Example sentences of "i [vb past] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked in some surprise . |
| 2 | ‘ I realised in this day and age that people are looking for something that wee bit different , and we found with the long spell of bad weather we 've had over the summer months that people want to stay inside , ’ explained Mr Nelson . |
| 3 | On the , on the , on the corner of the street under the lamppost , we 'd , a family named used to live on the corner of Street and Street I lived in that house , but they used to just congregate on the , on the street corners . |
| 4 | ‘ If I failed in some aspects it was Tom Bradley who failed . |
| 5 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 6 | I got in this chemist in the shops there did n't I ? |
| 7 | I found in that chemist shop when I was looking there er , refill Nutrene . |
| 8 | Their reward could be to find ( as I found in another country ) that chemistry is the most popular subject in the curriculum . |
| 9 | Earlier this year I reported in this column the Institute 's decision to terminate its contract with the Institute of Purchasing and Supply and to form its own Secretariat . |
| 10 | I did n't entirely freak out , I just dabbled : I dabbled in all sorts of things . ’ |
| 11 | Well I mean one of the women I spoke to that I mentioned in that piece felt strongly that schools were laying too much on children in terms of taking responsibility for how the world is , and she erm mentioned in particular erm the kind of ecological issues that lots of schools and teachers are taking up now and erm children are becoming involved in projects for , you know , recycle this that and the other and there 's a book , is n't there , ‘ The Children 's Green Guide ’ or something . |
| 12 | I MENTIONED in this space recently a friendship agency named Handidate which caters for disabled people . |
| 13 | I think that it would be helpful now if I described in some detail what the effect of the banding arrangements will be , as there has been considerable misunderstanding of the provisions . |
| 14 | He was a strong young man , and I delighted in that strength : he once signed a letter to me ‘ Your wild boy of Aveyron ’ . |
| 15 | You know the first time I came in this country cos it was not decimal yet |
| 16 | I did mine when I came in this morning . |
| 17 | There 's one in the window I 'm just gon na have a look , cos I never had noticed when I came in this morning |
| 18 | I was an incurable romantic and yearned for a romantic friendship before it would be too late , for I believed in those days that romantic friendship was possible only in youth . |
| 19 | These people , one of whom was a whiskered old man , carried guns which they let off frequently , rode horses at terrifying speeds across an arid landscape similar to the one I played in each day , while breathless crashing music and a small dog pursued everyone everywhere they went . |
| 20 | Is the weather as bad as people keep telling me because it was Okay when I drove in this morning . |
| 21 | The only contract for endorsing a product I obtained in those days was for Churchman 's cigarettes . ’ |
| 22 | I arrived in that polling booth all ready to vote the straight Republican ticket . |
| 23 | I suffered a dislocation as acute as when I arrived in this country . |
| 24 | I forgot in that second what it was |
| 25 | Until this point , of course , I had believed myself quite alone and I turned in some surprise . |
| 26 | I pressed in another coin . |
| 27 | She looked at me and said that when I walked in this morning . |
| 28 | Most of the square-skulled men I followed in this way in the streets turned out to have very macho faces , conventionally handsome , proud , even disdainful , as if they felt they alone were the lords and masters of the earth . |
| 29 | I worked in that industry for 30 years . |
| 30 | I worked in all conditions and travelled to other locations during daylight ’ . |