Example sentences of "in [noun] i [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You probably all knew this … but just in case I thought I 'd let you know . |
| 2 | I would n't want to try smoking just in case I liked it cos I would n't want to . |
| 3 | He was a guest on This is Your Life , and I introduced him first as Peggy Ashdown , and then had to concentrate hard in case I called him Paddy Ashcroft … |
| 4 | He went on , ‘ I dared not come on too heavily in case I frightened you off . |
| 5 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity , and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I knew it was sight at first love . |
| 6 | In reply I sent him a cutting from the catalogue of a well known UK mail order equipment company . |
| 7 | Even in disguise I knew her at once , for a truly sensual woman can not disguise herself from my perceptions once I have seen her . ’ |
| 8 | It was back in February I saw you is n't it ? |
| 9 | From the outset , I wanted to help you out against Novotný , and immediately in January I asked you : Are his people threatening you ? |
| 10 | Yes , in poetry I felt I could stand at least as his equal , and indeed what started off that day as a sort of master-pupil relationship soon became a strange kind of poetic collaboration , in which we played equal parts . |
| 11 | sale in Thurmaston I got them . |
| 12 | Back in Hampstead I left them and went on home . |
| 13 | ‘ In Andernesse I saw it , and sent my Women to fetch it for me . |
| 14 | In use I found it to be very acceptable ( to quote Prime Minister Major ) and it ran all the DOS and Windows packages I threw at it — and here 's the rub . |
| 15 | From an early stage in fieldwork I found it necessary to make a special index to notes which recorded what Zuwaya said about the past , for it was clear that these references and descriptions were recurrent themes . |
| 16 | In turn I told her a little about my own background , as though we were out on a first date . |
| 17 | One night in bed I thought I heard knocking at the cottage door . |
| 18 | Saturday night and stayed with his friends like and I , I and I did n't like it , I could I was lying in bed I thought I heard noises and all and I had all the windows |
| 19 | When we had eaten in silence I asked him what the trouble was . |
| 20 | While he was in school I gave him every chance I could to play before an audience , both in the school and in the local YMCA . |
| 21 | That 's why when I ran London in April I said I was n't feeling comfortable . |
| 22 | Why should n't Fanshawe just have said to his wife , ‘ This young lady has missed her last train and since she lives in London I said we 'd give her a lift ’ ? |
| 23 | In fact I knew her for a tough-minded young woman with feminist leanings and rather more interest in student politics than would be helpful in her academic work . |
| 24 | But in fact I knew you much better . |
| 25 | Eva made no effort to have us talk to each other , Shadwell and I ; in fact I felt she wanted to discourage conversation . |
| 26 | In fact I had it for six months and I never did plug it into an amplifier ; I just used it in the dressing room . ’ |
| 27 | In fact I had it six for talking in class , I remember very vividly having six strokes of the strap on my hand . |
| 28 | In fact I had it in mind that she might be trained up to one of the women 's auxiliary services which justified themselves so splendidly in the last war — the WRENS , I mean , of course . |
| 29 | to get rid of the abscess , oh god it was painful , it really was , in fact I had it once , I had a load of penicillin , did n't finish the penicillin and it came back again and they had to give me a stronger drug then for five days |
| 30 | In fact I took her out a couple of times myself when I found that Angela was occupied with someone else . |