Example sentences of "in [noun sg] i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They are my bodyguards , Sir John , my assistants in case I am attacked . ’ |
| 2 | As a young person , I am often quite afraid to go out on the streets in case I am approached by one of these grey-haired vandals and informed how much worse the world is these days or interrogated as to why young people do n't have any respect anymore . |
| 3 | ‘ I should go in case I 'm seen . |
| 4 | And you have to be wary of upsetting me in case I 'm planning on the wholesale destruction of Sarah Chester Fabrics . |
| 5 | Fine , just in case I 'm running over a little bit . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's a police whistle in case I 'm attacked while I 'm collecting the week 's takings . ’ |
| 7 | But you dare n't take the risk of trying it on in case I was calling your bluff and would refuse you . |
| 8 | I was a little unsettled by the fury of the blizzard , and hugged the top of the ridge all the way along , but avoided taking in the top due west of Cairn Gorm in case I was blown off my feet . |
| 9 | I found a road away from the beach , and walked very quietly and carefully along , in case I was attacked . |
| 10 | So I dressed and waited in my room , in case I was needed . |
| 11 | today I 'll do my hair tomorrow just in case I was going |
| 12 | I just wanted a reason for having been out , in case I was caught coming back . ’ |
| 13 | When they reached their van they drove off a short distance in case I was observing them . |
| 14 | I was always on my guard , always playing the ‘ macho ’ role but always worried sick in case I was found out . |
| 15 | In literature I was going to offer both British and American authors , both prose and poetry , so that was no problem , though it did mean that I should have to read authors I disliked — Conrad , Hemingway , Woolf , Graham Greene , C.P. Snow — but I leavened this stodgy bunch with those I felt more in sympathy with , though they were not officially on the syllabus — Waugh , Firbank and Forster at their head . |
| 16 | If I want to count how many chairs there are in my college , I have little problem about deciding which of the many objects in college I am going to include in my count . |
| 17 | ‘ Or in future I 'm hoping that on three days a week when ye feel like it . ’ |
| 18 | of writes : WITH the recent Californian earthquakes in mind I was wondering if you knew in what year most earthquakes had occurred . |
| 19 | ‘ It would be nice to grab a few goals and with that in mind I 'm using all three of our main strikers . ’ |
| 20 | You know , the decision whether we were gon na go back to work because of these threatening letters was taken by the forty well fifty members of the lodge , so in effect I was sacked by people who had since returned to work , but you know that 's how it should be . |
| 21 | On the winter evening in question I was sharing a bottle of champagne with Toby and we were , inevitably , talking golf . |
| 22 | On the day in question I was driven down to Wapping where the meeting was to take place at St Peter 's School . |
| 23 | In return I was trying to grasp the basics of Swedish , whose inflexions and vocabulary I found hard to manage . |
| 24 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
| 25 | When I arrived in Þingeyri I was expecting this , the second-biggest town in the area , to be a place worth seeing . |
| 26 | He said I remembered last night he said if I was in bed I was gon na get wet . |
| 27 | South Africa Spain , Australia and New Zealand have been in fashion I was told . |
| 28 | more through magazines than I did at school , because in school I was taught nothing about pleasure , it was all very biological with a diagram of the male and the female , exactly what happened , there was nothing about er , sexually transmitted diseases , pleasure or abortion , contraception , nothing mentioned , only the mere basics . |
| 29 | In fact I am developing a revealing , but ultimately frustrating line of correspondence with the Welsh Office and I would be grateful if you could take a look at the enclosed letter copies . |
| 30 | In fact I am finding it difficult to establish the exact terms of reference for this study , given that a number of related studies are already underway . |