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

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1 White Stilton is a very young , immature Stilton and does not compare to the traditional blue variety , although I like it in salads and for cooking , where its slightly sharp flavour is penetrating .
2 ‘ How you have heard of my story , I do not know , for it lies unfinished upstairs , although I began it in May .
3 Although I left him in no doubts about my opinion of his behaviour over the past few weeks , I was n't quite as brutal with him as I might have been .
4 A cream-coloured dress of mine got covered with rust and , although I soaked it in biological liquid , it did n't get rid of the stain .
5 The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink .
6 It was just lucky that I spotted it in time and did something about it at such an early age , or God knows what the child might have turned into , with Saul 's soul possessing him .
7 I , I just put it on his dinner , cos there 's no way that I squirt it in his mouth , I 'd probably choke him .
8 Yeah , I never though of that and I doubt if I get it now , all I think was well I know that I got it in the magazine rack
9 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 . ’
10 I got so tired of having juice pouring into my bag that I take it in a little lemonade bottle now .
11 ‘ You see that I had you in my mind ! ’
12 As my husband was then a consultant there , and involved in research in rheumatology , it was only natural that I joined him in the research field .
13 Also that I described them in car on way home as five most grotesque examples of humanity this side of the swamps of Lousiana .
14 I would say : if you want to talk of my thinking it in such circumstances then the least misleading thing to say is that I think it in saying it .
15 There seems no point in saying that I love you in spite of everything because that only seems to irritate you for reasons best known to yourself and which you choose neither to explain nor comment on .
16 I can give the hon. Gentleman the undertaking — it is of the sort that I gave him in Committee — that I believe that many things should be done with the extra resources that we shall have , and in the context of administrative matters the care of records is relevant .
17 Because there were , there were easily three lists of influence on referrals that you need to be attuned to , that I gave you in that one erm praise , give a bit of praise to my wife because all I 'm proud of crafty , I thought , you know , why did n't you say that was a beautiful brief .
18 ‘ I was n't going to unroll the damn things , ’ continued Lydia , ‘ so I banged them in the oven , humming insouciantly the while and served them up all bubbling hot .
19 I fear it will go out of control so I release it in tears either by myself or with someone I love and trust .
20 ‘ Until recently , ’ Carl said , ‘ there were no provisions for new ideas , so I kept them in my files until a need arose .
21 I could not find a reason for leaving him , so I accompanied him in silence .
22 ‘ Your tea is ruined so I threw it in the bin .
23 Once I met him in the West End and we went to the pictures . ’
24 Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled .
25 It it 's a part of the county council I 've always taken a considerable interest in , and I support them in all their efforts .
26 ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’
27 ‘ Matthews and I got them in town , Dr Streeter .
28 but er Barry come off her husband and he said oh you going down oh I says aye , he saves us fifty pence and I got you in your bread and a pie , right , er I want the erm , did Billy take the dishes up ?
29 It was my first piece , and I got it in my head immediately ; I had been very depressed and I think he saved my life . ’
30 and I ordered it in November , it finally came in February .
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