Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [that] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of each day my pillow was so soaked in saliva that I had to wring it out on the floor . ’ |
| 2 | My whole understanding of the human world requires that in thought and imagination I am constantly shifting between and responding from different viewpoints , here or there , remembered or anticipated , individual or collective , my own or someone else 's , hypothetical , fictional , or simply indefinite ; it is only in action that I have to settle in a present viewpoint , whether personal ( ‘ I ’ ) or social ( ‘ We ’ ) . |
| 3 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 4 | It was with this in mind that I came joyously across the story of Stephen Eastham this week . |
| 5 | But before you go rushing off to the river to catch a netful of chub , bear in mind that I have said only that chub are easy to catch compared to most other species . |
| 6 | I would like your advice as to the method and position of fitting the temperature sensor unit , bearing in mind that I want to retain originality . |
| 7 | And should that day come — bear in mind that I say " should it come " , not " when it comes " — who shall blame them ? |
| 8 | I did n't spot any that er that were glaringly , do bear in mind that I read this quite late last night after I got in from that , that meeting I went |
| 9 | ‘ Bear in mind that I gave my evidence after Blissett had been charged by the FA for a serious breach of the laws of the game — and the experienced commission of inquiry , which conducted a rigorous investigation into the incident , cleared him . |
| 10 | I said in Committee that I had an open mind on the matter . |
| 11 | If my son and my daughter have n't taken up the same interest in art that I have , I see no reason that they should have , and I see no reason to tell them they ought to study this or they ought to do that . |
| 12 | It was only when I was almost in despair that I recalled having seen a letter written by a knitter from overseas , about an easy way to make cables and it seemed a pleasant way to take a break by referring back a few months until I found the letter from — you 've guessed it — June Shaw . |
| 13 | Too difficult ! ’ and oaths in Arabic that I did not understand . |
| 14 | ‘ I am getting the strength in depth that I need , ’ added Perkins . |
| 15 | Thank you to the person who arrived unknowingly on my doorstep and gave me a really sympathetic cuddle while I cried for 10 minutes ( ? ) in relief that I had misunderstood the doctor . |
| 16 | But , by and large , and Wanda was an exception , all the things in life that I 've most enjoyed have been the things that I 've been paid really very little for , and most of the things that I 've been paid most for have been the least interesting . |
| 17 | An interest in music that I had rather forgotten about until the thought of Millie in the lane reminded me . |
| 18 | I 'm not so silly and in love that I do n't know that . |
| 19 | I was so caught up in my plurals or situations in hardship that I did n't notice that the subject in more senses than one is a singular lack , and the verb should be is and not are , therefore I must ask the indulgence of the general assembly to change the verb . |
| 20 | With things like art nouveau and Edwardian furniture , when David started buying them , I went and got books to get my act together in order that I knew what he was into , but with drugs , I did n't know , added to which David was very secretive and for a long time I was n't aware that he was having a problem , not necessarily from cocaine addiction , which everybody loves to tell you is not addictive , but it is in terms of the fact that you rely on feeling up to cope — you just become more and more paranoid . |
| 21 | As the days went by , I did start to try the newspapers and job centres again — anywhere in fact that I thought might find me either a job or a home . |
| 22 | It was ironic in retrospect that I had to travel half way round the globe to get to know working class men from my own back yard . |