Example sentences of "[be] what i [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what I had in my heart : revenge . |
| 2 | Here 's what I wrote in the obituary I did for him in The Guardian : |
| 3 | Oh that 's what I got in the shop . |
| 4 | well that 's what I say in all tablets and that if you take 'em for long you 'll become addictive to them |
| 5 | Well it 's the T words here , that 's what I used in there . |
| 6 | ‘ Yeah , that 's what I do in life , I look after my own . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ This look is what I had in mind . ’ |
| 8 | So our having the tape-recorder is affecting the quality of Mrs Padmore 's life — which , however , has an indirect effect on the quality of our life , given the I think not unreasonable premise that an improvement in the quality of someone else 's life offers us some kind of pleasure or satisfaction , or at any rate spares us discomfort or guilt ; though whether this is what I had in mind when I borrowed the tape-recorder this morning I think unlikely . |
| 9 | That is what I have in my kitchen and I find that it is very simple to lift and scrub the tiles that take the most punishment , like the ones by the cooker . |
| 10 | I should like to be something more than a drill-master for competent philologists — the generation of present-day teachers , the care of the growing younger generation , this is what I have in mind . " |
| 11 | That is what I love in you … |
| 12 | You can either type your data into this form — which is what I did in this instance — or you can import data from an Excel or Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet or from a Delimited ASCII file . |
| 13 | Another part of me is racist , probably because I 've hardly met any colored people and all I know of them is what I read in papers and see on television , where black people are usually talked of in terms of numbers and presumed guilty until proved innocent . |
| 14 | All the police knew of that — was what I put in my book — not a word of praise . |