wash yourself , all over , or I call in the women to hold you down and scrub you myself .
11 I mean I had nothing at all to do with t' business except I went in partnership with me wife and that .
12 well I 'm , I 'm quite happy , never going out , never see the outside world except I go in the ambulance
13 Neither you nor I meddle in politics , but we live in the world , in society , and involuntarily ranks of people group themselves ,
14 But although I wrote in my diary that I wished I were dead , I never seriously considered death — suicide — as a solution to my problems .
15 I knew the ones she meant ; she meant the square transparent boiled sweets which when she was a child would have been weighed out in pennyworths from a tall glass jar , but although I searched in grocers ’ shops and sweet shops high and low , all I could find were wrapped oval-shaped acid drops .
16 I prefer artwork , although I specialise in fine china and porcelain .
17 Although I concentrate in this chapter on sexual difference and on cultural and racial differences in the last chapter , it is worth remembering that in some contexts they interrelate .
18 HAVING watched almost every game in the World Cup , firstly in my Irish colours , and then in my Scottish colours ( although I live in Dublin , my mother was Scottish ! )
19 Although I slipped in the odd prop or two , and tried to bend briefs towards my interests , on the whole I felt I watched from the sidelines as the plethora of ecology and natural history books of the 1980s appeared .
20 Although I emigrated in 1965 it must be more than 30 years since Keith and I celebrated our birthdays together , ’ he said .
21 ( So much so that , although I believe in God , my great difficulty is accepting that he believes in us ! )
22 Although I suggested in the last chapter that it was easier for Brian Way than for Peter Slade to challenge the formal drama traditions within the schools , it could not be said that either of them had very much impact on what drama meant and still means to interested people outside our educational institutions .
23 But it was only later , when I was forced to admit that , at the time of writing , I had begun to become anorexic again , that I realised in addition how closely the central character 's circumstances resembled those of anorexia nervosa .
24 When confronted with Plymouth Brethren or other sects at the door , my major defence ploy was to claim that I lived in a ‘ Quaker house ’ .
25 ‘ I 'm sure that you 're aware that my mother was American and that I lived in London for many years as a boy when my father was military attaché at the German Embassy .
26 I never expected it to be easy , but I do sometimes wish for those moments that I experienced in the distant past , when the umpire used to say , ‘ game , set and match ’ , and you shook hands before entering the comparative safety of the changing room .
27 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 .
28 This afternoon , he has treated the House to an extraordinary collection of half-truths and inaccuracies , but he has not told us the Labour party 's attitude to the proposals that I identified in the statement .
29 that I fell in love with
30 He told TODAY soon after the tragedy : ‘ My only crime is that I fell in love with another girl . ’
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