Example sentences of "i [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
| 2 | Because I asked in the other classes , three or four American students , and I asked them the same question . |
| 3 | There is a perception amongst informed people in the community that there may well be a shortage of long stay beds in Leicestershire and you do need to bear in mind that the National Health Service is increasingly going down the road of not keeping people in hospitals longer than they have to because hospitals are perceived as being very , a very expensive way of providing beds and you have to take that into account because that 's a fairly clear national policy and you are likely to see an acceleration in that process from what I read in the national press . |
| 4 | To those who point to Britain 's right , under the Maastricht Treaty on European Union , to choose not to be part of the Single Currency , I recommend a passing glance at a passage in a speech I made in the closing stages of the second reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill on 21 May 1992 . |
| 5 | The comparison that I made in The Independent newspaper was based on what the Secretary of State 's own review had recommended as the number required to run the system . |
| 6 | That afternoon she and I devised in the small front room of our lodgings ( pliant landlady , audience of children ) a double act : the Carruthers Sisters . |
| 7 | But I mean in the actual downstairs , in the living room |
| 8 | er present work , and so I mean , you , you , could say we 'll take it , er two or three hundred complaints from London , and buy time I suppose , erm to see if if if er work up here had picked up or natural wastage went or what ever , erm , if it did n't go up then , I mean in the long term , erm one could n't envisage keeping on with more staff than what 's thought to be a fairly generously assessed formula anyway , says we need . |
| 9 | Yes it 's great , I mean in the first year lecture on Tuesday erm in the break I gave them in the middle of it the the corridor was like thick with tobacco smoke y'know you could hardly |
| 10 | I mean in the neural network terms we just use a summation function . |
| 11 | But I mean in the fifties , sixties |
| 12 | there , I mean in the older days they used to have a li little railway and they used t used more or less take all the sewage on to his land and there used to be couple little trucks where you tip over and they 'd be one down and one up , on and he , old he used to , used to be his , put on his land . |
| 13 | I think companies well in fact B and Q erm recently announced that er not recently I mean in the last eighteen months they 've started to have their er stores erm |
| 14 | Er , I mean in the olden days , they used , they they usually the sent to the colonies or , sent into the army or or into religion , were n't they . |
| 15 | As I argued in the previous chapter , boxing was the first sport in which institutional arrangements permitted a black presence : almost every weight division produced black boxers of such brilliance that they were virtually without equals ( see Henderson , 1949 , 1970 ; Maher , 1968 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ I lived in the same house as him once . |
| 17 | ‘ I fought in the Holy Land for the Cross , and in England for Edward against the rebels ; I have founded monasteries , supported Holy Mother Church so God would exalt my family . |
| 18 | ‘ Burt and I met in the early Seventies and became really good friends . |
| 19 | The women I met in the refuge , and others I met in the first few weeks of my journey , stated their own investment in this book : they did n't want to be objects observed , they wanted to be its subjects . |
| 20 | Meanwhile I sit in the spacious bar-restaurant , in this drool parlour , in this fancy vomitorium . |
| 21 | After breakfast , I sit in the outgoing waiting-room , facing the door , with Jackie and the women of yesterday morning clutching their knees and their overnight bags , looking pale . |
| 22 | I sit in the same seat as before , just by the window . |
| 23 | ‘ Before I got in the first team , ’ he says , ‘ I was asking myself over and over again : ‘ can I really do it ? ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It certainly made an unusual change from cranberry sauce and was one of the most memorable tastes I experienced in the New World . |
| 26 | A coherent school policy on Standard English can be based on the different views of the main aims of English teaching which I listed in the previous chapter. : |
| 27 | But then I found in the same week in the relatively liberal UK magazine Time Out several references to women as ‘ chicks ’ and ‘ broads ’ . |
| 28 | I demonstrated in the previous chapter that the use of discursive metaphor causes simultaneity and association to replace causality and linear chronology as the compositional principles of the novel , allowing changes of scene in mid-sentence and the coexistence of a number of often incompatible signifieds in a given signifier . |
| 29 | I have been dead for a long time and by day I circle the huge air above the hills and by night I sleep in the quiet rock , as quiet as the rock , and the little worms mean consolation as they eat me . |
| 30 | I plug in the short-wave radio and tune it to the radio-microphone , then I leave the receiver on the table and walk out to stick the bug on the inside of the front door . |