Example sentences of "i [vb base] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and things like that and it only , it 's only become and really it 's only actually set up as a business school quite recently as well , I mean what in the past ten years or something |
| 2 | ‘ I expect someone in the village will tell — ’ |
| 3 | If that 's the case , I suggest anyone in the past who flunked an O-level exam writes to these people to demand that their E and F failures be upgraded to passes , with honours . |
| 4 | ‘ — I want everyone in the centre of the chamber — ’ |
| 5 | I remember I was going in to record ‘ Cuts Like A Knife ’ and I said , ‘ I 'm taking you guys into the studio , ’ because who I play with on stage , I want them in the studio with me ; I like the idea of having one unit . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I want them in the midday post . |
| 7 | I will give back give back the books that have been signed and I want you in the the section of I just want to point out one or two things before we go on to the next . |
| 8 | I want someone in the square tomorrow , Alan ! ’ |
| 9 | I hold you in the greatest esteem for the peerless courage you displayed in all you undertook . |
| 10 | ‘ I catch you in the act , do I ? ’ |
| 11 | I picture him in the back of his friend 's flat where he is staying . |
| 12 | I , when , when we go down to playschool I walk but because it takes what fifteen minutes to walk into town I put him in the pushchair |
| 13 | Look Charlotte ca n't do anything without being messy , look , the other , the other erm morning I went to school to pick Ben up , er and I put her in the car seat , she 's lovely and clean , and I give her a biscuit , by the time we got |
| 14 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 15 | I put them in the family album your father gave me — you 'll remember the one . |
| 16 | Dressed in intriguingly pinkish-blue Levi 501s ( ‘ I put them in the washing machine with a pink sweatshirt ’ ) and a lemon coloured blouse , her hair 's pulled back into a simple ponytail . |
| 17 | My best dress that she 'd sewed , my blouses with her embroidery : I put them in the hard square leather case . |
| 18 | Well Alex mixed the mix , I put them in the oven and Sue told me get them out or they 'll burn . |
| 19 | Oh yes I put them in the freezer , yes , yes . |
| 20 | I put you in the war zone . |
| 21 | On one occasion , the wife gave me a tin of beans , small kettle , and I put it in the cauldron . |
| 22 | I put it in the barn in a seed tray with a piece of glass on top over the winter and the whole lot came up . |
| 23 | When a kestrel I was looking after died recently , I put it in the freezer so that I can use it for ‘ spares ’ if necessary . |
| 24 | I did n't put my money in the side of a river , I put it in the bank . |
| 25 | As I put it in the course of the argument , and as I sincerely believe , ‘ good parenting involves giving minors as much rope as they can handle without an unacceptable risk that they will hang themselves . ’ |
| 26 | I put the small boat on my shoulders and carried it to the edge of the water , then I put it in the sea . |
| 27 | ‘ I put it in the wastepaper basket , ’ said Morris . |
| 28 | He held out the dice and I put it in the shaker . |
| 29 | You see , I put it in the pond . |
| 30 | I was bringing my own but I put it in the wrong pocket of my coat and it fell through the lining and smashed . " |